Best Graphics Card out there

[Jeff Pulera]

I should’ve asked what platform from the start, options are limited with Mac and a Quadro is a good choice then.

Jeff

[Paul Jay]

No it isn’t because you would use a Blackmagic I/O card to get 10 bit HDSDI from Resolve or any other NLE.

[Paul Jay]

GTX 680 performs just as good as a K5000 in Resolve
https://barefeats.com/gpu680v2.html
You just need the CUDA power.

Get a 800 dollar Decklink Extreme PCIe card for your 10 Bit HDSDI monitoring and save yourself some money.

[Paul Jay]

You can get a EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition ( official, not flashed ) for 600 dollar.
This is recently released by Nvidia.

[Tim Kolb]

[Paul Jay] “Get a 800 dollar Decklink Extreme PCIe card for your 10 Bit HDSDI monitoring and save yourself some money.”

For a couple hundred bucks I guess the price of an HDSDI monitor is assumed…

However with Mercury Transmit, keep in mind that I/O cards are downstream from your CUDA card…I am curious how that affects things.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Joseph W. bourke]

Also keep an eye on your power supply when you’re choosing the GPU -Nvidia has a good link to calculate your power requirements for their cards. You don’t want to fry your psu:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2077/~/recommended-power-supply-wattage-calculator

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Paul Jay]

Interesting.

I thought you meant 10 bit output as in 10 bit SDI Monitoring.

For example in DaVinci, on project level it’s always 16 bit processing even if you monitor 8 bit on your DVI monitors.

[Tim Kolb]

[Paul Jay] “I thought you meant 10 bit output as in 10 bit SDI Monitoring.

For example in DaVinci, on project level it’s always 16 bit processing even if you monitor 8 bit on your DVI monitors.”

I have questions about this…and I’ve already sent some emails to try to track this down as I am not certain how this would work, and it likely changes for each piece of software…

I know Adobe’s Mercury Transmit creates a very efficient hand off to the I/O card after the GPU completes the frame, but I don’t know how that’s done exactly in the context of whether or not a display card’s output limitations (if a gamer card is 8 bit for example) would actually affect this…

Now…why you’d want to trust an 8 bit display to be your window into what you’re doing in a 16 bit image pipeline…that I guess I’d also have some questions about. I assume there is a pretty specific LUT needed to even make that possible.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Clifford Xuereb]

Hi,

I am currently in the process of buying a PC for editing using Premiere Pro. The specifications are as follows:

PC Intel Core i7 Quad Core 3770 3.4GHz,16GB RAM DDR3, 1TB Hard Drive, NVidia GTX650 Ti card.

My main concern is: will premiere work with this card, because as far as I know, it is not listed in Adobe’s recommended list of cards? Alternatively is the 650 Ti better? I’m quite new to this.

Thank you in advance.

Clifford

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Clifford,

You may have a typo in your post, listed 650 Ti twice. Did you mean that the system has a 650? Anyway, most of the GTX cards, having the DDR5 memory and 1GB minimum, can be used with Premiere via a simple hack of a text file. But yes, for a few bucks more a Ti is a little better choice. I thought the 650 was out of date though, replaced by 660 Ti and even that I think is near EOL, with the 700 series being out now.

Also regarding the specs, make sure to get a fast dedicated video drive – I only saw one drive listed.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers