Adobe Premiere CUDA GPU for under $200

xeoncross

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I am upgrading my video editing machine to a Core i7 2600k with 8GB RAM. I want a dual DVI out card that will work great for video editing. Since I use CS4 now (but plan to upgrade to Adobe CS5/6), I take it I can only pick from NVIDIA cards since they are the only cards that support CUDA.

Acoording to ppbm4 and ppbm5.com the GTX family (specifically the 580, 480, and 2XX) do really well. So, just from browsing it seems like the $130 GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) would be a good buy.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I would like to spend $100 - $200 if possible and I do no plan on playing any games (or rather the games I play are from the '90s so no problem there).

I edit MOV H.264 1080p 24fps video from Canon cameras.
 


Sorry, can't comment on that, but I doubt it. Though, all GTX 550 Ti's have 192-bit bus, so I guess you'd have to stay away from it as well. Guess that leaves you with 2 options:

GTX 460 for $150
or
GTX 560 for just below $200.

It all comes down to what you prefer: 20% performance or $50.
 

xeoncross

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I'm not worried about the 196bit pipeline, just thought I'd ask in case it was important. I personally would rather save the $50 since the GPU is only going to be offloading some of the previewing calculations and I can use that for more HD space.