Got the GTX570

CorTed wrote on 10/22/2011, 8:14 PM

Since I had a GT8800 video card, the new Vegas 11 made me upgrade my graphics card to fully utilize the new CUDA capabilities.
I was leaning towards a new GTX580($490), but eneded up with a GTX570 ($299)
due to a better cost.
After installation of the card I started to play with Vegas.
I mainly edit HD content from my Sony CV700 (AVCHD).
I am very impressed with the preview speed, pretty much real time and the render speed seems stepped up quite a bit as well. (i7-920 3.5G with 12G RAM)

I also played around a bit with the New Blue titler, and I must say that plug-in is quite a step up from the 'older' pro titler and will allow you to make some really nice animated titles. I will definitely spend some time with it to create some neat stuff.

Eventhough I have not done any official benchmarking, by just looking at the responses of the preview and the various renders I did today I am impressed.

For me the upgrade of Vegas 11 and my new GTX570 were well worth it.

Ted

Comments

Sebaz wrote on 10/22/2011, 10:17 PM

When you say preview speed is real time, can you give a few more details? For example, are you using preview quality best and full size? And, does the playback stay at full speed even with filters applied, through transitions and pan&crop animations?

Also, you know that little pause at the end of an event or the beginning of a new one, mostly when editing AVCHD? Do you still see that or does it play smoothly at event cuts?

Thanks

CorTed wrote on 10/22/2011, 11:34 PM

I am using Preview on Best (Auto) and I am displaying full screen on my secondary display. It plays the AVCHD files along with most all transitions/wipes at 29.97.
I do have a section which I have various layes (10) of pan crop where preview degrades down to 10 or below.
When I set preview to Preview(Auto) it will actually preview that section at around 22
I guess the more you throw on the timeline regarding effects or pan crops will degrade the preview, but if you want a decent playback I am able to take it down from best to Preview quality and gives me enough smooth playback to edit properly

AVCHD previews smoothly (29.97) at the beginning/end of an event including transitions on Best(Auto). If its just cuts or transitions AVCHD it plays 29.97 on Best (Full)

I certainly was not able to do this with my GT8800

Ted

Sebaz wrote on 10/23/2011, 12:49 AM

Thanks for the details. What happens if you set the preview to Best or Good but at Full and you play events which have some color correction, for example some levels and the 3 way color corrector with some saturation? Does it still play 29.97 all the time?

John_Cline wrote on 10/23/2011, 1:16 AM

Which brand and model# of GTX570 did you purchase? Now that it actually makes a difference what video card one runs, it's time to move the pair of GTS450 cards I've been running to some other machine. I've had really good luck with Gigabyte video cards and I'm about to pull the trigger on this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125382

One can overclock this card quite a bit and I really need all the rendering speed it can get.

CorTed wrote on 10/23/2011, 10:28 AM

John,
I got this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162070

Actually purchased at Microcenter (local store) for $299.

I am quite surprised at eventhough they are all GTX570,s there are so many different flavors.

Ted

Mindmatter wrote on 10/23/2011, 10:57 AM

Their naming / numbering system is not only totally confusing, as the higher numbers don't necessarily equal a higher performance model, they also have like almost a dozen models per type...
http://www.pcspezialist.de/factfinder/?q=gtx+570&submit=

sorry German site but you get the idea...

GaryAshorn wrote on 4/6/2012, 1:35 PM

I am looking to upgrade my video card from a GT8800 to the GTX 570 for VV11. I see a few here have used the GTX 570. This thread is a few months old. Anyone have comments since going to the this card and VV11? Much appreciated.

Gary

NicolSD wrote on 4/6/2012, 2:13 PM

I had it for a while and loved it. The only reason I moved up to the 580 is because it is noticeably faster and the future looks dark for folks like us as far as I can see. Although the GTX 680 has nearly 3 times as many CUDA cores as a 580, it suffers from the fact that the architecture has been changed in favor of gamers but people who use it for rendering. It seems that a lot of the computing power has been removed from the GPU and passed on to the driver. Maybe the AMD cards will pick up where NVidia left us. Who knows?

GaryAshorn wrote on 4/6/2012, 3:33 PM

Thanks for the info. Guess the question is if the 580 is better than the 570 and the 590 is even better, why not go with the 590. $$$ for one thing versus would it give me anything I truly need for video work compared to a lesser card. I assume any of these work well with an Intensity Pro. I would like to do my preview out on a good LCD instead of the little preview window on my editing screen. I will have to find my best price on them and see what is worth the $$$. Hope to hear from others and their thoughts on this. Thanks.

Gary

NicolSD wrote on 4/6/2012, 8:25 PM

A few months ago, I was thinking along the same line as you regarding the use of two GPUs. From what I understand, Vegas Pro cannot take advantage of a dual GPU card. In February, I sent a question to the SCS technical guys if Vegas could take advantage of two cards connected via SLI. They told me no.

I recently took a look at the list of video cards supported by Premiere Pro and the 590 is not on the list. So it's not just a Vegas thing.

CorTed wrote on 4/7/2012, 12:39 AM

Gary, the 570 is still working pretty good for me.
Hard to keep up with nVidia's constant driver updates, but I am running pretty clean
not too many crashes....

Stringer wrote on 4/7/2012, 6:22 PM

FWIW The GTX 560 Ti 448 ( 448 CUDA Cores ), approaches 570 - 580 performance .

Here is a good deal that includes a $30 rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130738

DrLumen wrote on 4/7/2012, 11:36 PM

I just got the MSI (TwinFrozr) version of the GTX560Ti - as a coincidence also from Microcenter. I can't comment on the advantage to Vegas as I'm still using an older version. But, so far, no problems with the card and it definitely helped my system. I was upgrading from a 4850 so...