Commenting on: How did I miss this: PhotoShop CS4 is GPU-accelerated on FirePro cards, same as Quadros

Not sure how I missed this one - but as I was posting my test render for MachStudio Pro running on a FireGL V8650, YouTube recommended other videos that might interest me.  Three of these revolved around using FirePro cards to accelerate PhotoShop CS4.  Turns out that FirePro cards accelerate PhotoShop CS4 as much as the very hyped Nvidia Quadro cards, because the GPGPU acceleration in PhotoShop (and After Effects) is based on industry-standard OpenGL, not anything proprietary (i.e. not Cuda). All of the FirePro cards enable real-time image rotation, zooming, and panning, and makes changes to…