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jon
January 28, 2009 11:39 AM
This month, we're looking at how Nvidia's Quadro CX technology (around $2,000 at Videoguys) can accelerate performance in Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4). In the first installment, we learned about why having a powerful graphics card wasn't all that important to previous versions of the Adobe Create Suite, and how CS4's embracing of OpenGL makes graphics performance important again. However, we also saw that Adobe had certified Nvidia's GeForce GTX 260 for use with After Effects and Photoshop, and (
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jon
January 14, 2009 11:29 AM
NVIDIA has something that could be nothing short of revolutionary to creative users: the Quadro CX chipset. The Quadro CX includes a technology called CUDA, which stands for Compute Unified Device Architecture. Basically, the idea is to offload the heaviest number-crunching from the CPU onto the GPU (graphics processing unit). The GPU itself is comprised of 192 individual cores. (
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jon
January 12, 2009 11:00 AM
Last month, we compared Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) performance on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems, finding that 64-bit proved superior in nearly all tests (see part 1 and part 2). This month, in our quest to identify the optimal CS4 configuration, we look at graphic chip manufacturer Nvidia’s Quadro CX technology—which, according to Nvidia’s website, “is the accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4—giving creative professionals the performance, tools, and reliability they need to maximize thei (
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