I'm running a new i7 Haswell with 16 Gigs or RAM, RAID drives and Vegas 12.
In render testing, AVCHD and XDCAM to DNxHD, I have noticed that CPU utilization across all cores stays below 50% with short spikes here and there to 60-70%. (This is with GPU acceleration turned off). With GPU acceleration turned on, CPU drops down to about 30% across all cores.
Questions:
1.) Why is Vegas not driving CPU usage much higher? (I'm running on liquid cooling and I'd like to see Vegas peg the meter!)
2.) Is "GPU acceleration" an addition to CPU rendering or is it a replacement for CPU rendering? (it certainly seems to lower CPU utilization quiet a bit)
Note, changing the processor priority in Windows Task Manager from "normal" to "high" or even "real time" makes no difference.
In render testing, AVCHD and XDCAM to DNxHD, I have noticed that CPU utilization across all cores stays below 50% with short spikes here and there to 60-70%. (This is with GPU acceleration turned off). With GPU acceleration turned on, CPU drops down to about 30% across all cores.
Questions:
1.) Why is Vegas not driving CPU usage much higher? (I'm running on liquid cooling and I'd like to see Vegas peg the meter!)
2.) Is "GPU acceleration" an addition to CPU rendering or is it a replacement for CPU rendering? (it certainly seems to lower CPU utilization quiet a bit)
Note, changing the processor priority in Windows Task Manager from "normal" to "high" or even "real time" makes no difference.