Intel i7-Quadro fx(1800) or geforce series

[John.RenderStream]

CUDA in Photoshop? That is so overrated and unnecessary anyway - stick with the OpenGL and don't encourage nVidia's bonehead attempts to split the market with useless proprietary technology.

 

Of all the things that need to be accelerated in Photoshop, viewport pan and zoom is near the bottom of the list.

 

Certainly I won't dispute and repect your opinion but we have enough customers who think this is important and do find benefit that we do it.

 

BR

John

[AJLynn]

I see. Fortunately I don't sell these things so I just talk

[MandelbrotJr]

No way - FireGL/FirePro cards are great for OpenGL. My FireGL v5200 beats current gamer cards in some OpenGL areas, and for OpenGL in Revit an ATI card is the only way to go.

 

You're right, I meant regular Radeon cards. FireGL/Pros are very very good cards, in fact they usually outperform Quadros in Max by a long shot, but my experience with Radeons and OpenGL is not a happy one, most probably driver related.

 

Now, just to be clear Photoshop is NOT using CUDA to accelerate the viewports, just plain old OpenGL via AIF.

 

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html

 

There is a Photoshop plugin sample shipped with CUDA 2.0 but that is a long shot from being an end customer thing, mostly geared towards devs.

There are quite a bit of scientific, CFD, financial apps, encoders, etc built on CUDA, but for pure Arch Vis I think the only ones using it are VRay RT, Octane & Furry Ball. I might be missing something but it's a short list anyway.

 

Overall, CUDA days are numbered, OpenCL & DirectCompute are gaining fast and I'm not sure anyone would be starting new development on CUDA now that even Nvidia is backing OpenCL. We'll see...

[John.RenderStream]

Thanks for correcting my error concerning CUDA with CS4. CUDA is being used to develop encoders and is doing nothing with the viewport with this product. Most of the developers working with us have migrated to CUDA saying it is still a little early for OpenCL. We recently interviewed Autodesk about their GPU-acceleration effort which for us is the first of a series of blogs on the subject.

 

Anyway Thanks

John

[bharris]

As of Revit 2010, it is now DirectX based and went away from OpenGL.