

Also, there will not necessarily be a drop of CUDA support, they may be parallel to each other, depending on what GPU you are using. For now, CUDA is supported in the Creative Suite meaning that nvidia cards has an edge over AMD cards. And not even that, the only rumors state that there will be OpenCL support in CS7, or the next iteration of the Creative Suite. When hearing something from someone, dont take it all onboard, get a 2nd or 3rd opinion and differentiate your own opinion from three different sources of info. However simpler things like Winrar, Firefox, Flash Applications and such are all GPU accelerated these days and provide great performance on both Nvidia and ATI, like stated, some perform better on certain solutions better, google again can help you. The few programs that use GPU assist for encoding are few and far between. The programs that came out years ago, are still where its at, except a lot are not getting updated no more. The two different API's are now program exclusive, and googling your card's CUDA/OPENCL app compatibility will tell you two things. There is a CUDA and OpenCL thread on the forum, a good read for those looking into the GPU assist programs sure to be talked about.Ĭuda support has been dropped recently and OpenCL has been picked up by Adobe and being used in their next release. This API is further supported in 3d modeling applications like Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max.When hearing something from someone, dont take it all onboard, get a 2nd or 3rd opinion and differentiate your own opinion from three different sources of info. This is because Nvidia has a graphics API, CUDA (Compute Uniform Device Architecture) that has been integrated into applications like Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects. Hey dude! The Radeon HD 7970 is a great card for gaming, however, it is not a great card for other 3d applications when compared to Nvidia.

Also, AMD has up their sleeve a 9970 that they are said to release in Q4 2013 (around December 2013). the 780 is said to release on May 23rd of 2013, this month, so i would recommend you wait for that. if you are going for gaming, I would recommend you get a 680, even if your going for gaming performance as it beats the 7970 ghz edition in most benchmarks, as you can see with the link I am going to attach to this post of Titan benchmarks by Tom's hardware (I chose the Titan benchmarks because it was the quickest and most recent benchmarks of the 7970 ghz edition vs the 680 I could find). This API is further supported in 3d modeling applications like Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max. This is because Nvidia has a graphics API, CUDA (Compute Uniform Device Architecture) that has been integrated into applications like Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects.
