Video Cards

[John Rofrano]

[Ronald Budman] ” I am running three monitors on a NVIDA Quadro NVS 420. Will it help the performance of SVP if I unplug one of the monitors while doing videos. “

Probably not. The NVIDA Quadro NVS 420 is an extremely weak card with only 16 CUDA cores. By comparison, a $50 GeForce 9500 GT has 32 CUDA cores. That’s twice the amount. My Quadro 4000 has 256. I don’t think your card is going to boost your performance at all. It’s mean for business graphics and is just not powerful enough for 3D or video GPU acceleration.

~jr

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[Andy Thomas]

Hi John.

Stuck in darkest Africa, my video card details are the following.

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 11/12/2011 08:11:13
System name: HOTSHOTAV-PC

[Display]
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz (1729 MHz)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GT 330M
Driver version: 189.21
CUDA Cores: 48
Core clock: 575 MHz
Shader clock: 1265 MHz
Memory clock: 790 MHz (1580 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 128-bit
Total available graphics memory: 3807 MB
Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2783 MB
Video BIOS version: 70.16.5A.01.05
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2

Now with this card I do not get the option to enable the GPU to “ON”

Is it an insufficient card……or…????

[Dave Lozinski]

Andy,

Refer to this page:
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/vegaspro/gpuacceleration

Your nVidia card doesn’t qualify. Here’s what the webpage says:

NVIDIA
Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later with a GeForce GTX 4xx Series or higher GPU (or driver 285.62 or later with a GeForce GT 2xx Series or higher GPU).

Unfortunately you’re out of luck. You’ll have to upgrade your GPU to take advantage of the acceleration.

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[Ronald Budman]

This is what I thought. Do any of you have a recommendation on a card. I looked at Sony’s web site and am confused at to what I can buy at a reasonable price. I can’t afford to pay $1,500 and I really like having the three monitors.
Thanks

[Scott Francis]

I have both an NVIDIA FX4600 and FX1700 NEITHER work with the trial version of SVP11, kinda disappointed considering their price when I bought them. I am using drive 276.?? the most recent and no luck. The newest SVP11 was supposed to open up some older cards, but alas not mine….well, here is hoping maybe later!

Good Luck,

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Dave Lozinski]

Well, for starters we’d need to know what kind of system you have.

Desktop I’m assuming? Slot for one card or two? If not two, do you have an internal video port?

Or do you have a laptop with SLI (or similar technology)?

Instead of playing 20 questions, you can also do some research:

https://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&sugexp=ppwl&cp=13&gs_id=25&xhr=t&q=video+cards+that+support+3+monitors&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=video+cards+t&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a8e592f1ce8a2716&biw=1221&bih=848

Hope this helps!

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[Dave Haynie]

I bought both nVidia GTX570 and AMD Radeon HD6970. I found the Radeon to be faster at everything that GPUs did help with, in Vegas 11… and curiously, in each case, that speed was with a lower CPU use and lower GPU use. That suggests there might be more some improvements to come. My target was the $300-$350 range. The AMD was the lower cost of the two cards, by $20 or so.

And the nVidia only supports two monitors; the AMD supports a third, though it has to be DisplayPort (or something else, via an adapter). On the other hand, CUDA does have some more support than OpenCL, so it’s possible that the nVidia would accelerate other things. I decided that wasn’t important. Also, the video output from the nVidia on my system was poor, even over a digital interface — haven’t quite figured that one out yet.

-Dave

[Guillaume Jeffrey]

Andy,

I have the same system as you and it works.
Update to the latest nvidia driver and to the latest built of Vegas.

[Andy Thomas]

Thanks for that Guillaume.

Please can you direct me to where you got the latest nVidia driver, because as far as my automatic driver update program is concerned, my system is up to date.I installed SVP 11 build 425 yestrday, hoping,but no luck.

So what does Dave Lozinski have to say about this, I wonder.

[Guillaume Jeffrey]

Andy,
Go to Nvidia.com website and select the latest driver available (should be 285.??).
In yr post above you are using the driver version 189, that’s why it doesn’t work.