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Chienworks wrote on 8/3/2010, 6:38 PM
What do you want to accomplish? 3D rendering? Gaming? Texture mapping? Special effects in 3rd party packages? For most of these tasks you may not notice much difference.

On the other hand, if you're wanting to make use of the new GPU-enabled features of Vegas, then the ATI card won't do a thing for you. Vegas only uses CUDA.
s k r o o t a y p wrote on 8/8/2010, 9:47 PM
<<the new GPU-enabled features of Vegas>>

haven't really gotten that far to know what these features are honestly. more wondering if the ATI card will inhibit the basic use of VMS 10.
Craig Longman wrote on 8/8/2010, 10:28 PM
The GPU stuff seems to only apply to rendering via AVC at this point, but it does appear to be CUDA (nVidia) only. I don't think there are any plans to support CTM (ATI) at all.

Not having a CUDA card though, won't inhibit anything. You should only see an improvement if you do have one.

I have an ATI 4550, and VMS runs fine for me. Although I've been a staunch supporter of ATI for a long time, nVidia really have done things right with CUDA, and I will likely replace both the cards in my machine with nVidia in the near future.

If you were buying new, with the intent of NLE as a primary purpose, I think a CUDA card would be the smartest choice.

Chienworks wrote on 8/9/2010, 7:42 AM
I imagine a video card that only supported 6 bit color at 800x600 would inhibit the basic use of Vegas. Any card that can handle at least 16 bit color at 1024x768 would be sufficient for running it just fine. This means that basically any card made in the last 15 years or costs more than $3 is ok and won't inhibit you at all.
s k r o o t a y p wrote on 8/9/2010, 4:06 PM
just to double check, i *will* be rendering AVC. are we still safe to say the ATI is a good fit?

thanks!
Editguy43 wrote on 8/9/2010, 5:39 PM
If you want to use the CUDA (GPU enabled render for AVC ) than you will need a Nvidia card and I am not sure if the 9100 will even work, you will need to check what cards are Cuda enabled.

ATI will not GPU render.

Edit
Here is s list of CUDA enabled cards...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html

Edit 2
http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

I just found this article on Cuda cards ( it is for Adobe CS5 ) but it explains how to unlock it to work with lower end cards, but it also lists how many cuda cores each card has and rather they recommend them or not. Might help might not.....


Paul B
Chienworks wrote on 8/9/2010, 6:47 PM
You can edit and render anything with any video card. It's just that with the ATI you won't get the GPU render speed boost when using AVCHD. It'll still work fine, just a little slower than if you had a CUDA card.
s k r o o t a y p wrote on 8/9/2010, 7:29 PM
thanks for all the info/ insights. clears it up for me. really appreciate it!

david