FAQ: What are CUDA and the Mercury Playback Engine, and how do I use them?

See these articles:
CUDA, Mercury Playback Engine, and Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 improvements in CUDA processing and the Mercury Playback Engine
... and these movies:
GPU: CUDA
The Mercury Playback Engine: CUDA Improvements

The easiest graphical way I would recommend is to search for an example "whats new in yosemite" on youtube, I am sure you will find lots of videos on that.

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