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HovardKr2016
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March 28, 2019
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Graphics cards and GPU in AE

  • March 28, 2019
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I am looking to buying a new mac and wondered what graphics card have the right GPU support in AE? The cards in my old mac is no longer supported and I can not activate GPU...

The one I am looking at have these cards:

- Radeon Pro 555X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching Intel UHD Graphics 630

- Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching Intel UHD Graphics 630

(APPLE CTO MacBook Pro 15" TB 2.6GHz 6C i7 16GB/ 1TB/ 560X Space Gray)

Will they give me full GPU support in AE CC2019?

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P.M.B
P.M.B
Legend
March 28, 2019

HovardKr2016  wrote

The cards in my old mac is no longer supported and I can not activate GPU...

Rendering with OpenGL in After Effects CC

If you're doing any serious work in After Effects you should be using Windows and an Nvidia GPU

~Gutterfish
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    HovardKr2016Author
    Participant
    April 2, 2019

    Yes, I see that now... Well, I want to keep playing around with After effects, so I might just as well buy me a PC.

    Anyone who can help me pick a Dell laptop at max $2000 that have a CUDA card that works ok in AE? I dont do any big work, so I guess a budget gaming laptop can do the job?

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    March 28, 2019

    Will they give me full GPU support in AE CC2019?

    It's possible, but not very likely. It's simply a limitation in how Macs even deal with this stuff, Apple not allowing certain things, driver versions lagging behind an eon compared to PC and perhaps even those AMD Radeon chips not being ideal for some functions to begin with. That and of course CC 2019 is buggy as heck, so this may never even come into play.

    Mylenium

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      HovardKr2016Author
      Participant
      March 28, 2019

      Ok... so what would be my alternative then? There are plugins in AE that require GPU, like VR Converter.

      Anyone who has a suggestion?

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