Is it nBelievable? New nVIDIA Quadro Performance Drivers up to 200% faster?

Last year Dell Computers had sent me one of their computers to test as a post production alternative for those upset Apple’s lack of a new Mac Pro - (and FCPX as well)

So indeed I tried their Precision 5500 computer with Premiere 5.5 and this new fangled Mercury Playback engine CUDA gizmo.

 On day one my results weren’t really that “eye opening” in comparison to my old 2008 MacPro with a AMD 5770 card. In fact, I would say the old Mac Pro was doing fine in comparison. 



BUT WHY? Was I doing something wrong? It didn’t make sense, RIGHT?



So I cracked it open and unfortunately there wasn’t even a snazzy NVIDIA CUDA setup in the darn computer they sent me -  so I contacted Dell to let them know and then I had to wait for them to figure out what had happened. 

In the mean time it seemed silly and pointless to post my experience or results with the setup, especially regarding this whole Nvidia/Cuda/Mercury Playback Flux Capacitor 1.21 gigawatts thing…  

The football got pulled out of the way before Charlie Brown could kick it more or less. 

BUT…



…after over 4 months, I did finally receive the appropriate NVIDIA card setup…



AND…HOLY SH*T!!



I was amazed.  I remember I added something like 22 tracks of Gausian Blur filters and blended them on top of each other and the damn thing played without dropping frames. I began twittering my long awaited results and basically driving people nuts.

For the first time this NVIDIA/ADOBE combo was allowing me the potential to edit in a way I had never experienced before. NO RENDERING PLAYBACK of non optimized clips and effects. 

Recently during the prerelease of Premiere Pro NEXT (as it was being called then) it also appears much like I was missing the real deal NVIDIA setup in last year’s Dell experiment, the beta/prerelease versions of Premiere Pro didn’t appear to be using the NVIDIA card’s full potential either. (beta code/drivers?) 

So yesterday, as Premiere Pro CC (and the rest of the Adobe software gang) were finally released into the world - there is a little performance driver update for NVIDIA Quadro cards that appears to address the (beta code/drivers?) previous performance ratings from the beta/prerelease version of Premiere Pro.  



NVIDIA’s site claims up to 200% faster that the previous pre-release versions of Premiere Pro CC using this new driver. 



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This looks great considering using the Adobe Speed Grade created looks inside of Premiere Pro CC will become a regular workflow for us for TV/Film productions. 

So let’s put it to the test. 

Here’s the new NVIDIA Quadro Performance driver update from their site.



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