Going from 2GB to 4GB graphics card

Deuce wrote on 12/6/2018, 6:32 PM

I have a GeForce GTX 950 2GB and find it pretty choppy when scrubbing HD clips in trimmer as well as just general sluggishness when editing and playing the timeline.

Will I see a significant difference if I upgrade to a 4GB GeForce 9xx or 10xx?

Vegas 16 (307), Win10, i7 920, 16GB RAM

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Kinvermark wrote on 12/6/2018, 7:17 PM

I would future proof and go for 8 GB. AMD rx 580's are a great deal right now. Used ones (buy local and check card) can be had for as little as $150 USD equivalent in my area.

karma17 wrote on 12/6/2018, 7:32 PM

IDK if this will help you, but it is interesting to View the results.

http://render.otoy.com/octanebench/results.php

Deuce wrote on 12/6/2018, 8:30 PM

I would future proof and go for 8 GB. AMD rx 580's are a great deal right now. Used ones (buy local and check card) can be had for as little as $150 USD equivalent in my area.

I'm hoping on getting a new system some time next year and was going to wait til then to get a 8GB card. Just trying to give my existing system a little more oomph. :)

Kinvermark wrote on 12/6/2018, 10:02 PM

Next year looks very interesting for GPU's and CPU's as AMD offers 7nm chip technology that looks super fast and relatively inexpensive. Also, crypto-mining has collapsed so the weird hyper-demand for GPU's has dropped like a stone - and prices are sure to follow.

Deuce wrote on 12/7/2018, 6:33 PM

I'm still curious to know if I will see some significant difference in Vegas if I go from 2GB to 4GB card.

Kinvermark wrote on 12/7/2018, 6:44 PM

Too many variables to say for sure. I think you will see a marginal improvement at best due to your older CPU. However, the best would be to test... maybe buy from somewhere with a generous return policy?

Kinvermark wrote on 12/7/2018, 6:45 PM

Alternatively, use proxies or intermediates that are better for scrubbing (ie cineform, MagicYUV, XAVC-intra) then you don't have to spend a dime until you do you "big" upgrade later.

fr0sty wrote on 12/9/2018, 12:15 PM

It would only matter if your performance was being seriously bottlenecked by available VRAM. That might be the case, but from what I gather, there wasn't a huge improvement in encoding performance on the GeForce cards from the 9xx to the 10xx series, but the 20xxRTX series did include a big improvement in OpenCL performance, so you will get much better timeline acceleration performance if you use that card with Vegas.

In other words, save your money, skip a generation. Or you can go the AMD route as suggested above, but I'm still inclined to like Nvidia.