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Elvin.C
Elvin.C
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June 20, 2014
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GPU for After Effects

  • June 20, 2014
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I need to know the certified GPU card for AE GPU-accelerate,because your System requirements about After Effects was not written clearly.And I still don't understand why the certified GPU for premiere and AE is not same??

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    shameemk74274403
    Participating Frequently
    March 7, 2018

    I was looking the reviews of amd radeon hd 7540d driver which compatible with Windows 10. It’s integrated by the GPU and it also have strong relation with graphics card. We can say that if we install latest version of driver then we can increase the performance of the PC good.

    P.M.B
    P.M.B
    Legend
    March 8, 2018

    You probably want to go with an Nvidia GPU.  They work better with alot of different CG applications..

    ~Gutterfish
    Steve Gaskell
    Steve Gaskell
    Participant
    April 18, 2015

    The Adobe help document on Improving Performance for After Effects states that GPU can be used for other processes besides Ray Tracing.  So to say it only impact Ray Tracing is incorrect.  All types of rendering will be improved by GPU processing.  See this excerpt from that document:

    After Effects Help | Improve performance

    • Make sure that your system includes a display card that supports OpenGL 2.0 or later. Though After Effects can function without it, OpenGL accelerates various types of rendering, including rendering to the screen for previews. See Render with OpenGL.
    • In After Effects CC and CS6, OpenGL and the GPU are important for new features, such as Ray-Traced 3D rendering on the GPU, Fast Draft previews, faster blitting to the screen, and a GPU enhanced Cartoon effect. For more information. See Render with OpenGL.

    Adobe doesn't need to certify if a GPU supports OpenGL, it does or it doesn't.  Personally, I was concerned with the GPUs in the iMac 5K as this what I just purchased (happy dance).   Looking at the AMD site for the line of GPUs AMD Radeon R9, you can see this whole family supports OpenGL.  Therefore, you can be sure the GPUs in the iMac 5K can be utilized for the functions listed above by After Effects.

    http://www.amd.com/en-gb/markets/r9

    Not sure about a specific GPU?  Look up the specs on the manufacturer's site.

    When it come to Premiere Pro - it is a similar situation.  Adobe states they will not have the time to certify all the GPUs.  GPUs that meet certain minimums (support CUDA, OpenCL and have more than 1G RAM) will be utilized for hardware acceleration.    

    I will update after I get my new iMac if my results are different from stated.

    Todd_Kopriva
    Todd_Kopriva
    Inspiring
    April 20, 2015

    > The Adobe help document on Improving Performance for After Effects states that GPU can be used for other processes besides Ray Tracing. 

    That Help document is misleadingly written. I'll have our technical writer fix that.

    > All types of rendering will be improved by GPU processing

    That is false.

    The GPU is used for very few things in After Effects, as described here:

    GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    June 20, 2014

    Unless you plan on using the raytrace 3D stuff, which is obsolete, anyway, any contemporary card will be sufficient.

    Mylenium

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    SiliconPixel
    Known Participant
    June 20, 2014

    There are many plugins that rely on GPU performance so the type of card can make a difference (as can amount of VRAM on the card for things like Element 3D). But I agree, most modern cards seem to work well if you're not concerned about performance In the effects and plugins that use CUDA etc.

    Mylenium - I'm puzzled why you say that ray traced 3D is obsolete in AE? Last time I used it a couple of months ago it was clearly still alive and kicking. Ok, performance sucks big time but it's still useful for some projects.

    aefilter
    aefilter
    Participating Frequently
    July 15, 2014

    That doesn't make the ray traced renderer obsolete though, it's a completely different workflow.


    If the feature was dead it would not be released, but yeah it seems that this raytracing may not have a future (and which might factor into future problems for archived projects).

    The odd thing is that there's no master list of GPUs supported. You get a CS6 list in Help and some addition in a blog for 12.1, but no obvious notes on on any new support in the last 2 releases of After Effects. You have to have AE installed and dig through the app package contents or prefs to be sure.

    Support for a late 2012 Mac disappeared and only reappeared for me with an Nvidia driver update. Maybe it is fair to say this feature is dead, since the number of supported cards hasn't grown for the last 2 releases, leaving users of newer Macs wondering. The good news is that it's easier to enable support on "unsupported" cards -- there's now a checkbox for that. As mentioned, the more recent Nvidia cards should work fine.

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