Re: Stupid questions regarding CUDA, OpenCL and Premiere 6

Lance is right. If you want Premiere to work to it's full potential, you need to be running CUDA. The difference between the GPU accelerated Mecury Playback Engine and the CPU MPE is night and day.

I personally couldn't be bothered waiting for Apple to bring out a MacPro (and yes, I know that they've been dependent on Intel releasing CPUs), so six moths ago I went and built a hackintosh specifically for Premiere/Resolve. It was cheap as chips (i7 2600k + 16GB ram + dual GTX570) and works like a dream.

So if you're technically minded and prepared to do a bit of tinkering, I recommend giving it a shot. At the end of the day, if you find it all too hard, you've still got a pretty decent Windows workstation.

Alternatively, wait it out and hope that Apple don't ditch the MacPro...