After Effects CC (12.1): what’s new and changed in this ...
blog.adobe.com › en › publishSep 08, 2013 · In After Effects CC (12.1), we have added a checkbox: “Enable untested, unsupported GPU for CUDA acceleration of ray-traced 3D renderer.” Enabling this checkbox will do a couple of things: After Effects will use the GPU-accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer with any GPU that meets minimum requirements (which include 1GB of VRAM and CUDA 5.0).