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  • 1333 vs 1600 Mhz RAM and Vegas Pro

    Posted by Dave Lozinski on May 2, 2011 at 12:32 am

    Hey all,

    In case anyone was wondering if upgrading to 1600 Mhz memory will make a difference in using Sony Vegas, according to several reviews I’ve read, it won’t.

    I’ve read it only makes a few seconds difference using Adobe Premiere and zero using Cyberlink PowerDirector.

    Here’s one article that did a benchmark using Vegas Pro 9 x64:
    https://www.anandtech.com/show/2792/8

    Maybe there’s been improvements in Vegas Pro 10 to take advantage of faster memory? But I doubt it.

    Here’s another article that showed the difference in speeds in Adobe Premiere:
    https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-scaling-i7,2325-8.html

    What I find most interesting is Adobe Premiere seems to take some advantage of the differences. Adobe Premiere also seems to have significantly increased CUDA support for rendering and previewing.

    Is Vegas starting to lag behind Adobe now?

    Anyway, just wanted to share in case anyone else had a crazy thought that upgrading memory on an i7 processor might shave a few minutes off of rendering times… guess I’ll just put the money towards an SSD. 🙂

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    John Rofrano replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Stephen Mann

    May 2, 2011 at 2:38 am

    [Dave Lozinski] “Here’s one article that did a benchmark using Vegas Pro 9 x64:”

    All that means is that memory is not the bottleneck in whatever the process was doing. Sony Vegas needs processor power more than faster RAM or hard-disks.

    I am currently running some experiments where my editing project files are on an SSD. Rendering/Encoding speed is not much improved, but preview with multicam projects is significantly less painful (on my 2300MHz Quad-Core PC).

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

  • John Rofrano

    May 2, 2011 at 2:41 am

    I would be shocked if 267Mhz faster memory made a difference when you’re talking gigahertz speed. SSD’s will have little to no affect either. The CPU is primarily the bottleneck for rendering.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
    http://www.vasst.com

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