AMD Radeon Pro WX series

Tomahawk wrote on 9/25/2017, 7:41 PM

Hello Everybody,

I'm thinking about buying a GPU card because I started working with 10bit video files recently and found that the i7-4790 processor is not enough. The AMD Radeon Pro WX series seems promising, but I found very little info about them on this forum. Can anybody recommend it? Will it work well with Vegas Pro 15?

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OldSmoke wrote on 9/25/2017, 8:31 PM

I believe VP15, as of now, supports NVIDIA cards better, maybe some else can confirm that?

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

NormanPCN wrote on 9/25/2017, 9:17 PM

What does "supports" mean. The Vegas video engine has always worked better on AMD in the past. We would need tests to see if that has changed. That is of course used for editing and render as. The red car project could be a good test. By design it uses a lot of effects to exercise the video engine. Maybe a version with sources scaled to UHD to stress the system harder.

As for AVC file encoders. Yes, as of now NVENC is supported and the AMD AVC encoder is not supported as yet. Quicksync AVC encode is supported. Even plain simple media can exercise an encoder.

Quicksync is supposedly supported for AVC decode. Not sure about NVDEC.

I am on the fence about V15 otherwise I would have tested some of this already.

Former user wrote on 9/26/2017, 11:40 AM

NormanPCN, Tomahawk, I agree with Norman, re: red car test, or similar, new test project. Maybe though Tomahawk wait for the new Vegas updates for Amd cards, then do some testing. The key is to have a consistent testing regime, not everyone going off and doing their own thing.

Although what testing thats done already is better than nothing, whats needed is a test project, just one, and everyone for example using default values to get somewhat comparable results. Because systems will always vary, setting defaults will help. Defaults using different cards will probably not be egsactly the same, but close enough.

The only problem with a uhd 4K test project is it'll be a very big download, unless its of very short duration, and even then ...

Perhaps someone could modify the 2k Red car project as it is to stress modern systems a lot more?

ddm wrote on 9/26/2017, 1:20 PM

I have been playing with the original red car project and here are some results in V15 with an AMD R9 390 with the latest driver. Starting playback at the :25 marker I get full 29.97 frames in Best/Full preview with GPU (Hawaii) on. With Intel 4600 GPU I get 17 to 19 fps in the heavily composited sections. With GPU OFF, I get 5-11 fps is the same dense sections. V15 seems to be giving me around the exact same Preview acceleration that I was getting in V13 across the board, as far as Preview acceleration goes. Rendering with QSV to the Magix AVC codec is the fastest render times I've ever got, 21 to 22 seconds for the whole Red Car render. I think the best I ever got before (when I had an Nvidia 570 card) was in the mid thirties.