Changed my Video Card....

D7K wrote on 5/19/2014, 11:22 AM

For the past 5 years I had been using an AMD 5550 and I left GPU off as it was not at fast as my AMD 6 core. I changed to an AMD5750 (needed a low power card) and two things. It is now 25% faster in rendering long videos and I can finally use the NewBlue Titler - it would hang when using my 5550. For a $100 video card, I am really happy as I can tell the difference in both Movie studio and PS/LR cc.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/20/2014, 12:44 AM

Another upgrade worth the effort is installing your OS and Vegas on a SSD. You do need to re-install your whole system, but the result is a much more stable, crash free editing station.

D7K wrote on 5/20/2014, 9:50 AM

I'm sure it would be faster, but I've not had a crash with either MS12 or 13 so I'm staying the course (My C: drive is a 3 TB and I have two other 3 TB drives) and I have lots of programs and don't want to take the day or 3 it would take to reinstall.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/22/2014, 9:43 AM

This week I upgraded my graphics card, and it turned out to be a waste of time an d money.
My original card: MSI N520GT 1Gb DDR3 (bought in 2011 for €42)
render time of a project: 3min 42 secs

New card: Asus GT640 L 1Gb DDR5 (bought this week for €91)
render time of same project: 4 min 15 secs

My old card has 48 cuda cores, my new card has about 350 cuda cores.

I can't explain the longer render times...

David Laine wrote on 5/22/2014, 10:41 AM

Hi

I have seen a lot of posts here and in the vegas pro forum saying the same or similar when uses try more modern card.

a search should bring up some of them

As an aside I have wanted to see faster render speeds in movie and vegas for ages

I found Intel quicksync did it for me best of all it uses the CPU so it did not cost me any money

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/23/2014, 2:07 AM

Just want to add that the performance when it comes to 3D games is much better now; just not so for the Vegas cuda enabled mainconcept templates...