• VEGAS Pro

  Best Video Cards

  Posted by Jeff Schroeder on April 6, 2012 at 2:13 pm

  Hello guys,

  Without regard to connectivity (DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort) which video cards are going to give the best performance in Sony Vegas?

  I have been using Nvidia cards for years, usually paired. I am looking at The FirePro series from AMD. I’m not finding any rendering benchmarks that compare the AMD to the Nvidia.

  The budget is around $600 for the video card(s).

  Does anyone have experience with the FirePro cards?

  Thanks in advance,

  Jeff

  Windows 7 64-bit, ASUS P6X58D, i7 960 3.20GHz, 24.0GB DDR3, 12TB connected storage

  Jeff Schroeder replied 14 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Stephen Mann

  April 6, 2012 at 8:46 pm

  I have one (FirePro) card in my closet you can have. It’s not even a year old.

  I avoid AMD/Radeon cards for two reasons. First, I have a history of difficulties with their drivers, and because I run plugins from Boris and Genarts which only run with the nVidia cards with CUDA.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Steve Rhoden

  April 7, 2012 at 1:59 am

  tsk…Gonna be a while before Vegas nails down this GPU
  mess and its not entirely Vegas’s fault.

  Steve Rhoden
  (Cow Leader)
  Film Editor & Compositor.
  Filmex Creative Media.
  1-876-832-4956
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  Colin Morris

  April 7, 2012 at 4:15 am

  Hey Jeff-I would second the “stick to Nvidia” argument. I have a similar config to yours and got advice from a local store that builds a lot of PC’s. They told me to stick with Nvidia, for CUDA, open CL etc because they found less problems with non-gaming software and plugins. I buy a new desktop and laptop every 2-3 years and install the latest Vegas Pro release on the new machines. I leave the old machines with a stable release.(currently SVP 8) Initially, with GPU accel on and SVP 11, my new Gateway i7 desktop crashed with the stock nVidia video card.(which was at the lower end of the recommended cards) I upgraded the video card to a higher NVidia spec with 2GB of RAM and have not had a problem since. It was not an expensive card ($100) but it was a workstation card with plenty of RAM.
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  Jeff Schroeder

  April 7, 2012 at 3:33 pm

  Thanks for all your comments. I build a new system every 2 years, and have not looked past the nvidia offering for the last 5-6 builds. I just didn’t want to miss anything if times had changed.

  Jeff

  Windows 7 64-bit, ASUS P6X58D, i7 960 3.20GHz, 24.0GB DDR3, 12TB connected storage

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