GPU for Premiere Pro Mercury Engine?

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Hello,
years ago Adobe started using GPU acceleration for their video editing software and only CUDA from NVidia was supported. Now they added OpenCL from AMD.
I want to buy a video card to help with rendering and timeline preview since it could really help.
Problem is AFAIK only low end/mid range Nvidia video card have been tested, as you can see here http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm even a cheap GTX-550 Ti can almost be 8x faster than CPU only time line render. And twice as fast for exporting in H264. That's a big deal for under $100.

I only found these benchmarks that compare only high-end (really expensive!) cards http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Premiere-Pro-CC-Professional-GPU-Acceleration-502/ .
So how am I supposed to know if $100 and below AMD cards perform and they're even worth the trouble?
Should I base the decision using this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html and then considering Stream processing units like CUDA cores?

I'm looking for AMD because I remember they're usually cheaper, right?
 
RadiclDreamer

RadiclDreamer

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You should be able to use the results from the low end and high end cards to extrapolate what a mid end card would likely be able to do. Are you trying to find the best bang for the buck or find just whats the fastest around?
 
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I'm trying to understand how it works with AMD for opencl and if it could be related with cuda cores otherwise that comparison is useless.
 
DominionSeraph

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-sandro- said:
I'm trying to understand how it works with AMD for opencl and if it could be related with cuda cores
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There's really no relating of anything outside an individual architecture. That's why we have reviews.

If your budget is under $100, that doesn't leave you much. There are no 2GB 250X's below $100, there are no 650 Ti's, there are no 7770's, or 7790's. And the vanilla R7 250 and vanilla GTX 650 are comparable. So if OpenCL vs CUDA performance is a question, get the card that can do both.
 
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DominionSeraph said:
There's really no relating of anything outside an individual architecture. That's why we have reviews.

If your budget is under $100, that doesn't leave you much. There are no 2GB 250X's below $100, there are no 650 Ti's, there are no 7770's, or 7790's. And the vanilla R7 250 and vanilla GTX 650 are comparable. So if OpenCL vs CUDA performance is a question, get the card that can do both.
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Both brands don't do OpenCL equally as well. You would buy nVidia for CUDA and AMD for OpenCL.

THIS is the cheapest R7 265 I can find, $130AR. I wouldn't go with anything less than that for using OpenCL.

I would recommend though that the OP checks on forums where people actually use the app with GPU acceleration and see what works best.
 
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