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Illumineric
Illumineric
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August 17, 2016
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AMD Firepro vs Nvidia Quadro?

  • August 17, 2016
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Hello guys,

I'll be purchasing a new graphics card in a few days time. I did a lot of research in which to buy: Firepro w8100 OR Quadro m4000.

I was wondering if which of these cards will perform well in REAL TIME PREVIOUS and RENDERING?

Some of the people actually said that AE only supports CUDA, and FirePro's isn't a good choice when it comes to AE cards.

But AMD clearly said in their website AMD FirePro™ Graphics and Adobe = that they've teamed up with Adobe to fully optimize their FirePros.

So what would be your recommendation?

Current PC set-up

i7 5930k

32GB DDR

225GB SSD

2x 1TB HDD

Gigabyte x99 Mobo

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Correct answer Szalam

The current version of After Effects uses the GPU for very little, so I wouldn't worry about AE too much. Premiere is much more GPU-heavy.

The people who say AE only uses CUDA are mistaken. They are probably thinking about the old ray-traced renderer. It only uses CUDA on certain NVIDIA cards to accelerate, but it is an obsolete feature that I would recommend against using at all, so don't worry about it.

The latest version of After Effects (13.8.1) does have GPU acceleration of 3 effects (Lumetri, Sharpen, and the brand new Gaussian Blur). Those three effects will use CUDA or Open CL on Windows machines.

That being said, NVIDIA cards tend to work better for video work across the board - even in the 3d world with GPU renderers like Octane (one of the most popular third-party renderers for Cinema 4D), results are much better with NVIDIA or are only possible with NVIDIA.

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Szalam
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August 17, 2016

The current version of After Effects uses the GPU for very little, so I wouldn't worry about AE too much. Premiere is much more GPU-heavy.

The people who say AE only uses CUDA are mistaken. They are probably thinking about the old ray-traced renderer. It only uses CUDA on certain NVIDIA cards to accelerate, but it is an obsolete feature that I would recommend against using at all, so don't worry about it.

The latest version of After Effects (13.8.1) does have GPU acceleration of 3 effects (Lumetri, Sharpen, and the brand new Gaussian Blur). Those three effects will use CUDA or Open CL on Windows machines.

That being said, NVIDIA cards tend to work better for video work across the board - even in the 3d world with GPU renderers like Octane (one of the most popular third-party renderers for Cinema 4D), results are much better with NVIDIA or are only possible with NVIDIA.

Illumineric
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August 17, 2016

Thanks Szalam, very informative.

So I assume AE mainly feeds on CPU power? I have a core i7 5930k, 12 threads. But most of the time I couldn't even play my work in real-time. My current GPU is a very old GTX 760. Maybe my GPU is dragging my PC's performance down?

Szalam
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SzalamCommunity Expert
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August 17, 2016

Illumineric wrote:

So I assume AE mainly feeds on CPU power?

Yes, but also having enough RAM and having a separate SSD for your cache can also significantly improve your workflow/speed.

Illumineric wrote:

But most of the time I couldn't even play my work in real-time.

Do you mean you open a project, press spacebar, and it's not real time? Or do you mean you open a project, cache a preview, and then play back a preview, but the cached preview's playback isn't real time?

And, in either case, what, exact, version of AE were you using for this?

Illumineric wrote:

My current GPU is a very old GTX 760. Maybe my GPU is dragging my PC's performance down?

Very unlikely to be the issue. That card is a good card for AE.

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