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New mac pro and open cl support

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January 1, 2014
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Hi,

I was wondering what the low down is on the benefits of using the new mac pro with it's ati cards with open cl?

I've looked around and can't see any recent articles about it, I'm assumng that Adobe will capitilse on open cl but not sure of any details...

Thanks for any info on this.

Spencer

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tallscot

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After Effects CC 2015 still doesn't utilize GPU. Sad.

I've switched to Apple's Motion. It uses the dual GPU in my Mac Pro and screams. Even particles play in real time with no RAM preview render needed.

RiderProd

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hello

I just bought a mac pro to pro apple store.

I am over performance in After Effect

A computer € 7,000 is not working 100% in after effect ???? !!!!

Do you have a solution propose to me ???

NordicFilmworks

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RiderProd wrote:

hello

I just bought a mac pro to pro apple store.

I am over performance in After Effect

A computer € 7,000 is not working 100% in after effect ???? !!!!

Do you have a solution propose to me ???

What's the performance issue? RAM allocation? Crashing? etc...

NordicFilmworks

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Wow... Almost a year later and Adobe still has no solution for Mac users other than incredibly slow, buggy, and relatively unsupported GPUs. Maybe by 2017 Adobe will support a massive amount of their paying customers on mac...

ECBowen

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Unfortunately there are not nearly as many Mac users versus PC/Windows users so the market share puts the Mac users at a disadvantage for R&D dollars. Along with this Apple's philosophy has changed from High performance pro work to good enough generalist use. People staying Mac now are simply doing so for the OS. The performance and applications available no longer carry the platform.

Eric

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NordicFilmworks

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Sorry, nope. Realtime rendering basically with Nuke all day today. This is an Adobe issue not supporting advanced hardware.

Todd_Kopriva

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Premiere Pro already uses OpenCL for a lot, as does Photoshop.

This page has some commentary on OpenCL and After Effects:

http://adobe.ly/AE_2013_requests

SpencerCarpenterAuthor

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Thanks for the info. It appears there is little consideration for open cl at present. Could I ask, do you expect further integration of open cl to have a major impact on the speed of rendering many of the effects? I know fcpx is making good use of it, can we expect to see similar performance improvements?

I know mavericks has updated open gl. Does this then mean a new Mac Pro will already see great performance increases even without much open cl support?

Thanks again for the info.

Spencer

Todd_Kopriva

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> It appears there is little consideration for open cl at present.

That is entirely the wrong conclusion to draw.

As I said, Premiere Pro and Photoshop use OpenCL extensively. And the page that I pointed you to only said that OpenCL couldn't ever be used for one very narrow thing; it then went on to say that the After Effects team is looking into ways to use non-vendor-specific technologies like OpenGL and OpenCL to accelerate as much as possible.

For the current version of After Effects, nearly everything is done on the CPU, so the GPU is a nearly irrelevant consideration (with the exceptions described here).

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