RapiHD Accelerator is available now!
After a significant amount of blood, sweat, tears -- and a little bit of coding as well -- the RapiHD™ Accelerator for Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 is out the door! There's only one way to get: with the NVIDIA® Quadro® CX graphics board. This smoking hot board will change the way creative professionals interact with Adobe's Creative Suite 4. The coolest feature, of course, is rocket-fast H.264 encoding out of Premiere Pro CS4, powered by Elemental's RapiHD™ Video Platform. But that's just the beginning; there are many other workflow benefits to using this GPU throughout Creative Suite. NVIDIA has a nice Built for Professionals site illustrating all these advantages here. The team has worked tirelessly to get RapiHD Accelerator out the door. Now every creative professional can harness the power of the GPU with the NVIDIA Quadro CX board and Elemental's RapiHD Accelerator! For details, PNY's site has some good technical details and specifications on the board. You can purchase the Quadro CX at NCIX or TigerDirect or CompUSA right now; many more outlets will have the product soon. Keep checking this list of Quadro CX resellers to stay on top of additional channels.
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Hi Daren, the Quadro CX card
Hi Daren, the Quadro CX card is similar to the GTX 260 in that it has the same number of stream processors (192). But it is a Quadro through and through, which means beyond Elemental's RapiHD Accelerator goodness it has:
* Significantly more memory -- 1.5 GB GDDR3
* Support for HD-SDI output for professional monitoring
* Native 30-bit color DisplayPort output
* Enterprise-class reliability
In short, this is a card that has been tested and designed by NVIDIA to meet the needs of the creative professional whose livelihood depends on the card's performance. Quadro cards are always more expensive than their GeForce counterparts because there is a lot more engineering involved. Thanks,
Sam
Isnt the CX card very similar
Isnt the CX card very similar to the GT260 with double the available ram? It would be interesting to see how this pans out and what matrox comes out with in regards to cs4 support.
These are good questions.
These are good questions. NVIDIA has exclusive distribution rights to the RapiHD Accelerator for Adobe Premiere Pro, and given that it is targeted at professional videographers it makes sense that they are distributing it in the Quadro line of professional-grade GPUs.
Quadro CX provides the best price-performance of all cards in the Quadro lineup, and you need the 192 cores to get maximum speedup with RapiHD Accelerator. Comparing the price point of the bundle to other available specialized hardware cards should be compelling as well; instead of having to buy a separate video card and high-end plug-in card, users get everything they need in a single GPU purchase.
It's a shame that the only
It's a shame that the only way to get it is with the expensive Quadro CX!
We all know that the RapiHD plug in can work with any supporting CUDA card (as you demonstrate yourself) and by this saving money on cheaper graphic cards, but i guess NVIDIA wants us all to buy their extremely expensive card.
So please explain how it's not milking more money.
I just hope that in the future we could buy the plug-in separately.
(in times like this NVIDIA looks really bad, even by its own faithful customers)
Its unfortunte that the gpu
Its unfortunte that the gpu acceleration is tied to a high end gfx card. I guess cineform and matrox is still the way to go for small production houses.