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Fastest GPU Rendering: Quadro FX 4500 or 7900 GTX?
I’m looking to upgrade my VGA card. Has anyone any experience of the Nvidia Quadro series of cards with Premiere? Would such a high-end card give any performance boost to Premiere (or After Effects for that matter) over a 7900/7800? I know magic Bullet benefits from these cards but does the Quadro help anything else?
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
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Sorry, I meant to add I’m working with Decklink SD and HD in 10-bit uncompressed projects.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
http://www.php.com.au -
Overall, the Quadro series of display boards have some pretty substantial capabilities. Unfortunately a LOT of these are tough to see unless you get a chance to use one or you really love research…
Of course one obvious advantage is the component video out feature of boards like the FX540 (currently in the process of being replaced by the FX560) and the FX1500, available with a “Video Edition” option.
Open GL acceleration is much more application-sensitive in the professional boards as well, with settings for Maya, Cinema 4d, After Effects, etc, etc…
Another advantage is the ability to handle user clip planes more effectively. You may have experienced the issue when moving one window on top of another window and waiting for the area previously occupied by the window to refresh and “fill in”. Hardware handling of clip planes (Quadro family handles up to eight simultaneously I believe), makes these refreshes not even really necessary as the full window below was there the whole time and is revealed the instant the upper window is moved.
There are other advantages in how many pixels and texels per second can be processed, etc., but those conversations would have to specify two particular boards to compare…suffice it to say that you usually get what you pay for…unless you are referring to the Quadro FX1500 (soon-to-be or JUST recently available), which is incredibly inexpensive for what it does.
TimK,
Kolb Productions,
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Thanks Tim for the detailed reply. I may look around for a second-hand Quadro 4500. Perhaps if it is optimised for After Effects, there may be some acceleration of AF filters in Premiere Pro. It’s very hard to get a difinitive answer as I’ve never heard of any head-to-head tests with Quadro and GTX on a PPRO system.
Cheers,
PeterPeter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
http://www.php.com.au
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