Graphics card recommended for sony vegas

[John Rofrano]

You bring up a good point that it was NVIDIA that broke CUDA support in Vegas Pro not Sony. OpenCL has continued to work. This is why I won’t support proprietary protocols like CUDA and favor Open Source standards like OpenCL. Sony made the right choice when they backed OpenCL.

~jr

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[Erkin Tayhani]

Hi! I’m a musician and couple of years I’m making advertising movies with Vegas. Since I moved up to Cyprus 4 years ago I just take my laptop with me and left my oldie workstation desktop (q9550, 8 gig of ram, gigabyte windforce hd6850 oc edition) in my home town. It’s hard to render anything with i5, 8 gig of ram and insufficent graphic card on laptop . It’s okay while editing, no problem but render times are so long. In that fact, I decided to make budget micro atx/atx desktop with/without my old desktop graphic card. At that point I have some questions;

1. I heard with the new Catalyst drivers we can’t use opencl 1.1 function in sony vegas with 6850 cards. Is it true? Can’t we use it with sony vegas anymore unless installing old drivers?
2. How 6850 card perform with sony vegas? Can I use this card or I need to buy new one?
3. If I need a new one which would it be cheap and good? (r7 360, r9 270x, r9 380… or any other?)

Thanks for your replies.

[Don Cobble]

Sir John is open CL and Cuda issue going to remain true since Magix has taken Vegas and developing SVP14?

PC 1
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Magix Vegas 13 & Adobe Production Premium CS6 & -Edius 7.5 Pro – Edius WG Pro 8 – Sony Catalyst Production Suite – FCPX – DaVinchi Resolve 12.5

Camera
Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

[Ada Kogovsek]

Hi!
I’m planning on buying a new laptop and I have a question regarding graphics cards. For now this are my options:
1) AMD radeon R7 M340 (2GB) – hp probook i7 4MB 2C/4T
2) AMD radeon R7 M365X (1GB) – hp elitebook i7 4MB 2C
3) AMD firepro W4190M (2GB) – hp zbook i7 4MB L3 2C
I’ll be needing it for Sony vegas pro 13, that’s why I went with AMD. But I keep reading about how good R7 and R9 are and can’t find anything about FIREPRO. Is it compatible vith SVP13?
Which option would be the best?
Thanks for your answers!!

[John Rofrano]

[Don Cobble] “Sir John is open CL and Cuda issue going to remain true since Magix has taken Vegas and developing SVP14?”

I don’t know but I thought I read in a post from MAGIX somewhere that fixing the GPU problems wasn’t the first thing that they were worried about. I could be wrong.

~jr

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[Don Cobble]

Sir John
Thank You

[Don Cobble]

Sir John
one other thing is “scatter shot” going to be ready for Vegas 14 if not, will it ever? or yes in time?
Don

[John Rofrano]

[Don Cobble] “one other thing is “scatter shot” going to be ready for Vegas 14 if not, will it ever? or yes in time?”

Not yet, but yes, in time. We’re working on it.

~jr

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[Mikhail Tenyakov]

Sorry to jump into this post like this. I’ve been keeping up with Vegas for couple of days and completely lost. I just watched Vegas 14 Review and it showed that Vegas 14 took out CUDA completely. I have a GTX 570 video card right now, i5 2500k cpu, and 16gb ram. Should I upgrade video card or cpu to make my computer work better? if i get GTX card will it work good with new vegas? or should i get an AMD card? I really want to stick with Nvidia.

Or should i not bother with upgrading video card and upgrade my cpu? what will give me most advantage? thanks to you all.

[John Rofrano]

There were only two render types that supported CUDA but the rest of Vegas Pro never supported CUDA. They support OpenCL which AMD cards seem to be better at than NVIDIA cards so I would buy an AMD card if I wanted Vegas Pro to run at it’s best. Some will say that the new NVIDIA cards benchmark just as good at OpenCL now so it might not matter anymore but I still stick with AMD.

~jr

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