Adobe talks GPU acceleration for video apps – is Photoshop next?
We told you a while back about how the latest version of Adobe Flash supports using your computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU) to speed up video playback. Well, Adobe has even bigger plans for GPU acceleration in its video apps, and maybe even in Photoshop. Adobe blogger John Nack lays out all the details in a new post, including plans to optimize for specific GPU models.
Photoshop is definitely getting multi-core and GPU acceleration, although Nack says he can’t spill the details yet. Pixel Bender is an early example of the kinds of features this could bring with it. Some new features only work with NVIDIA graphics cards so far, but Adobe is looking at supporting OpenCL in the future. Then there’s the aforementioned hardware optimization: just like Adobe apps used to be optimized for PowerPC and Intel processors, they’ll now be optimized for different graphics hardware.
