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AMD GPU acceleration for Primiere Pro?
- Thread starter walkman
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I'm leaning towards replacing my Nvidia 260 with an upcoming 6970, but the thing holding me back is that Adobe seems to favor Nvidia for GPU acceleration. Has anyone heard any news of if/when this might change?
There are no current plans for Adobe to support OpenCL GPU acceleration at this time. The current release of Premiere Pro, CS5 5.0.2, still does not support OpenCL. Therefore, AMD GPUs still use software-only mode (aka CPU-only mode). Open CL GPU accelerated support might not arrive to Premiere Pro until CS6 or CS7.
Nvidia offers free CUDA programmer support, and it's really good of them to do it, so adoption is good.
Browser and Flash should be vendor neutral because their target audience are the integrated graphics chip group and they don't have CUDA or OpenCL.
Browser and Flash should be vendor neutral because their target audience are the integrated graphics chip group and they don't have CUDA or OpenCL.
Dark Shroud
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If you guys read the different interviews and posts you'll find that Adobe originally looked at OpenCL. The problem was at the time OpenCL didn't meet all the requirements that Adobe needed while CUDA did. It looks like Adobe will eventually switch to OpenCL over Direct Compute since it's also supported in OSX.
Bummer. I wonder how Nvidia got Adobe to take that approach?
Because CUDA rocks. The thing is CUDA does what it says it does really well, and has been around for quite some time. So doing GPGPU stuff on nVidia is easy, and it is something programmers have experience with. OpenCL is very much a new thing and much like OpenGL it hasn't been managed all that well. Now to add to that, ATi was a little pokey in getting OpenCL support out. Despite their hype about OpenCL and DirectCompute, nVidia had them properly implemented first.
So right now it is just a situation where people who want to do GPGPU for a release product will probably go with CUDA. They know it works, they can get programmers who understand it and have experience, and so on.
I'm sure this'll change as time goes on. The 5000 series have been wildly popular and really helped AMD's position in the graphics market (both my laptop and desktop are 5000 series). Going to take some time though. Programmers will need to learn the new APIs and get proficient with it, and any driver/hardware problems will have to be made known and worked out.
Interestingly, I just came across an article that puts some of the responsibility for lack of adoption of OpenCL on Intel.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...settlement-could-mean-good-news-for-apple.ars
"Intel's next architecture update, Ivy Bridge, is expected to have a design that is OpenCL compatible, but Intel won't commit to providing OpenCL drivers. "Intel is evaluating when and where OpenCL support will intercept our products, however no announcement has been made," spokesperson Nick Knupffer told Ars. Apple isn't in a position to wait any longer for Intel to step up its IGP game, and NVIDIA likely has designs waiting in the wing for Apple to use once the legal issues are cleared. A settlement now could ultimately be a win-win-win for everyone involved."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...settlement-could-mean-good-news-for-apple.ars
"Intel's next architecture update, Ivy Bridge, is expected to have a design that is OpenCL compatible, but Intel won't commit to providing OpenCL drivers. "Intel is evaluating when and where OpenCL support will intercept our products, however no announcement has been made," spokesperson Nick Knupffer told Ars. Apple isn't in a position to wait any longer for Intel to step up its IGP game, and NVIDIA likely has designs waiting in the wing for Apple to use once the legal issues are cleared. A settlement now could ultimately be a win-win-win for everyone involved."