It’s almost like fixing your car yourself as opposed to bringing it to the dealership to get fixed. Once I received the workstation I wanted to take it apart because if I am a small business owner I don’t know if I can necessarily afford to send my workstation out to get upgraded. They are beautifully engineered and extremely easy to open and modify.

First off let me tell you, if you aren’t tired of me pumping up the HPs by now, the HP workstations are incredible.

I was sent the Nvidia Quadro K4000 graphics card (which sells for around $800) pre-installed inside of a HP Z420 workstation. You will get a little error message when you try and enable it, big bummer. At the moment Adobe does not support raytracing with an AMD card, not even the cards in the newest Mac Pro. Adobe leverages the parallel processing power in the Nvidia Quadro GPUs such as in After Effects with its Optix raytracing engine and in Premiere with the Mercury Playback Engine providing great realtime video effect playback. With Nvidia Quadro pro graphics solutions combined with the Adobe CC or CS6 you are definitely working with the powerhouse of teams. On a daily basis I use Adobe’s After Effects and Photoshop, and Avid’s Media Composer/Symphony. Trying to see what graphics card will suit you isn’t always clear: Do I want the AMD card that has 6GB of 384-bit GDDR5 or will the Nvidia card with 3GB of 192-bit GDDR5 memory do the trick? Everyone has their own needs and budget. However, today we are being forced to choose sides, and not all graphics cards are created equal. Years ago it was my ATI All-In-Wonder card that helped me get started in editing. Given Apple’s recent inclusion of AMD only on their latest Mac Pro, the competition is heating up.įor the longest time I built my own computers, not really focusing on my graphics card solution because in the end they all achieved relatively the same level of greatness, as far as I was concerned. As far as graphics cards go, Nvidia and AMD are at the head of the pack.

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