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GPU Acceleration support in Acrobat and Adobe Reader (8.x)

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General Information
Supported Video Cards

General Information

Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8 introduces a new feature called graphical processing unit (GPU) acceleration. This features enhances page display, zooming, and panning within PDF files. When Acrobat or Adobe Reader starts, it detects the properties of the video card and enables the Use 2D GPU Acceleration feature within Acrobat or Adobe Reader. The 2D GPU acceleration check box will only be visible if Acrobat or Adobe Reader detects a supported video card.

Supported Video Cards

The GPU detection technology within Acrobat or Adobe Reader 8.x supports nVidia and ATI shader 3 video cards with 128 megabytes of VRAM. The following video cards have been tested with Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

	Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8.0	Acrobat and Adobe Reader 8.1
nVidia Video Cards For Desktops	GeForce 6600 AGP GeForce 6800 AGP GeForce 7800 AGP GeForce 6600 PCIe GeForce 7800 PCIe GeForce 7300 PCIe GeForce 7600 PCIe GeForce 7900 PCIe Quadro FX 1400 PCIe Quadro FX 4500 PCIe	GeForce 6600 AGP GeForce 6800 AGP GeForce 7800 AGP GeForce 6600 PCIe GeForce 7300 PCIe GeForce 7600 PCIe GeForce 7800 PCIe GeForce 7900 PCIe GeForce 8800 GTX Quadro FX 1400 PCIe Quadro FX 4500 PCIe Quadro FX 4600 PCIe Quadro FX 4800 PCIe
ATI Video Cards For Desktops	FireGL V3300 FireGL V3400 FireGL V5200 Radeon x1300 PCIe Radeon x1600 PCIe Radeon x1800 PCIe Radeon x1900 PCIe All-in-Wonder X1800 XL	FireGL V3300 FireGL V3400 FireGL V5200 FireGL V7300 FireGL V7350 FirePro V7750 (FireGL) Radeon x1300 PCIe Radeon x1600 PCIe Radeon x1800 PCIe Radeon x1900 PCIe Radeon x1950 PCIe All-in-Wonder X1800 XL
nVidia Video Cards for Laptops	GeForce Go 7900 GTX on Dell XPS	GeForce Go 7900 GTX on Dell XPS
ATI Video Cards for Laptops	Mobility Radeon X1400 on Dell Inspiron Mobility FireGL V5200 on IBM T60P	Mobility Radeon X1400 on Dell Inspiron Mobility FireGL V5200 on IBM T60P