Check it Donnie, Nvidia just launched its Quadro CX accelerator card for Adobe's Creative Suite 4. The optimized GPU fits into your PC's PCIe slot to smooth image navigation and manipulation in Photoshop while accelerating effects in Adobe's After Effects and Premier Pro. Nvidia claims that the new GPU helps encode H.264 video at "lightning-fast speeds" when using Nvidia's
Cuda-enabled CS4 plug-in while giving professionals accurate video previews with uncompressed 30-bit color or 10-/12-bit SDI (for professional video equipment) before final output. The Quadro CX features a 1.5GB (GDDR3) frame buffer and 76.8GBps memory bandwidth with dual-DisplayPort connectors (up to 2560 x 1600 pixels) and a single dual-link DVI with support for panels up to 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz. Look, we know this sounds all stupid-hard advanced to those of you using Photoshop to hotten-up your Facebook pic, but the pros are going to love it. $1,999 and available today -- video demonstration just beyond the read link.
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posted October 17th 2008 4:34AM
It sounds like most people here think GPU offload is going to help with Photoshop CS4: it does not! At least not in the sense that compute-intensive filters, adjustment layers, layer composition, etc. will be accelerated. That is still all handled by the main CPU. What it does help in is with screen redraw tasks, like giving you smoothly animated zooming, rotating the display (*not* the canvas!) for tablet work, displaying the pixel grid at high magnifications, etc.
Read the article carefully. "Nvidia just launched its Quadro CX accelerator card for Adobe's Creative Suite 4"... it does not specifically say "Photoshop CS4". "The optimized GPU fits into your PC's PCIe slot to smooth image navigation and manipulation in Photoshop while accelerating effects in Adobe's After Effects and Premier Pro"... again, it only speeds up "image navigation" in Photoshop. Accelerated effects are only available in AE and Premier.
Anyone who drops $2K on this Quadro thinking it will give them instant blur effects or super-fast raw image conversion in Photoshop will be sorely disappointed.
Uh, you missed the part where it said "manipulation" ("Image navigation and manipulation"). I'm skeptical, like you, as to how much this particular card will speed up Photoshop, but I have no doubt that this will speed up a whole lot of the important "manipulation" (working with filters, adjustments, painting, etc.).
Anyone know if this would push Maya 8.5 a little better? They mentioned the GPU helping with Calculations. TIA