Badaboom shall provide a glimpse of your CS5 future

Adobe CS5 is here with promises of lightning speed, real time edits, and drastically reduced render time. With Cuda, Mercury, and Nvidia on board, just what is in the Kool-aid ?

Several months ago I was relaxing on a family trip to Gulf Shores. As much as I relaxed …. my laptop kept whispering to me. I stumble into this article about lightning fast render speeds with Cuda technology offered by Nividia. I have Nividia cards in my machines and have been quite pleased but to be honest, when it comes to the specifics and tight performance measures between Nvidia and say, ATI Raedon, I’d rather use them than snooze them. I don’t read all the specs and probably wouldn’t understand it all if I did but when I see headlines like ‘reduce your render time by up to 80%’ … I start reading the specs. I even called a representative at Nivida and began to get a bit of education about these cards, Cuda technology and exactly how that falls into place with this new release of CS5.

‘Cuda’ is Nivida’s technology.  Wikipedia will tell you that: CUDA is an acronym for Compute Unified Device Architecture,  a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia. CUDA is the computing engine in NVIDIA GPUs GPUs that is accessible to software developers through industry standard programming languages.

If you have an Nividia card that does have Cuda technology you can take advantage of ‘Badaboom’ their single task, video rendering application that will  render your high def video that used to take fifteen minutes …. in a matter of seconds.

Want to  see the breakdown of different cards, accelerator enabled, working with or without ‘Mercury’  – contact

Mark Ewert | NVIDIA SALES CENTER

M 877-684-3421 ex 65324 | mewert@nsc-nvidia.com

he loves to talk about video, memory, rendering, and real time editing.