[DR - Quadro5000 is officially supported whereas the GTX590 is not. However, you can get it working if you do some digging.]

[DR - Any graphics engine for CS5 or CS5.5 that does not have NVIDIA will not be able to use the GPU hardware acceleration of the Mercury Playback Engine. That said, you will still have a very fast system that will be able to run Premiere Pro CS5.5 and do HD Editing. My most recent blog entry the three components of the Mercury Playback Engine should help you understand what each does and what's most important.]

[DR - I would tend to disagree. What the GPU really brings to the table is load balancing. Historically, the CPU had to take the whole load. Now with the GPU, we can choose to create a better balance. Despite that, a system without the GPU card is still a tremendous performer because of 64-bit, multi-threading, multi-processing, RAM, etc.

Also, GeForce cards are approved and compatible, though I heartily recommend a Quadro card for its superior engineering and reliability.

Finally, to answer your question - I don't see integrated video being able to help something like Premiere Pro for several years. an on-board graphics system is budgetary by design and therefore not a good choice for Premiere Pro.]

1st question: why do GRAPHICSOFTWARES (i.e. photoshop, corel etc.)
need high RAM and high end video cards?

our I.T management recommend this specs:

Lenovo Thinkcentre M70e desktop
Intel Core2Duo E7600 3.06Ghz 3MB L2 Cache
4GB PC3-8500 memory
320GB HDD
Intel IBM Motherboard
Optional: 1GB VGA 250 series for graphics need.

and these are our recommended specs for graphic artist:

processor: Intel i7 950x Extreme Edition
motherboard: Eclipse Plus
support memory types: 33 Mhz DDR3 RDIMM
RAM: 4gb ddr3 (2x 2gb)
Graphics Support: MSI N470GTX-M2D12
Power Supply: R88 Power 900w
Hard disk: Sata 320gig
casing: In Win fanqua
UPS/AVR: APC Black-Ups ES00VA

What can you say about it? can you explain specifically so our boss can understand it?

[DR - this is a topic best handled in the forums http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current

However, I will briefly say that the first system is underpowered (laptop CPU in a desktop). The second system does not need Extreme Edition. I'd save that money and pour it into RAM - 4GB isn't even close to enough for Premiere Pro or After Effects.]

[DR - the nvidia GPU needs at least 768MB of memory to be useful to the Mercury Playback Engine, so current MBP's with 330M's don't qualify as they have 512MB. Applying the hack doesn't work either. If a new MBP comes out with an nvidia card and at least 768MB of RAM, then we might have something.]

Dear Adobe, please support the GTX 560 Ti in the Mercury Playback Engine, it replaces the discontinued GTX 470.

they seem to have the same specs & i want to use these cards for the cuda acceleration using premiere / after effects…

im just wondering why i should spend the xtra $ on the fx 4800 over the gtx 470?

cheers

[DR - Quadro cards are the superior chips with a better engineering design wrapped around them and will gracefully degrade whereas geforce could just quit on you. Bottom line, is both cards are good. At this date (January 2011), I'm hearing GTX470 cards are already starting to dry up and the replacement for the Quadro FX4800 is the Quadro 5000. One other card to look at is the Quadro 4000 - more processing than the 4800 but less than $1000.00 US.

Final note - After Effects uses OpenGL and not CUDA, so the tangible benefits for AE are quite limited.]

[DR - you are correct in your statement.]

[DR - As of today (12/10), Apple doesn't not stock any NVIDIA GPUs nor makes them available as an add on. I have no idea of when that might change. My recommendation in this case would be to purchase the absolute cheapest ATI card for the Mac tower you could and get the Quadro 4000 somewhere else.]

[DR - Technically, you do have two thirds of the MPE (64-bit native and memory addressing). However, you are correct that that you do not have GPU hardware acceleration which is specific to CUDA enabled nvidia cards. If you want Mercury Playback hardware support and a Mac, you would have to get a Mac tower and the Quadro 4000. On the PC side, you have more choices in this case.]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gtx-570-us.html

Adobe, please support the GTX 580 and GTX 570 since you do support the GTX 480 and GTX 470 as well as the discontinued GTX 285 which is much much slower than the 580 or 570.

[DR - thanks for the comments. We'll see how we do.]

[DR - I'm using the Mercury Playback Engine on my 3 year old Macbook Pro today. Remember the Mercury Playback Engine is comprised of three things:
1 - 64-bit native application
2 - 64-bit memory addressing
3 - CUDA enabled GPU hardware acceleration (with the proper nvidia card)

So, any CS5 user is getting the most important parts of MPE. That isn't Adobe marketing gobbly-gook either. The 64-bit native and memory parts are more valuable than the GPU.

Currently, there is no MacBook Pro that would allow users to utilize the GPU since Apple is currently favoring ATI GPU's for their laptops. This may perhaps change in the future.]

My question- is there any update on MPE certification testing on Fermi nVidia mobile Quadro GPUs (at this point, that would just be the 5000m). I know a while ago in the blog (don’t remember how many months ago) you alluded to the fact that Adobe wasn’t planning on really certifying any mobile GPUs. I wasn’t sure if that was in reference to the older mobile quadro line (FX 3800m), or if the more powerful 5000m (and subsequent) fermi mobile GPUs have changed that stance. Having that acceleration in a computer that could be right on set and in the field (i.e., a laptop) would be a huge help in a lot of production situations.

(Just FYI, no complaints about Adobe’s careful certification process. It is Adobe Premiere “PRO”, and to a working professional, stability and consistent, predictable performance is crucial)

Any update you can give would be appreciated.

Thanks

[DR - The updated list does not include the 5000M card, but I bet if you used the 'hack' that it would perform pretty well. We do want to expand GPU support but as you mentioned, we're being cautious. I'm also glad that you recognize our efforts to ensure a consistent user experience and that "PRO" does in fact stand for something.]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html

Please support the latest Quadro Fermi cards also in the Mercury Playback Engine.

[DR - to my knowledge, we have no plans of adding additional support in the short term. We have just added support for the Quadro 4000, 5000 and GTX 470 cards.]

[DR - The Mercury Playback Engine has three aspects: 64-bit native application, 64-bit memory addressing and GPU. The Macbook Pro supports the first two (the most important two) but not the third as all of their current GPU cards are ATI. The GPU technology is based on nvidia's CUDA technology and as a result is not compatible with ATI.]

[DR - Unfortunately, the 3800M did not officially make the final list.]