GeForce 320.49 Driver

Harold Brown wrote on 7/7/2013, 10:02 PM
I read several posts here and on other sites and I was getting mixed messages about the nVidia 660 card. So this might not be news to anyone.
I downloaded the GeForce 320.49 Driver for my GTX 660 Ti card and the render is taking advantage of the card.

I rendered the Press Release Project with "GPU Acceleration of video processing" both on and off.
Sony AVC/MVC MP4 Internet 1920x180 30p
Render time with Acceleration Off: 2:02 min
Render time with Acceleration On: 1:26 min
Render time with Acceleration On: 1:17 min (SLI)

I saw GPU usage jump from 1-4% with acceleration off to 40%+ with it on not using SLI.
With SLI I saw usage more balanced out between the cards, but sometimes there were jumps into high 30's and low forties on card 2.

Just bought the desktop I am using on July 2nd, I7-4770K on ASRock Z87 Extreme4 MB.

Comments

OldSmoke wrote on 7/7/2013, 10:17 PM
Here are some render tests from my GTX570 with 296.10 driver:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=859391

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)

Lovelight wrote on 7/7/2013, 10:33 PM
Harold, what manufacturer is the maker of your card? Asus, EVGA, or something else.
Harold Brown wrote on 7/8/2013, 8:11 PM
I have two 660 cards installed and run SLI.
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 660 Ti AMP! Edition 2GB [ZT-60804-10P]
OldSmoke wrote on 7/8/2013, 9:39 PM
@Harold
I have two GTX570 cards in my system I tried SLI but that isnt well supported under Vegas. I found that I can render faster and also my system is more stable if I don't enable SLI for Vegas. You can leave the bridge installed by try disabling SLI and do a render test again. The difference in render times on my system are 30% faster with SLI completely turned off. You can set the SLI in the Nvidia control panel and gradually better; from the slowest being SLI on, to multi display and the fastest is SLI disabled.

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)

Harold Brown wrote on 7/8/2013, 9:47 PM
For me SLI is slightly faster that non SLI. I updated my original post with the info. I haven't looked at timings for anything other than the benchmark project.
Lovelight wrote on 7/8/2013, 10:51 PM
Cool, Thanks for the info.