Pr CS5 - List of supported CUDA Cards

Adobe is working on a playback and rendering engine for Adobe Premiere Pro called the Mercury Playback Engine. This new engine is NVIDIA® GPU-accelerated, 64-bit native, and architected for the future. Native 64-bit support enables you to work more fluidly on HD and higher resolution projects, and GPU acceleration speeds effects processing and rendering.
The Mercury Playback Engine offers these benefits:
Open projects faster, refine effects-rich HD and higher resolution sequences in real time, enjoy smooth scrubbing, and play back complex projects without rendering.
See results instantly when applying multiple color corrections and effects across many video layers.
Work in real time on complex timelines and long-form projects with thousands of clips — whether your project is SD, HD, 2K, 4K, or beyond.
Ensure your system is ready to take advantage of the Mercury Playback Engine in a future version of Adobe Premiere Pro. The Mercury Playback Engine works hand-in-hand with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology to give you amazingly fluid, real-time performance. See it in action
* PR CS5 supports the following list of CUDA cards:
GeForce GTX 285
Windows and MAC
Quadro FX 3800
Windows
Quadro FX 4800
Windows and MAC
Quadro FX 5800
Windows
Quadro CX
Windows
More hardware details:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/

Hi
I agree....also having the GTX260. It looks as if Nvidia and Adobe has made some kind of agreement, so one have to buy an expensive new Nvidia card to get the new mercury engine to run properly in Ppro CS5. I write this because I have read that fx. the GTX 260 is allmost similar to the Quadro CX - same chips etc. - but we can not expect either Adobe or Nvidia to give us customers presents - like making the mercury engine available to all CUDA enabled Nvidia cards....that does not make business - only happy customers....
But I can not wait for Adobe to support GTX260 in CS5. I need better performance right now editing AVCHD quicker and more smooth. Have had tons of issues the last year trying to get things running just reasonable with PPro CS4. I have i7 920 with 2 x SATA 1 TB disks and 12 GB RAM, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and GTX 260 and in CS4 I can only preview AVCHD files without any kind of effects or tranisitions. Just a simple transition and PPro starts having problems playing back properly. CS4 crashes from time to time - not seriously - but it have to think a lot about almost everything some times....But there are no alternatives to Ppro unless you will spend a lot more money.
So I get stucked to PPro - and actually looks a bit forward to see what PPro CS5 can do...hope my AVCHD editting will be less frustrating. But it will certainly cost me some money and make Adobe and NVidia more happy than my bankaccount.
Anyway - what I am interested in knowing is how much difference are there between the cards supported when it comes to performance etc.? Is the Quadro CX worth buying instead of the Quadro FX3800? Or what about the FX4800? Is it so much better than the FX3800? I need more specific details and tests of how things works with these supported cards. It makes no sense that Adobe just writes that these cards are supported - we nedd to know how they perform too.
I can only see the technical details about the cards - but there are no information anywhere about how the cards perform compared to each other - when it comes to playback, rendering speed etc. in PPro CS5?
Adobe and Nvidia must have done some tests? Everytime we see how great the new Mercury engine works it is showed on a high class system with Quadro CX. But what if we showed the same work on a medium class system - say i7 920 with 8-12 GB ram and a GTX 285? Or is it not worth showing anyone - does it perform better or worse or is it almost the same? No one knows....only Adobe and Nvidia. But they won´t tell?
Are there any BETA-tester out there who have had the oppertunity to try things out with different cards?
I am honestly being quite tired of upgrading all the time...spended 4000$ on a new system last year - this year have to spend the same - just on CS5 upgrade and a new videocard....boy, am I a happy customer?
Morten
Denmark

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* PR CS5 supports the following list of CUDA cards:
GeForce GTX 285
Windows and MAC
Quadro FX 3800
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Quadro FX 4800
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Quadro FX 5800
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Quadro CX
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More hardware details:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/
[Moderator's Note: the discussion about Adobe's choices for supported cards was moved to the Premiere Pro Main Forum]
Link

Paste of Post by Will Renczes (Adobe)
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2739509#2739509
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Now that the launch is done and this information is all public, I'm going to summarize all the bits of information that have been floating around into one distilled post:
The Mercury playback engine comprises of 3 areas (our chief weapons are surprise, surprise and fear... nevermind...):
- 64 bit support, and better memory management / frame cache management / sharing between the Adobe apps (ie Premiere and After Effects & the Media Encoder have a notion of shared memory now, and are aware of how much is being consumed by their peers);
- optimizations to multithreaded rendering, to the playback's pipeline, speed improvements with various media types, and all around general fine tuning
- CUDA acceleration of effects / transforms / pixel conversion routines.
Don't have a supported CUDA board? You still get two out of three. Might not seem as sexy on the cover, but CS5 is still a massive improvement over CS4 even without the hardware acceleration.
(Conversely: let me dispel the myth that you can drop in a CUDA supported board into any box and you magically get umpteen layers of RED 4K in realtime. All that CUDA does is free the CPU from the tasks of doing image processing - video footage however still needs to be decoded by the CPU. If you're looking to do high end 4K, do yourself a favor and don't shortchange yourself on a cruddy box. Get an i7, for cryin' out loud... but I digress)
Now, why the limited card selection?
One of the biggest themes was to improve stability and making Premiere truly earn the Pro moniker. To quote another engineer, "This was a decision about being Pro." By limiting the selection of cards, you have a guarantee that the product will do what it's supposed to, that your rendering accuracy will be as good as in software, and that these cards will play nice with 3rd party I/O vendors.
What's the difference between the level of functionality I get with the GTX 285 vs the Quadro boards?
The GTX is limited to 3 streams of realtime. Also, the Quadros come with more memory, so this helps if you're looking to do hi-res (eg RED) editing. Lastly, as a gaming card set, the GTX cards will downclock themselves if they're overheating, so your performance might drop if your cooling isn't the best. The Quadros OTOH have a fixed clock rate, assumingly they have better heat tolerance levels.
When will that selection expand?
TBD. All I will say is that we are looking at some of the next-gen Fermi cards, but they're still undergoing evaluation. Let's put it this way - the beta users group is still running so that they can help test the new card support going forward. Keep your ear to the ground, I'm sure there will be plenty of noise made when they're announced.
Can you add me to the beta list?
Nope. Not my domain, I'm afraid.
What's the scoop with ATI cards, and openCL? Why nVidia / CUDA only?
When the acceleration work began over a year & a half ago, openCL wasn't even a finalized specification. CUDA was a more mature technology, so that's what we went with. For the future? It'll be evaluated for CS 6.

About the List of Supported CUDA Cards

[Moderator's Note: more info from Wil Renczes (Adobe)]
Here's the link in the help documentation:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/CS5/Using/WSd79b3ca3b623cac9-e423b201260 b3b62c9-8000.html
Unfortunately, there wasn't a screenshot - so here's one. The GPU Acceleration option won't be available on non-supported cards.

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Hi all, I have a question about my old MacPro.
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