Nice :)

Paul.

OK, what's the price of the video card?
JJK

NVIDIA® Quadro® 5000 - £1643.88

Where did Gary say it was the Quadro-5000?

Gooolllllyyy! That's $1200.00 more than I paid for the motherboard.
JJK

I hope Sony officially support the lower end Nvidia cards the same way as Adobe does. The GTX470 is offically supported with PPro CS5 and I get incredible performance with it on timeline playback and export rendering.

so, if that's the story so far, there's little point in getting 11 if i also have to spend $900+ on a new video card - especially so since pls mentions getting good results with his gtx470 (about $300au)...

*of course, i'll buy 11 at the discounted price, as i have all other releases, but do so grudgingly ;-)

Where did Gary say it was the Quadro-5000?


He does not have to say, because it is on the display to the right :
TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW , Sony Vegas Pro,
Powered by Quadro 5000 + 3D Vision Pro.

Yep. I see it on the screen -- at screen left ... which is Gary's right -- unless Gary is turned around and then it's Gary's left and screen left .. or is it stage right? .. What ever it's a Quadro 5000 alright RIGHT .. Wonder if playback will be anywhere that smooth with a Quadro FX580 ? That's more in my budget range .. but actually playback is a big deal .. maybe the BIGGEST .. so maybe I would spend more to get things smoothed out in real time playback ..... It's going to be interesting to see the balance between the CPU and the GPU .. where are you going to get the best bang for the buck. Clearly going to wait a bit before my next build.

Amazon price is around $2000.

Dave T2

People wanted to know what works. Now you can start saving for that $2k hardware dongle you always wanted. ;)

what video card will work on a mac?

I think you people are making way too many assumptions. They are using a $2,000.00 card.

So what!

That does not mean that is the ONLY card that will work! Once 11 is out, it will then be possible to determine what cards are and are not compatible. Which cards give the best results and which ones don't.

As for me, I may or may not need another new card to take advantage of 11.

I will find out when I get 11 on my computer.

Meanwhile I will not make assumptions or speculations.

What fun is life without assumptions and speculations?

:)

Dave T2

That does not mean that is the ONLY card that will work! Once 11 is out, it will then be possible to determine what cards are and are not compatible. Which cards give the best results and which ones don't.

The youtube description says it's OpenCL. I can't find what version of OpenCL that Nvidia card supports but the latest AMD's seem to support 1.1, so I assume that's the newest. Looks like OpenCL is supported on the ATI/AMD 4xxx series of cards & newer. Nvidia's naming conventions are all over the place but I'd assume anything from the same time span on to now would support it.

However... the question isn't will the card be supported, the question is will it make a difference. :)

nVidia GPUs support OpenCL, the current version of which is v1.1. They integrated OpenCL into their drivers in November of 2009. Pretty much anything newer than an nVidia 8400 appears to be supported.

There were so very few cuda cores on those early cards, I can hardly imagine that they would be "oficially" supported. I had to go in and modify a text file to let my GTX 260 be supported by my CS 5.5 suite.... too bad I hate adobe's workflow, because I've probably spent less than 5 hours in total in premier. but I'm hoping that I can get some decent performance with whatever they release, but really I'm hoping that the power in the consumer cards GTX 5xx and 6xx coming in early/mid 2012 will have enough juice to really cook through a lot of content in a price range that's sub $500 or so.

Dave

Stop worrying - anything CUDA will work as is the case with After Effects. Why would a 470 CUDA not work? Do you think Sony will go to all the trouble of somehow blocking CUDA on everything other than a 5000? Lots of other programs support CUDA acceleration without any problems so why would Vegas 11 be any different? GPU/CUDA acceleration is commonplace now days.

Nvidia has, in the past, used the drivers to limit things. While I don't think this is the case with CUDA there's no reason to assume they couldn't require certain cards via drivers.

It's OpenCL however, now CUDA only. Any company that makes an OpenCL compatible card would work. Apparently IBM makes some & PowerVR (I thought they didn't exist any more) do too.

These http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600083901%20600126572&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon%20HD%206990AMD's[.link] are ~$730, support OpenCL & 5 monitors at the same time. The same priced Nvidia's suppert 4 monitors and have 1/3rd the OpenCL cores.

There are some misnomers with between the number of cores and power of nvidia and ATI cards. ATI has a lot more sometimes even 2-4 times more cores, but their cores ( at least in the past ) have not been as powerful or efficient for in crunching. Open CL and Cuda are very similar as far as I understand, but Cuda has just been around a bit longer in mainstream and Open CL is catching up. So even though nVidia has fewer cores, they tend to work much better ( or have in the past at least ) than their ATI counterparts, which is part of why there are so many more of them on an ATI card :) but it's definately nice to use an ATI card that can support a bunch of monitors. I'm stuck in nVidia for my 3D rendering tech, but there are times I wish that my renderer was Open CL rather than cuda so I could have one card drive 4 monitors instead of 2.

Dave

So does anyone know if you have 2 Nvidia cards installed in a machine both with Cuda, how does this translate in terms of cores? I only ever see tick boxes for 'GPU enabled' but never disp1 or disp2 GPU. So i assume it only uses one of the cards or is it an addition of the two?

Paul.