Radeon R9 290 video card and Vegas Pro 13

[David Norman]

I have the 290 in my 3770 i7 rig and I will need to use that specific codec to render for you. ill try later tonight. For most renders for things like YouTube i use CPU only for the fastest results… GPU acceleration works for transitions, supported video effects and 3rd party plugins… most of my edits dont have much of those to be honest.

Dell XPS 15″ 9350 i7, 512gb SSD, Nvidia 750m
Intel i7 4770, R9 290, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
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[John Rofrano]

[David Norman] “GPU acceleration works for transitions, supported video effects and 3rd party plugins…”

Yea, this is key to understand: Timeline GPU acceleration should work great with newer cards. It’s only the MainConcept encoders that only support the older GPUs.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Jeff Bauer]

Dave,

I really appreciate you taking the time to run a test. It sounds like you have a very nice computer for editing. I have heard a lot of good things about that video card so I will be anxious to see the results. I think John Rofrano created a 15 second test file that exercises would take advantage of the GPU.

Jeff

[David Norman]

Okay i got my 3930k rig built and working tonight with the R9 290 and I am rendering one of my wedding videos that is 10 mins long with 1080p 24fps high bit rate content.

If i render it with the mainconcept codec 1080p internet video 30p it pegs the CPU at 100% and uses no GPU. Render time is about 20 mins.

If i render it in the AVC Blu-Ray 16Mbps 24fps it is going to take about 11 mins. This is on par with the XVAC codec with similar bit-rate.

It is only using 60% of the CPU and fluctuates between 16%-70% GPU activity….. and 19gb of RAM 🙂

SSDs are not the bottleneck… I think the hardware is faster than the codec’s implementation with Sony Vegas here. I see no bottleneck and it isnt pegging the GPU or CPU….. disk read/writes are negligible and given that i am reading from a intel 520 SSD and writing to another intel 520 SSD I know that isnt the issue…

ill try and find that other file you are talking about and post my results here…. it isnt going to be until Monday night or Tuesday. It is my anniversary on Saturday and I will not be in town

Dell XPS 15″ 9350 i7, 512gb SSD, Nvidia 750m
Intel i7 4770, R9 290, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
https://youtube.com/adidas4275

[Jeff Bauer]

David,

First of all congratulations on your anniversary! These are awesome results thank you so much running the test! 11 minutes to render a 10 minute video at 1080p. I don’t think it gets much better than that. That is a nice set up you have.

I believe you can find John’s test file here: https://f1.creativecow.net/7248/vegas-pro-120-gpu-render-test-project

The thread that has other benchmarks with this file can be found here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/975715#976179

By the way I like your aerial videos. What are you using to get those?

Jeff

[John Rofrano]

Yea, congratulations on your anniversary! Interested in seeing your timing results.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[David Norman]

thanks for the link and ill run the test tomorrow afternoon. I did just buy a 290x tri-x to see if i can get a little more eyefinity gaming performance but i dont think it will really do much for render times. That wont be in my possession until the end of the week

My aerial stuff was shot on a handful of custom built rigs…. some quads, some Y6’s and a flax hex. I havent flown in about a year (since my son was born)…. i am looking at getting a DJI prebuilt for ease and flying a gopro… I enjoyed building and learning about rc stuff but i just dont have the same amount of time.

thanks for the compliments and ill post results tomorrow

Dell XPS 15″ 9350 i7, 512gb SSD, Nvidia 750m
Intel i7 4770, R9 290, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
https://youtube.com/adidas4275

[David Norman]

okay I ran the test video from John and here are my results.

Timeline playback with GPU on/off was at 29.97fps best full

Sony AVC internet 1080 30p CPU = 00:15
Sony AVC internet 1080 30p GPU = 00:15

MainConcept AVC CPU = 00:26
MainConcept AVC GPU = 00:26

but I didnt see much GPU utilization.

Interesting that in John’s post he has the opposite results in terms of codecs and speed. His showed MainConcept being much faster than Sony’s

something else is different here. john has the 3930k in his rig ans was posting render times around 1:00

I have it set on best full and know how to enable and disable GPU acceleration in the timeline as well as in the render as screen.

hmm….

Dell XPS 15″ 9350 i7, 512gb SSD, Nvidia 750m
Intel i7 4770, R9 290, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
https://youtube.com/adidas4275

[John Rofrano]

[David Norman] “Timeline playback with GPU on/off was at 29.97fps best full “

That’s odd because I didn’t think the CPU was capable of playing that project back at 29.97. Are you sure that your RAM Preview is set to the default 200MB? It’s important that you are measuring raw speed and not cached frames. Maybe try setting go to zero? I got 0.5fps with GPU acceleration turned off… how can you get 29.97?

[David Norman] “Interesting that in John’s post he has the opposite results in terms of codecs and speed. His showed MainConcept being much faster than Sony’s”

The difference is that I’m using an older Radeon HD 5870 that MainConcept AVC supports and you are using a newer Radeon R9 290 that, as we suspected, is not supported. So you have confirmed that the newer Radeon cards don’t make any difference in encoding speed with MainConcept AVC.

Also the Sony encoder did not show any difference for me either with OpenCL so that’s consistent but very strange.

Thanks for testing.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[David Norman]

I will double check ram preview and run it again a little later today.

Dell XPS 15″ 9350 i7, 512gb SSD, Nvidia 750m
Intel i7 3930K, R9 290, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
https://youtube.com/adidas4275