Best Graphics Card out there

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Alex,

Something like a GTX 660 Ti or GTX 680 will do great, just to name a few, depends on your budget.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Alex Rod]

say my budget is to get the best in the market,….whatever that is. Is the Quadro K5000 the best?
or is there something better?

[Tom Daigon]

My vote is for the GTX Titan card since I use PrP and AE.

It is reported that PrP Next will see multiple GPUs so that might change things for those wanting more GPU power in PrP.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Alex,

There are many factors to consider besides price. For one thing, if the rest of the system is not up to par with the graphics card, a big GPU could be overkill, as the other components will limit what you can do. Kind of like putting a huge motor into an econo car – you won’t have the handling or braking to accommodate all the available power.

As Tom mentioned, AE can greatly benefit from a big card, as can many 3D apps. But if you’re mainly concerned with use in Premiere, you might find little to no benefit of a monster card versus a 660 Ti. For instance, for effects that work “realtime” in Premiere with the 660, clips can’t play back “more realtime” no matter how expensive the GPU. On a similar note, an H.264 export may not be any faster, or only a couple percent faster, with the big card. Is it worth it for a 2% performance bump?

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Tim Kolb]

Two variables at work here…what softare is affected today…and what may happen tomorrow.

The Titan is the current shiny object of GPU lust…extra power is not often our problem in video post…but Jeff’s point about over-configuring one area and under-configuring elsewhere is also valid. The GPU is assisting with scaling and effects processing as well as color space conversions, etc. Decode is still a CPU thing…as is encode.

AMD is starting to really make some noise about their cards now that PPro ‘next’ will utilize any GPU card, but time will tell as to whether OpenCL is inferior, equal, or superior to CUDA in any given area, though getting a test together where all other factors would be equal would be nearly impossible…

Part of this will also have to be based on the power supply in your system as some of these large GPU cards have significant power draw, as well as heat production.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Lance Bachelder]

Another thing to consider is whether you need true 10bit video out say for a Dreamcolor or other high-end monitor that supports 10 bit display port. You cannot get 10bit video out of any of the GeForce cards – you must use a Quadro card. So if true 10bit color while editing/color timing is important than you’ll need to go Quadro. This is not a hardware issue but a driver issue as nVidia is protecting their pro card business.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Paul Jay]

If you use CUDA based apps like Davinci, Premiere, After Effects then a Quadro is a waste of money if you ask me.

Get a GTX 680 or wait for Titan.

[Tom Daigon]

The GTX Titan has was released several weeks ago so it is available. Get on a waiting list at Newegg and you can have one within a week in most cases. They are so popular they fly out the door as soon as they are in stock.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
HP Z820 Dual 2687
64GB ram
Dulce DQg2 16TB raid
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com

[Tim Kolb]

[Paul Jay] “If you use CUDA based apps like Davinci, Premiere, After Effects then a Quadro is a waste of money if you ask me.”

I’m not sure I follow your reasoning…10 bit output isn’t important with Resolve?

If not CUDA, then what would you use a Quadro card for?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Alex Rod]

I am leaning towards the Nvidia Quadro X5000 –
After FX and PPro are my two main software (and the others like Meida encoder and Encore)

My Set up is
OSX.8.2
2 x 2.4Ghz 6 core intel Xeon
Memory 32GB

Any reason why I shouldn’t go with the Quadro X5000?