Nvidia vs ATI Premiere CS5

Ok, so I just bought a Radeon 5770. I keep reading about Nvidia's CUDA when it comes to video editing in Premiere CS5, but I dont see anything about ATI's Stream doing anything in CS5. Are the GPU accelerations nvidia only? If this is the case, I may sell my 5770 and grab a GTX260.

http://layersmagazine.com/premiere-p...eleration.html

Nope. Only nvidia.

But if your board has two PCIE slots you might be able to run both an ATI and NVIDIA GPU simultaneously.

thanks for the video, it was very helpful... anyone know if adobe plans to add support for ati cards?

I dont know. :shrug:

I would guess support for ATi cards will materialise eventually. When I run stuff like BOINC from time to time one of my GPUs becomes heavily loaded. So although BOINC doesn't officually support ATi GPUs (AFAIK) seems like some tasks can utilise a ATI GPU still.

I would guess support for ATi cards will materialise eventually. When I run stuff like BOINC from time to time one of my GPUs becomes heavily loaded. So although BOINC doesn't offically support ATi GPUs (AFAIK) seems like some tasks can utilise a ATI GPU still.

Why use premier, there are other tools out there that support ATI for video encoding like Media Espresso from Cyberlink.

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Originally Posted by BeepBeep2

http://layersmagazine.com/premiere-p...eleration.html

Nope. Only nvidia.

But if your board has two PCIE slots you might be able to run both an ATI and NVIDIA GPU simultaneously.

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Without being able to see the load on any of the cores in his Mac rig it's hard to say whether all of them are utilized or just a few. Having worked with CS5 I must say that it doesn't always use all of your CPU power. It depends on the codecs / format used. Sometimes it uses only 1 core, it all depends. That being said I would say that an 8 core rig could / should do better than what is shown in this video.

thats odd that ATi isnt supported.. ATi was supported in CS4.. oh whoops, PS that is, dunno about Premiere sorry

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Why use premier, there are other tools out there that support ATI for video encoding like Media Espresso from Cyberlink.

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Well, if Media Espresso has same quality and lack of options as Cyberlink PowerDirector (and I suspect that to be true, as it's from same company), than it has speed and quality worse than ATI's own Video Converter that's available in Catalyst.. which means it sucks. It's some 10x faster than CPU coders, but video results from software (CPU) encoding is way better looking, and offers 720/60p (which ain't even an option in any of these GPU encoders). Now if only something in the middle would exist..