Survey of GPU’s for Vegas Pro 11.0

[Craig Meeks]

I have the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti and it works great. Renderining is as fast or faster than my processor i7 x990.

Craig Meeks
Video Editor – South Coast Editing
http://www.southcoastediting.com

[Mark Barton]

GPU: NVIDIA GTX570
Drivers: 306.23
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Status: Working

[Jim Johnson]

I have the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 (2 GB GDDR5 GPU Memory)

Gateway FX6840 Intel Core i7 860 2.8Ghz
8 GB RAM
64 Bit Windows 7

GPU Acceleraation does appear to work (it gives me the option to activate it, anway), but I have no idea how to tell if it improves performance or not. The only thing I could think of was to do a render test, but that must not use the GPU Acceleration, since footage that took 21:09 (min:sec) with GPU Acceleration OFF took 21:14 – with GPU Acceleration ON. You read that right. GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds. (My math tells me it’s only 4 10ths of a percent slower, but still…)

[Steve Rhoden]

Seems your computer processing power is more
than that of your graphics card Jim.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Johnson] “The only thing I could think of was to do a render test, but that must not use the GPU Acceleration, since footage that took 21:09 (min:sec) with GPU Acceleration OFF took 21:14 – with GPU Acceleration ON. You read that right. GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds. (My math tells me it’s only 4 10ths of a percent slower, but still…)”

If you are talking about the GPU acceleration that is enabled in Options | Preferences | Video, then that won’t affect a render unless you have GPU accelerated FX on the timeline.

The render acceleration is turned on and off in the render template. Take an encoder that benefits from the GPU like MainCencept AVC/AAC and select one of the Internet templates. Then edit the template and turn GPU acceleration off and time it. Then edit the template again and turn GPU acceleration on and tell us what times your seeing.

~jr

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

[Jim Johnson]

My comment from earlier: “GPU acceleration slowed it down by 5 seconds.”

I’m wondering now if it could simply be that processing power was never the bottleneck. I’ll upgrade my HD, then come back here & post how the GPU acceleration works.

[Harry Maathuis]

GPU: AMD Radeon HD5750
Drivers: Catalyst 12.8
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Status: Not Working (GPU turned off, lot off hangs and crashes)

CPU i7920
RAM: 12 GB

[Rick Altizer]

GeForce GTX 560 – Does Not work – Vegas won’t even load with this card in.
NVIDIA Quadro 600 – Vegas will load with this card in.
Any rendering with GPU acceleration hangs 1/2 way through.

Rendering 1920 x 1080 main concept MP4
With GPU acceleration enabled in preferences – 8:58
GPU Acceleration OFF in preferences – 5:04

i7 quad core 3.5 ghz, 32 gig ram,

GPU Acceleration slows down render with Quadro 600 card.

[Rikki Daman]

AMD 6870 (Sapphire card) 1024MB

Works perfectly with Vegas and the Sony Encoder for MP4

I bought it with my new PC as its the one they specified in the Vegas Pro 11 GPU web page.

I can render out a project in less than real time. Eg: 7 min video done in 5 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp3jatkxlQU for instance

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