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NVIDIA and AMD Graphics Cards Set To Boost Performance in Adobe CS4

Today Adobe announced Creative Suites 4 with a lot of great new features, including native support graphics processing units (GPUs). Adobe is the latest in a trend of visual computing companies grabbing on to the massively parallel processing power of GPUs for more than just rendering pixels to the screen. Adobe Creative Suite 4 is the most important addition to this trend because of its market position as the leading artistic tool suite. NVIDIA has published a few marketing slides today about Adobe CS4 performance and how it can be approved with their video cards. One of the more interesting bits of news was the fact that there is a CUDA plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 that is said to deliver 7x the performance of a CPU. Very interesting and this is something that AMD can't match.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 uses NVIDIA Quadro or GeForce GPUs to create a digital canvas that is interactive in ways that are simply not possible without a GPU. NVIDIA GPUs enable real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and make changes to the view instantaneous and smooth. Adobe Photoshop CS4 also taps the GPU for 2D and 3D compositing and high-quality antialiasing, making jagged edges of text and objects a thing of the past. Brush resizing and brushstroke preview, 3D movement, high-dynamic-range tone mapping, and color conversion are also accelerated by the GPU.

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Posted by | Tue, Sep 23, 2008 - 04:42 PM