AltiVec Applications

sloth · May 13, 2002 10:30PM

Does anyone know where I can find a list of OS X applications that are AltiVec capable?

leonis · May 13, 2002 11:36PM

Photoshop (plug in)

Illustrator (Minor operations)

Cinema 4D (Minor operations)

Lightwave (Rendering, sort of)

Animation:Master (interface)

Final Cut Pro (rendering)

QuickTime with Media Cleaner Pro and Sorenson Pro (Compression)

After Effects (Some basic operations)

Combustion (Basic operations and some rendering)

SETI

Mathmatica

BLAST <----- [edit] Thanks frawgz

iDVD and DVD Studio Pro

[ 05-14-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]

frawgz · May 13, 2002 11:55PM

[quote]Originally posted by Leonis:

That gene software....too bad I forgot the name<hr></blockquote>

You mean "BLAST! I forgot the name!!"

<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />

Is SETI really AltiVec optimized? I thought they didn't optimize for anything.

ghost_user_name · May 14, 2002 2:26AM

There's a brief list at <a href="http://www.apple.com/g4/"; target="_blank">Apple's G4 page</a>.

Don't think that's the only stuff that's optimized. Lots of little apps get AltiVec optimizations also, as Andrew Welch can certainly testify to.

henriok · May 14, 2002 7:11AM

SETI@Home is not optimized for altivec. They have done no optimzation for any specific hardware.

outsider · May 14, 2002 11:06AM

You forgot the most important one:

MacOS X

fotek2001 · May 14, 2002 6:51PM

Fireworks 3.0 and higher.

applenut · May 14, 2002 8:19PM

[quote]Originally posted by Henriok:

SETI@Home is not optimized for altivec. They have done no optimzation for any specific hardware.<hr></blockquote>

so they say, but at the G4 unveiling in august 99 they did an altivec seti demo.

eugene · May 14, 2002 8:35PM

And in that SETI demo the G4 faired no better than my G3 at the time. Remember, it was compared to an Intel CPU and not the G3.

Crandall said a G4 could do a SETI unit in 6 hours. I could do a unit on my 233 MHz iMac in 14 hours if I ran lean.

applenut · May 14, 2002 8:36PM

[quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

And in that SETI demo the G4 faired no better than my G3 at the time. Remember, it was compared to an Intel CPU and not the G3.

Crandall said a G4 could do a SETI unit in 6 hours. I could do a unit on my 233 MHz iMac in 14 hours if I ran lean.<hr></blockquote>

really? I thought he used altivec as the reasoning that it was so much faster

pestobreath · May 15, 2002 4:56PM

I know that older versions of some Adobe apps such as PhotoShop required a separate plug-in ("AltivecCore") to use AltiVec. Anyone know if this is still the case with version 7, or have they natively embedded this capability into the application? I was poking around in a friend's PhotoShop 7 folder and didn't see this plug-in anywhere.

rightnow 92 · May 15, 2002 8:02PM

Photoshop 7 still requires the AltivecCore, even in OS X. It's not really OS X prepared in a lot of ways--although the splash screen features some cool aqua transparency effects

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<EDIT>

You have to manually install it after poking around in the Photoshop 7 install CD--that might be why your friend doesn't have it.

[ 05-15-2002: Message edited by: rightnow 92 ]

gumby5647 · May 16, 2002 10:57AM

iTunes...

iDVD

iPhoto

Final Cut Pro

DVD studio pro

RC5

Quick Time 6

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cdhostage · May 16, 2002 12:40PM

RC5 baby!

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