• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Advice Please : Add GPU for Premiere + Resolve

  Posted by Tim Tyler on December 3, 2012 at 4:21 pm

  Premiere CS6 and occasional Resolve user on fast Win7 box.

  I’ve had a GTX570 as the GUI GPU with a GTX460 for a secondary GUI that Resolve can use. For some reason I had the 460 in the 16x slot closest to the CPU and the 570 in the other 16x slot. Yesterday I swapped slots but kept the GUI monitors plugged into the 570 and found I got smoother playback in Premiere. Resolve Lite still sees (1 GPU) in the About page.

  I’m thinking it makes sense to retire the 460 and get a second 570 at the least. According to https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm the GTX570 is kind of a sweet-spot card, with good performance at a reasonable price. I’ve also read that it makes sense to stay in the same Geforce series when adding cards (500’s in this case) but I wonder if there is an advantage using a 600 series Geforce card or if that will cause compatibility problems.

  I also wonder how much difference the GPU memory makes using these applications.

  A 2GB GTX670 will cost about $130 more than a 1GB GTX570.

  FYI:
  GPU / CUDA / Mem Width / Graphics / Processor
  ————————————————————-
  GTX 460 / 336 / 256 Bit / 675 Mhz / 1350 Mhz
  GTX 570 480 / 320 Bit / 732 Mhz / 1464 Mhz
  GTX 670 1344 / 256 Bit / 915 Mhz / 980 Mhz

  Tim

  Alex Gerulaitis replied 13 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Alex Gerulaitis

  December 4, 2012 at 12:08 am

  670 runs cooler, eats lets power, supports up to four monitors, PCIe 3.0. That may not matter in your situation, the card is just a little more future proof, and the fact that it runs cooler, may mean less chance of a failure.

  HTH.

  Alex Gerulaitis
  Systems Engineer
  DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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  Tim Tyler

  December 4, 2012 at 4:12 am

  Since Premiere only uses 1 GPU, which GPU will it choose if more than one is installed?

  My experience suggests it uses the closest-to-the-CPU card whether that card is the GUI card or not.

  Resolve on the other hand will use the non-GUI GPU for CUDA processing regardless of its slot, right?

  So if I add a 4GB GTX680 as the BMD guide recommends for CUDA then I should use the existing 1GB GTX570 as a GUI card, but not in the closest-to-the-CPU slot so Premiere will use the 680 for processing?

  Tim
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  Alex Gerulaitis

  December 4, 2012 at 4:29 am

  I believe Premiere Pro uses the primary GUI card (the one driving monitor 1) for GPU acceleration unless in Maximus configuration.

  Alex Gerulaitis
  Systems Engineer
  DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

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