Any Premiere Pro users?

[ajf]

As per my other posts I have been asked to look into some new Macs.
One of the uses will be for Premiere Pro. I do not personally use this.
Final output as 1080p of varying lengths upto 30mins.

Couple of questions.
Firstly with the CPU. The iMac has the option of i5 or i7. For this software is the i7 of any significant benefit? The main difference is the hyperthreading I think?

Secondly, graphics.
I understand the rendering can be accelerated with suitable CUDA cards. The options seem to be 675mx and 680mx. How much improvement does the higher spec card give?
*edit* In fact can anyone confirm if support for these cards has been added to Premiere yet? I have since found the 'MX' versions may not work for accelerated performance.

Any other comments or feedback re the software and spec?
HDD will be the standard 1Tb and will have 16Gb RAM.

Thanks

 

[ajf]

Thank you for that.
Interesting note about the SSD though.
Do you think it would be more beneficial to spend on this rather than the higher specced 680MX graphics?
There is an 'official' 256Gb one on the Apple site from Lacie.

Incidentally, had a further look around and it does look like, as you say, this card and most other CUDAs can be enabled. I guess there is just a risk it may not work as expected after buying!