NVIDIA Card with Yosemite and Premiere causing major graphics failure

[Jon Manterola herbozo]

yeah.. I thought that… but I think my mac pro is powerful enough… here is a capture

I have noticed in premiere that when I really appreciate the improvement is when I put a lot of effects in the same clip (lumetri, stabilization…etc) or for example an adjust layer on top of the whole project… with my old GPU I couldn’t play normally in these situations… now I can… so there is a great improvement.

But with “normal” previews (clips without effects) or multicams, I don’t look improvement at all… sometimes goes a bit slow…

Also when I export the project, is faster than before… half time more or less… but I think that this is not good enough (my old GPU was from prehistory… of 512MB…)

adobe told me (after doing some tests with them) that looks like this is an error of 2018 version… that they are working on it and soon will be fixed…

after effects is worse though… I can’t see any improvement comparing to my old GPU… 🙁

[Greg Janza]

Your CPU is older and you only have 16 gigs of RAM so that may be the biggest factor. Also, where is your media stored and what type of media are you working with? Are you using a Raid or a single drive? You may also have a bottleneck of data.

My GTX 970 is working in tandem with an i7-5820k CPU, 32 gigs of RAM and my media is playing back from a TB2 raid at around 500 MB/sec and that allows for smooth full res playback of Sony 4k media with Luts attached.

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[Peter Garaway]

Hi Jon,

The GPU seems to be working correctly based on what you described (performance increased processing GPU effects/Rendering). I’ll include a very helpful article below that goes into detail about how CUDA and OpenCL are utilized in Premiere Pro and After Effects but here’s a quick overview.

Premiere will take advantage of the GPU in the following cases: Scaling, Deinterlacing, GPU supported effects, Blend modes, Color space conversions and supported RAW formats for debayering.

Help this helps! Please refer to the link below for more info:

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro/

Peter Garaway
Adobe

[John Vargo]

If your computer runs slow running multiple streams at once, as with multicam sequences, its likely a bottleneck in disk IO. You really need a fast interface and fast drives to stream that much data. If you haven’t already, you may want to consider an external RAID disk connected to a high speed thunderbolt add-on card. I believe Sonnett has a eSATA card that you might be interested in. I’m not sure if you are bus-limited with a computer of that vintage, but the card gets you up to a theoretical 6GB/s.

Or, if you haven’t already, get yourself into a workflow using proxies.

[Jon Manterola herbozo]

yes.. thank you very much for the info… perhaps I have to add 16gb of RAM.. .that would make a difference right???

and is it possible to install thunderbolt in a 2009 mac pro?? I thought it wasn’t…

I have another new and big problem.. .today my mac has shut down like 2 or 3 times… I’m really upset because today is last day for returning the NVIDIA 970… so I have to make a decission right now… is this normal??? can be fixed??? :S

[Jon Manterola herbozo]

yes.. in some situations there is a really better performance, I’m noticing it after 2 days working…

But now I have another new and big problem.. today my mac has shut down like 2 or 3 times… and rebooted itself a couple of minutes later… I’m really upset because today is last day for returning the NVIDIA 970… so I have to make a decission right now… is this normal??? can be fixed??? if not I will have to return it… and go back to my horrible old GPU… :S

[Jon Manterola herbozo]

yes.. thank you very much for the info… perhaps I have to add 16gb of RAM.. .that would make a difference right???

I have the videos stored in the mac pro’s hard drive in a second partition (RAID)

But now I have another new and big problem.. .today my mac has shut down like 2 or 3 times… I’m really upset because today is last day for returning the NVIDIA 970… so I have to make a decission right now… is this normal??? can be fixed??? if not I will have to return it and go back to my horrible and old GPU… :S

[John Vargo]

A quick Google search looks like there are not Thunderbolt add-on cards for Mac, so your best bet would be PCIe. Sonnett has a number of PCIe cards available that should work with your computer:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/computercards/index.html

Then you could get yourself a nice PCIe RAID set. This one includes the card:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiondx800raid.html