AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X CPU vs Vegas Pro

marcinzm wrote on 8/20/2022, 10:01 AM

Hello,

What are you experience with working with AMD processors when you mostly use these AMD CPU for rendering videos?
Do you have some bad experience with AMD processor working on Windows 10 at some general way?

I would like to purchase AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, but I have been working in all versions of Vegas Pro on Intel CPUs.

Can you share me with your thoughts?
Is AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X "compatible" with Vegas Pro 20?
I worry of crashes during renderings etc.

Do you know some German, UK shop where I can purchase this AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, because in Poland it is not available at all.

Please help me

Regards
Marcin

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Former user wrote on 8/21/2022, 5:20 PM

'will play video in 200 Mbps 4K 4:2:2 10bit 50p more fluent and smooth.'

' So I still don`t know why other forum users don`t have problems with smooth playback of the same video file'

@marcinzm

Hi, are you talking about the same files in these two comments? if so can you share one of those, i just went briefly back through your posts but the wedding vid is 4:2:0, 8bit.

Former user wrote on 8/21/2022, 5:49 PM

@Former user So I still don`t know why other forum users don`t have problems with smooth playback of the same video file having similar GPUs, but I do still have. My GPU is in top 10-15 most efficient GPUs on market, but it has still problem with smooth playback.

@marcinzm It's more of a CPU efficiency problem. HEVC is a big problem where Vegas can only access a small portion of your CPU for playback, but even with AVC, where it can use 100% of your CPU it's not efficient at playback compared to other NLE's. The other problem is the GPU decoder causing lag, recognized by a large spike in the GPU Decoder activity while the preview lags. All those things add up to cause a lower quality experience. It has very little to do with GPUs and certainly not a powerful GPU like a 2080ti.

These trusted helper people you see on the forum go through the same steps to assist people with problems such that you have due to a possibility there is something to fix , but when your system is running fine, good drivers, good hardware, and Vegas settings are correct there's nothing more to do, it's in Vegas's hands to improve playback.