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Does Vegas 11’s New GPU acceleration benefit from cards in SLI?
Hi, I recently upgraded to Vegas 11, at the moment i have a Nvidia FX1800 card in my machine, but it’s not capable of taking advantage of Vegas’ new GPU acceleration So i’m going to be upgrading… I’m just wondering if Vegas was capable of taking advantage of 2 cards in SLI? Or would it only recognize/make use of one card?
Was thinking of going for some 560’s as I’ve come to realize the benefits of the professional Quadro range are very minimal compared to the price tag, at least to me and my budget anyway.
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The question is why you want or need SLI.
I was intending to get the GTX590 with 1024 CUDA cores, but have read here and elsewhere that Vegas Pro 11 does not max out/take full advantage of all the available CUDA cores as there are other components in your system that have to keep up such as disk i/o, system bus speeds and RAM speed (not video RAM) etc.
I ended up settling on a single ASUS GTX570. It’s a massive beast of a card that takes up 2.5 slots, is about 8 inches long and needs a minimum of 650W PSU with a 4 pin AND and 6 pin power connector. This puppy takes up serious space and power, and a SLI setup for me would entail a PSU, motherboard and case upgrade to accommodate 2 cards. Yikes!
I am not convinced that an SLI setup would deliver the performance benefits, although I have heard of some cow users using GTX460’s in an SLI setup. I think SLI setups of lower end/early model cards was necessary to realise performance benefits, but with the newer GTX5-series cards sporting 384, 512 cores etc, SLI may be unnecessary.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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