List of supported CUDA cards in Adobe Premiere CS5

We all have seen the amazing speed of the new mercury engine in Adobe Premiere CS5.
We are excited because it is based on nVidia CUDA cards and we (at least myself) are convinced that this version will make our life much easier (not like Premiere CS4).

But there is a grande issue here (again). When I installed the tryout version of Premiere CS5, I noticed that the RED bar still exists!!! (the it needs rendering bar)
- Hey what the… I mumbled and clicked the preferences.
Then I saw my worst nightmare come true.
Mercury Hardware Acceleration option was grayed and non selectable!

But why?
My nVidia VGA card is CUDA enabled,  it is a 9800GT (not so powerful but hey… IT IS CUDA)
It seems that Adobe and nVidia made an agreement to support specific nVidia CUDA cards such as:

• GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS)
• Quadro FX 3800 (Windows)
• Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS)
• Quadro FX 5800 (Windows)
• Quadro CX

Although there will be additional testings for other CUDA card as Adobe wants to test the stability of each certified card there is a serious question  of instability a nvidia driver update can cause.

Nevertheless, Adobe Premiere CS5 is much stable than CS4, it can be installed ONLY on 64bit OS, and you can use it either you have the above cards (Mercury Hardware Acceleration ENABLED) or not (Mercury Software Engine).

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