Considering from AMD to Nividia

JoeAustin wrote on 7/15/2018, 11:43 AM

I'm considering replacing my AMD R9 380 card with an Nvidia card. Among other reasons, the driver conflicts with the photoshop print dialog, making it almost unusable. Well documented issue others have too. I don't usually GPU rendering, and was considering a Geforce 1060 3GB card.

My question is, does it make sense to spend any more for a higher end Geforce model? I know on previous versions of VP, there was little or no benefit. But on the latest versions of VP15, the support for Nvidia cards was improved. Any thoughts on this from users that made the same switch would be appreciated.

 

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fr0sty wrote on 7/15/2018, 1:09 PM

I always say spend the extra, get the better... Better to have it and not need it than the other way around. The better cards will have more RAM, which does help in GPGPU computations (I'm currently bottlenecked in Cinema 4D's pro-render because my GPU only has 4GB RAM, and in order to render a scene using the GPU, the entire scene must fit into the GPU's RAM).

 

I switched from AMD to Nvidia years back and haven't regretted it. AMD is showing better performance with Vegas currently, though, as it does better timeline acceleration.

OldSmoke wrote on 7/15/2018, 3:23 PM

I switched from AMD to Nvidia years back and haven't regretted it.

I have done the opposite and I don't regret it either as timeline performance is much better and now VCE is supported too.

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)

JoeAustin wrote on 7/15/2018, 5:38 PM

I switched from AMD to Nvidia years back and haven't regretted it.

I have done the opposite and I don't regret it either as timeline performance is much better and now VCE is supported too.

That's one of my concerns. I'd hate to loose timeline playback performance. I wonder if anyone has done benchmarks of Nvidia VS ATI on the recent builds?

OldSmoke wrote on 7/15/2018, 6:58 PM

I switched from AMD to Nvidia years back and haven't regretted it.

I have done the opposite and I don't regret it either as timeline performance is much better and now VCE is supported too.

That's one of my concerns. I'd hate to loose timeline playback performance. I wonder if anyone has done benchmarks of Nvidia VS ATI on the recent builds?

I would wait for the PS CC problem to get resolved. A R9 390 is not a bad card at all for Vegas and it seems that the print dialogue issue in PS CC is not exclusive to AMD from what I read.

 

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)

JoeAustin wrote on 7/16/2018, 9:36 AM

I would wait for the PS CC problem to get resolved. A R9 390 is not a bad card at all for Vegas and it seems that the print dialogue issue in PS CC is not exclusive to AMD from what I read.

 

I think the hardware is pretty solid. Some say it's an issue with the AMD driver, as some with earlier drivers claim not to have the problem. ATI/AMD have a long history of fine hardware and problematic drivers. Adobe has a rich history of breaking things and ignoring the problem.

I may just hold out a bit longer and see.