We spoke with AMD about ATI’s potential ability to accelerate Photoshop CS4 and Premiere CS4 effects on a GPU and we were right about that lead.

ATI has confirmed that Radeon HD 4000 and HD 3000 series will help accelerate many things in Adobe's Creative Suite 4 pack.

ATI Radeon HD 4000 will accelerate Premiere and in Nvidia's case, you need an ultra-expensive Quadro for that. This makes a big difference and ATI told Fudzilla that HD 3000 series will help accelerate video transcoding that will lead to faster video editing, 3D effects and transition, something that you use regularly in video edition are also accelerated on the GPU. ATI HD 4000 series might definitely sell well in this video editing market, as you pay a fraction of the price of Quadro and still get the acceleration. It will be fun to compare Nvidia vs. ATI on this particular application set. 

Photoshop CS4 extended is also accelerated on both Radeon HD 4000 and 3000 series. Both cards will help accelerate image and 3D model previewing including panning, zooming and rotation. ATI can accelerate 3D manipulations on photos (map an image onto a 3D object such as a sphere, for example). 

The less widespread, professionally oriented After Effects CS4 is also heavily accelerated on HD 4000 and HD 3000 cards. ATI’s GPU will help accelerate 3D effects in films, video and DVD editing in this popular video post-processing package.

We were quite surprised to hear all this, as ATI didn’t make a lot of noise about this, and we’ve heard that even Photoshop CS3 gets accelerated by some ATI cards. After all, it looks that AMD has a very strong relationship with Adobe, but this was something that AMD failed to pass through.