i7Baby writes:
> If you found them, then are either the 780 or 780ti adobe-certified?
Doesn't matter if they're certified, just add them to the ray tracer supported cards file, it'll work fine.
My file has everything, including 460, 280, you name it, all work ok. Quad-460 is amusing.
DMK13 writes:
> I use Premier Pro, After Effects and I Would like to learn Maya. ...
Premiere Pro is a little odd. Adobe keeps bouncing back & forth as to whether to really support CUDA
or not. AE certainly does in numerous ways, couple of 780 Tis would rock. As for Maya, it's changed
in recent times, Autodesk have rewritten it to be a lot more friendly to consumer cards (grud knows
why); used to be that Maya was 10X faster on a pro card, but not anymore, though that could easily
be down to the bias in the nature of the subtests (pro cards are generally massively faster at things
like AA lines). Just don't expect perfect viewport or geometry precision from a gamer card; they cut
corners in order to get the performance (it's why a 7970 scores so well for
Viewperf12 even though
the image precision is not remotely as good as a Quadro in many cases).
> ... but I can hardly afford Quadro k4000, ...
Check the used market, I won a used K5000 for only 525 UKP. Actually it was unused,
just removed from a new system to make room for a K6000. Bagged two 6000s in a
similar manner, and some 2000s/4000s.
> ... plus I was told that gtx 780ti is better than k4000 for adobe products.
Overall, yes, because AE doesn't make use of newer OGL stuff for its GUI, much of which is old code, etc.
Thus, the OGL support of modern gamer cards is more than enough. It's hard to quantify the viewport
precision benefit of a pro card in this case, but overall a 780 Ti should be fine, and it'll provide far more
CUDA power than a Quadro in the same price range.
I built a
compromise system for someone, ie. a used K5000 and two GTX 580s, total CUDA power
equivalent to 1.5X a Titan Black; far better primary display performance for the user's other pro apps
which run badly on gamer cards, better viewport precision, etc., but with good CUDA provision for AE.
The trick is to use version-matched quadro/desktop drivers, then it works fine.
Ian.