[Marc Gutt]

A friend of mine tested the GTX 1070 and it finished the benchmark in 2:34 in CC17.

[Marc Gutt]

Now, I tested a Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX. A low power full passive card. Adding it to the supported cards was easy, but the Raytracing was disabled. But finally I found someone (idmee.id/2017/05/adobe-after-effect-cc-2017-update-april.html) providing a changed optix.dll for Adobe CC. I tried the “Optix only” Download and used it for After Effects CS6 and it worked:

GTX 1050 Ti 5:30

PC Setup:
Haxx Case 0.1 (full passive)
SuperMicro C7Z170-M
Intel i5-6600T
16 GB RAM
Palit GTX 1050 Ti KalmX
Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256GB

The pc consumes 17 watts in idle and 86 watts during the benchmark.

[Marc Gutt]

[Ian Mapleson] “What motherboard are you using?”

Its the Asrock Z77 Extreme 4. Two cards fit, but the power supply is to weak. Because of that only one benchmark:

MSI GTX 580 Lightning Extreme
5:15
Screenshot:
https://www.maxrev.de/adobe-after-effects-benchmark-gtx-580-bild-426420.htm

[Marc Gutt]

[Ian Mapleson] “Someone posted a quicker 780 Ti a ways back, but I think that was for a heftily oc’d card.”

Yes. The complete system of ali was OC:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/1050061

P.S. I’ve paid for the MSI GTX580 EX cards. Now I’m waiting for the delivery. The two cards cost 210,- EUR (ca. $ 235,-) incl. shipping. Compared to the last ebay auctions ($120, $128, $136) this is a good price.

[Marc Gutt]

[Simon Gomes] “The problem with the 760 is that it have 1152 cuda, so it’s should be less quicker than the 780.”

Look at the details of the GTX 670
1344 CUDA Cores
915 Mhz Graphics Clock
980 Mhz Processor Clock

An now the benchmark found in this thread:
2GB GTX 670 6min 43s

As you can see this card is much slower with similar clockrates compared to the GTX 780 Ti. I think the memory bandwidth is an additional important spec and GTX 670/GTX 760 have the same (256-bit GDDR5 192.2 GB/sec).

My guess is, that the GTX 760 is only 5% faster or as fast as the GTX 670.

[Marc Gutt]

[Simon Gomes] “So it is better to take the MATRIX 780ti, the asus strix 780 6g or the EVGA 760 4g who have better clock but less cuda core?”

Benchmarks of this thread:
780 4:43
780 3:29
780 4:01
780 Ti 2:21

Nobody posted a benchmark of the GTX 760, but as you can see the 780 Ti is much faster than the rest.

The GTX 760 is nearly as fast as the GTX 580, but as the GTX 580 has only 512 CUDA cores the GTX 760 should be the better option for Adobe. What do you think Ian?

One advantage of the GTX 760 is a little bit less power consumption compared to the GTX 580 (-20%) and it supports a higher resolution.

[Marc Gutt]

[Ian Mapleson] “I think the Phantom uses 2.5 slots”

Yes, you’re right. I found an image:
https://www.hardwarezone.com.ph/review-gainward-gtx-580-phantom-3-1536mb-phantom-menace

The Palit is 2 slots?

[Marc Gutt]

[Ian Mapleson] “By ‘good 580’ I mean models such as the MSI Lightning Xtreme 3GB (832MHz default core,
overclocks to between 900 and 1000 no problem, I run mine at 900 or 950 depending on
the ambient temp). Standard 580s include the Palit 3GB with a 783MHz core, these are
louder, with a slower base clock, and they can’t oc beyond about 900MHz (for the Palit,
1075mV vcore worked with mine).”

MSI Lightning XE are rare to find in Germany. The last one was sold in the UK and at the moment there is only one auction in the US. But maybe I found two in Austria 😀

The same problem with Palit cards. In Germany you will find much more Gainward cards, but they should be the same (Palit is the parent company of Gainward). Most people like the low loudness of the Gainward.

The very last option would be the Asus DirectCUII, but its huge:
https://www.hardwareheaven.com/content/reviews/graphics-cards/28928/asus-geforce-gtx-580-directcu-ii-vs-gainward-geforce-gtx-580-phantom-3-graphics-card-review/4

[Marc Gutt]

First I repeat the suggestion of Ian:
“In that case go for a 780, 780 Ti, or multiple 580s. Or of course multiple 780/Ti cards
if the budget permits.”

In this thread nobody uses the 770. So I can’t find a AE benchmark time. But in total its much slower than a 780 Ti (or 970):
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+770

Beside that you should consider buying two used cards as the 700 series cards aren’t build anymore and the 780 Ti won’t fit your budget if you buy it new (except you find a really cheap clearing stock). Or buy only one this time.

My last suggestion is to buy a card with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. Without DP I would never buy the card as it is much less future proof. Some new monitors support only HDMI or DP and 4K is only possible through DP or HDMI 2.0 (Only the 900 series supports this HDMI version).

Only for your interest: I will buy two used 580 as they are much cheapier than one 780.

[Marc Gutt]

You can see the raytraced error in the video itself. This video is a joke. Read the comments and you find out that the author opened a ticket at the nvidia support website.

P.s. you need to do similar steps to use a GTX 780 with CS6, but it uses the Keppler architecture like the supported GTX 580 so it results no problems. The GTX 970 uses a complete different architecture called Maxwell. There will never be an official update through Adobe for CS6 as it is an old version of a program.

The only option would be a driver update through nvidia but I don’t think this will result a fast encoding/rendering.