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Silakos
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August 15, 2017
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Can After Effects take advantage of my gpu? (ATI Mobility Radeon 530v)

  • August 15, 2017
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Here are the exact model of the gpu and the current drivers it runs with. As you can see After Effects cannot take advantage of it currently.

Some additional information of my sytem are:

  • Winowns 7 Ultimate 64 bit
  • After Effects cc 2015.0
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Correct answer Szalam

After Effects can't use AMD GPUs to accelerate the ray-traced renderer as you are showing in your screenshot, but that feature is irrelevant to what you are doing. It just makes 3d geometry out of layers in AE. It has nothing to do with any of the effects you say you use.

Also, the ray-traced renderer is considered an obsolete feature. If you want to make 3d geometry out of AE layers, it is recommended to use the C4D renderer instead (again though, this has nothing to do with what you say you're doing, so in your case, continuing to use the classic renderer is ideal).

Anyway, for both reasons (irrelevant/obsolete), I wouldn't worry about it.

Recent versions of AE can use AMD GPUs (and NVIDIA ones) to accelerate some of the native effects, but the setting for making sure the GPU is working for them is in an entirely different spot (it's in Project Settings). Each release of AE brings more and more to the GPU. Currently, Fractal Noise, Gaussian Blur, Fast Box Blur, Lumetri Color, Sharpen, Brightness and Contrast, Find Edges, Glow, Hue/Saturation, Invert, and Tint can be GPU-accelerated.

Honestly, the things you are talking about using in AE, you can do in Premiere Pro. It's probably faster there.

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
August 15, 2017

No and no. CUDA only runs on nVidia Hardware. It's a moot point, though. Your hardware is rather week to begin, the 3D raytracer is deprecated and beyond that very little stuff in AE is actually GPU-accelerated.

Mylenium

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    SilakosAuthor
    Participant
    August 15, 2017

    Well as this: AMD vs Nvidia for Video Rendering - Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder - YouTube  video explains there is not a significant difference between nvidia and amd in terms of perforamce. But there is a huge difference if you are not using a gpu vs using one.

    The effects I primarily use are:

    • levels
    • detail preserving upscale
    • fast blur
    • a lot of time remapping
    • darken blending mode

    I plan on buying this laptop next: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming Laptop - Intel i7 Quad-Core | Dell United States

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    areshang
    Participant
    August 25, 2017

    After Effects can't use AMD GPUs to accelerate the ray-traced renderer as you are showing in your screenshot, but that feature is irrelevant to what you are doing. It just makes 3d geometry out of layers in AE. It has nothing to do with any of the effects you say you use.

    Also, the ray-traced renderer is considered an obsolete feature. If you want to make 3d geometry out of AE layers, it is recommended to use the C4D renderer instead (again though, this has nothing to do with what you say you're doing, so in your case, continuing to use the classic renderer is ideal).

    Anyway, for both reasons (irrelevant/obsolete), I wouldn't worry about it.

    Recent versions of AE can use AMD GPUs (and NVIDIA ones) to accelerate some of the native effects, but the setting for making sure the GPU is working for them is in an entirely different spot (it's in Project Settings). Each release of AE brings more and more to the GPU. Currently, Fractal Noise, Gaussian Blur, Fast Box Blur, Lumetri Color, Sharpen, Brightness and Contrast, Find Edges, Glow, Hue/Saturation, Invert, and Tint can be GPU-accelerated.

    Honestly, the things you are talking about using in AE, you can do in Premiere Pro. It's probably faster there.


    Hi,Szalam,I have the same issue,I just brought an iMAC 27'' 2017 wiht AMD Radeon Pro 580 graphic card.

    As you say, if i want to do some 3D geometry works/layers on AE, the only way to perform better is to use the C4D renderer instead?( As you kown, without Cuda accelerated, the i5 CPU's renderer is terrible to  deal with the 3D geometry works, very very very slow...)

    Is it sure that AE would never to continuously update the new AMD graphic card( AMD Radeon Pro 580) for the ray-traced renderer accelerated.

    Look forward to your reply! And sorry for my bad english. =)

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