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Many Adobe Creative Suite 4 applications have enhanced features designed to take advantage of a video card's graphics processing unit (GPU) to accelerate performance. The GPU is a dedicated chip that is on the computer motherboard or video card and is efficient at manipulating and outputting computer graphics. The extra processing power of the GPU makes some effects and accelerated rendering possible that would otherwise require extraordinary CPU speeds and large amounts of RAM. If a supported GPU is detected during launch, the application takes advantage of this added processing power.

Creative Suite 4 applications with GPU support

The following CS4 applications take advantage of the advanced processing capabilities of the GPU:

  • Acrobat 9
  • After Effects CS4
  • Bridge CS4
  • Flash Player 10
  • Photoshop CS4
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Note: For details regarding GPU support of individual Adobe products, visit that product's system requirements page on the Adobe website.

Supported video cards

Adobe recommends DirectX 9.0 or later (on Windows) and Shader Model 3.0.* Display cards with 512 MB or better of VRAM and support for OpenGL 2.0.

If your video display card is not detected as a supported card, GPU effects and preferences aren't visible within the application. It is also recommended that you download and install the most recent drivers available from your video card manufacturer.

*Note: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Bridge CS4 use OpenGL 2.0, rather than DirectX. For Photoshop-specific GPU documentation, see the "GPU acceleration in Adobe Photoshop CS4" section of this document.

Tested compatible video cards

Note: The graphics chipsets below are tested to function with Creative Suite 4. Individual applications can have a much larger list of cards that they have tested with.

Windows

NVIDIA

GeForce 6 Series

6800 Ultra

 

 

GeForce 7 Series

7800 GTX

 

 

GeForce 8 Series

8800 GT

 

 

GeForce 9 Series

9600GT, 9800 (single GPU variant one)

 

 

Quadro FX Series

1700

Midrange

 

Quadro FX Series

4600

High

 

Quadro FX Series

5600

Ultra high-end

AMD/ATI

Radeon X1000 Series

1900

 

 

Radeon HD2000 Series

HD2900 XT

 

 

Radeon HD3000 Series

HD3870 X2

 

 

FireGL V-Avivo Series

V5600

Midrange

 

FireGL V-Avivo Series

V7600

High

 

FireGL V-Avivo Series

V8650

Ultra high-end

Mac OS

Mac Pro

First Generation

AMD/ATI

Radeon X1900

 

Second Generation

NVIDIA

GeForce 8800 GT

iMac

 

NVIDIA

GeForce 8800 GS

MacBook Pro

 

NVIDIA

GeForce 8800M GT

Product-specific GPU information

Adobe Acrobat 

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Photoshop CS4

Adobe Premiere Pro

 

Keywords: OpenGL; graphics card; chipset; 3D; hardware acceleration


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Last updated
2011-08-20

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