GTX 470 Is Lone Wolf in GeForce-supported Mercury Engine Cards for Adobe CS5

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Well, after a ton of major bug fixes and feature additions, we have a major CS5 update for After Effects and Premiere.  One additional feature really caught my eye:  CUDA-accelerated rendering.  In case you don't know, CUDA is a software interface that unlocks the processing power of your GeForce GPUs since the 8800 series of cards, and it allows the card's muscle to be used to do things your CPU would do.  For example, an awesome program named Badaboom for Windows leverages CUDA to performa dramatically accelerated transcoding of videos to H.264 at a fraction of the time my Q6700 CPU can do it in!  And in case you don't know, a Q6700 is an Intel  2.66Ghz quad core beast, still very powerful by today's standards.  So CUDA has an exciting future.

Unfortunately, the support for GeForce cards by Adobe is in an odd infant stage, and it is not explained why Adobe's running into issues supporting more GeForce cards.  For now, those of us with an updated copy of AE CS5 and Premiere CS5 need either a GTX 285 or GeForce GTX 470 in order to get this awesome performance boost.  Or, you can spend around $1,000 and get yourself an NVIDIA Quadro.  Personally, I can't do that, so it's time to create a good excuse to sell the GTX 260 and pick up a GTX 470.

- Josh