Supported graphics cards for GPU for Ray-traced 3D Renderer in After Effects CS6 (as of June 2012):
NVIDIA CUDA for Windows:
• Tesla C2075 (when paired with a Quadro cards as
part of an NVIDIA Maximus configured system)
• Quadro 6000, 5000, 4000, 2000, 2000D, 5010M*,
5000M, 4000M, 3000M, 2000M, FX5800, FX 4800,
FX 3800, FX 3800M, FX 3700M, and CX
• GTX 680, GTX 580, GTX 570, GTX 470, and GTX 285
NVIDIA CUDA for Mac OSX:
• Quadro 4000 and FX 4800
• GeForce GTX 285
(*M designates mobile solution for laptops and
all-in-one computers)
For maximum performance, make sure any add-in
video card is installed in a 16x PCI slot inside the
host computer.
Check the After Effects CS6 technical specs web page on Adobe.com (tinyurl.com/AdobePWP-06) for updates;
software updates may add support for new hardware.
As is the case with the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro, if a CUDA card is not
installed, the ray-traced renderer will fall back to using the available processor cores. However,
if a CUDA-enabled card is present, After Effects CS6 uses NVIDIA’s OptiX Ray Tracing Engine to
massively speed up ray-tracing calculations:
Render Times for a Suite of Five Compositions with Ray-traced 3D Layers in After Effects CS6:
5:04:30 CPU-only (8-core 3.47 GHz Intel Xeon 5690 PC):
0:51:51 Quadro 2000
0:33:16 Quadro 4000
0:23:06 Quadro 5000
0:16:59 Quadro 6000
0:14:23 Maximus (Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2075)
0:10:56 Maximus (Quadro 6000 + Tesla C2075)
Note that After Effects can take advantage of multiple GPUs running the same version of CUDA
in the same system, as is the case with the Maximus configurations. (Check the NVIDIA website
tinyurl.com/AdobePWP-07 for the CUDA version supported by various cards: For example, a
Quadro FX 4800 supports CUDA 1.3, while a Quadro 4000 supports CUDA 2.0—so you cannot
combine these two different-generation cards and expect a performance gain over the fastest
single card.)
Another consideration is how much VRAM the video card supports: Among other things, more
VRAM means larger images can be used for Environment Layers in After Effects, which allows
higher-quality renderings of these panoramic wrap-around worlds.
NVIDIA CUDA for Windows:
• Tesla C2075 (when paired with a Quadro cards as
part of an NVIDIA Maximus configured system)
• Quadro 6000, 5000, 4000, 2000, 2000D, 5010M*,
5000M, 4000M, 3000M, 2000M, FX5800, FX 4800,
FX 3800, FX 3800M, FX 3700M, and CX
• GTX 680, GTX 580, GTX 570, GTX 470, and GTX 285
NVIDIA CUDA for Mac OSX:
• Quadro 4000 and FX 4800
• GeForce GTX 285
(*M designates mobile solution for laptops and
all-in-one computers)
For maximum performance, make sure any add-in
video card is installed in a 16x PCI slot inside the
host computer.
Check the After Effects CS6 technical specs web page on Adobe.com (tinyurl.com/AdobePWP-06) for updates;
software updates may add support for new hardware.
As is the case with the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro, if a CUDA card is not
installed, the ray-traced renderer will fall back to using the available processor cores. However,
if a CUDA-enabled card is present, After Effects CS6 uses NVIDIA’s OptiX Ray Tracing Engine to
massively speed up ray-tracing calculations:
Render Times for a Suite of Five Compositions with Ray-traced 3D Layers in After Effects CS6:
5:04:30 CPU-only (8-core 3.47 GHz Intel Xeon 5690 PC):
0:51:51 Quadro 2000
0:33:16 Quadro 4000
0:23:06 Quadro 5000
0:16:59 Quadro 6000
0:14:23 Maximus (Quadro 5000 + Tesla C2075)
0:10:56 Maximus (Quadro 6000 + Tesla C2075)
Note that After Effects can take advantage of multiple GPUs running the same version of CUDA
in the same system, as is the case with the Maximus configurations. (Check the NVIDIA website
tinyurl.com/AdobePWP-07 for the CUDA version supported by various cards: For example, a
Quadro FX 4800 supports CUDA 1.3, while a Quadro 4000 supports CUDA 2.0—so you cannot
combine these two different-generation cards and expect a performance gain over the fastest
single card.)
Another consideration is how much VRAM the video card supports: Among other things, more
VRAM means larger images can be used for Environment Layers in After Effects, which allows
higher-quality renderings of these panoramic wrap-around worlds.
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