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December 7, 2016
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Which is the best GPU that works with After Effects, Premiere Pro and Mac Os?

  • December 7, 2016
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Hi!

I need to know which GPU I should buy. It will need to work together with After Effects, Premiere Pro and Mac OS!

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HannaUnaAuthor
Participant
December 17, 2016

Thanks for your answers.

I been looking around in forums and I will go for a Nivida card. Not sure if it will be a GTX 960, 970 or 980.

But on Adobes website it says that Gpu for Mac Os is this list (for premiere pro 2017):

Mac CUDA:

  • GeForce GTX 675MX
  • GeForce GTX 680
  • GeForce GTX 680MX
  • GeForce GT 750M
  • GeForce GT 755M
  • GeForce GTX 775M
  • GeForce GTX 780M
  • Quadro K5000

There the GTX 960/970/980 is not included? But it might work anyway? Is it just because they are not tested yet?

Anyway, GTX 960/970/980 is compatible with Hackingtosh.

Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
December 19, 2016

Why not try to use the current generation of GTX 10 series?  On my PC the GTX 1060 is faster than my GTX 970.

RoninEdits
Inspiring
December 19, 2016

i don't think the 10 (or 1000) series works with hackintosh yet, only up to 900 series.

Szalam
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 7, 2016

Which Mac OS are you using? And what Mac are you putting this GPU in?

HannaUnaAuthor
Participant
December 8, 2016

I am open to install any Mac OS, put I prefer the latest version... I am going to build a CustomMacPro.

I will use this components:

Intel Core i7 6700 4,0GHz 1151

Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH

Corsair Venegeance LPX DDR4 CL16 2x16 GB

Noctua NH-D14

Corsair RM550X 550W

Samsung 850 EVO Series MZ-N5E250BW 250GB (SSD)

Samsung 850 EVO Series MZ-75E250B 250GB

Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 64MB 2TB

I am thinking of a GTX 960? (4GB)

What do you think abut that GPU?

A guy on a hackingtosh forum said that R9 290x is good....

What is the difference between a GPU with CUDA or OpenGL?

Szalam
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 8, 2016

Hackintosh is not an easy road, my friend! I do not envy your path ahead. I would not try it. Just out of curiosity, why are you using the Mac operating system? I mean, I understand not buying a Mac Pro from Apple, but I'd need a very compelling reason to not just build a Windows machine. For example, Adobe does not officially support their software on hackintosh.

The 960 is a decent GPU, but considering it's not the current generation, I'd try to get something like a 970 or 980 if you can (unless there's some reason they don't work with hackintoshes)..

All modern GPUs have OpenGL. Those are two very different things. Apples and Oranges. Now, if you were asking about OpenCL vs. CUDA, that's a bit more understandable. AMD cards use OpenCL and it's kind of the equivalent of NVIDIA's CUDA. But most GPU things do a lot better with CUDA than they do on OpenCL. Things like Octane, Cycles, and the like run much better on CUDA. Premiere's Mercury Playback was originally CUDA-only.

That being said, modern Mac OS's are not written for NVIDIA cards, so you might be better going with an AMD if you're dead set on Mac.