AMD GPUs for rendering?

AnandaT wrote on 4/19/2018, 9:30 AM

I had a quick question regarding GPU rendering:
Can AMD cards be used for that, in particular on Vegas 15?

 

The FAQ mainly mentions NVENC and QSV (so Nvidia GPU, or Intel Integrated I think) for the AVC codec.

The same FAQ mentions AMD cards (OpenCL) for the older Vegas versions (14 and below). That uses the 'Legacy GPU Render' option in the software's settings?

 

Cheers

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OldSmoke wrote on 4/19/2018, 9:57 AM

I had a quick question regarding GPU rendering:
Can AMD cards be used for that, in particular on Vegas 15?

 

The FAQ mainly mentions NVENC and QSV (so Nvidia GPU, or Intel Integrated I think) for the AVC codec.

The same FAQ mentions AMD cards (OpenCL) for the older Vegas versions (14 and below). That uses the 'Legacy GPU Render' option in the software's settings?

 

Cheers


VP15 does not yet support AMD's VCE but an AMD card will be used for anything that OpenCL, FX processing and so on.

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Kinvermark wrote on 4/19/2018, 10:34 AM

+1 . The gpu processing of certain effects can make a big improvement. E.g. Filmconvert using openCL gpu renders 5x faster than CPU only, and timeline playback goes from 1fps to 24 fps (project setting) using GPU. (Using old amd r9 290).