Adobe introduces GPU-accelerated Creative Suite 4 - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 24th Sep 2008, 14:06

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09...ed-photoshop/1

Adobe has released its Creative Suite 4 product family and includes GPU acceleration in Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Langer · 24th Sep 2008, 14:16

Hoorah! Finally!

DAVEtheRAVE · 24th Sep 2008, 14:26

well thats gonna change my graphics card for my next build...

biebiep · 24th Sep 2008, 14:33

So you need a quadro for the photoshop acceleration as well?

Or does that work on a GTX280? It's not very clear from the article...

Tim S · 24th Sep 2008, 14:37

Only the RapiHD plugin requires a Quadro.

GoodBytes · 24th Sep 2008, 15:14

it uses nVidia CUDA, so the Geforce 200series is good. I don't know about the 8000 and 9000 series thus.

Tim S · 24th Sep 2008, 15:24

All CUDA-enabled GPUs are fine

Mo_ · 24th Sep 2008, 15:37

I didn't even know it was coming! Looks good, just have to wait for that iso torrent

TreeDude · 24th Sep 2008, 15:58

Adding support for AMD's Stream processing shouldn't be very hard. Both CUDA and Stream are used for accelerating the same C code. Thankfully DX11 will end this divide once it is released.

metarinka · 24th Sep 2008, 15:59

about time I say. I always figured graphics cards would do a much better job of rendering static images than the cpu in photoshop (can't speak to video editing, don't know anything about it).

now it won't be the worlds slowest slideshow when editing high res photos and applying filters.

Tim S · 24th Sep 2008, 16:06

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Originally Posted by TreeDude

Adding support for AMD's Stream processing shouldn't be very hard. Both CUDA and Stream are used for accelerating the same C code. Thankfully DX11 will end this divide once it is released.

Yep, for all intents and purposes the code should be reasonably portable between CUDA to Stream, but I believe there will be some minor code changes required in order to move it across seamlessly. As you say, the DX11 Compute Shader will solve all of this political garbage because apps will be seamlessly portable at that point as long as the GPU supports D3D11.

E.E.L. Ambiense · 24th Sep 2008, 16:11

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Originally Posted by Mo_

I didn't even know it was coming! Looks good, just have to wait for that iso torrent

...wow.

Langer · 24th Sep 2008, 16:16

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Originally Posted by Mo_

I didn't even know it was coming! Looks good, just have to wait for that iso torrent

break out the ban hammer.

steveo_mcg · 24th Sep 2008, 16:25

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Originally Posted by Langer

break out the ban hammer.

Because every one commenting here is going to go spend >£500 on photoshop....

E.E.L. Ambiense · 24th Sep 2008, 16:27

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Originally Posted by steveo_mcg

Because every one commenting here is going to go spend >£500 on photoshop....

...some of us actually are professional graphic designers who do so....

steveo_mcg · 24th Sep 2008, 16:28

But 95% aren't and i wasn't suggesting every one was going to pirate it...

Silver51 · 24th Sep 2008, 16:31

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Originally Posted by steveo_mcg

Because every one commenting here is going to go spend >£500 on photoshop....

I see Amazon has CS4 listed:

£995.99 Adobe Photoshop Extended CS4 (PC)
£207.99 Adobe Photoshop CS4 - Upgrade Edition (PC)

The question is, what's the difference between the two boxes? Is one the full suite (Acrobat, Illustrator et al) and the other a PS standalone, or do Adobe really expect home users to pay £995 else suffer Photoshop elements?

Langer · 24th Sep 2008, 16:33

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Originally Posted by E.E.L. Ambiense

...some of us actually are professional graphic designers who do so....

+1. I'll be buying it for certain. No doubt.

@Silver51 - One is an upgrade package for people who already own PS, you can pay a smaller fee to upgrade to the new edition.

E.E.L. Ambiense · 24th Sep 2008, 16:39

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Originally Posted by Langer

One is an upgrade package for people who already own PS, you can pay a smaller fee to upgrade to the new edition.

Great way to go too. +1.

Silver51 · 24th Sep 2008, 16:39

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Originally Posted by Langer

@Silver51 - One is an upgrade package for people who already own PS, you can pay a smaller fee to upgrade to the new edition.

Damn... I have CS2 at work, but I guess I'll have to stick with GIMP at home

If it were around the £150 mark, it wouldn't have been so much of a problem.

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