I suggested he wait an update or two as I don't see much change from 19 in this regard. I think he wants to test it on new hardware sooner though and that would be useful (thinking about a new system myself).

I tried to figure out what he was talking about in his last article and found no issues with any of the fx listed as gpu accelerated. Only fx I found to be screwy was the Style Transfer ai fx, which should work with or without gpu assistance. I have the feeling that the problem there is an Intel issue only they can resolve.

I do think it's important for Vegas to be included in the testing of hardware over at Techgage. It gives Vegas some much needed exposure.

I wonder if @Deathspawner (Rob Williams) is in touch to the Vegas programming team with his issues.

H.264 decoding/encoding benchmark . With these tests, Resolve most likely causes no bottlenecks and the results are the maximum decoding/encoding performance of the hardware. Arc decoding worse than IGPU which I think is what @Howard-Vigorita concluded also.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Intel-Arc-A750-A770-Content-Creation-Review-2376/#DaVinciResolveStudio-H_264DecodingandEncoding

I do think it's important for Vegas to be included in the testing of hardware over at Techgage. It gives Vegas some much needed exposure.

I wonder if @Deathspawner (Rob Williams) is in touch to the Vegas programming team with his issues.

I am in touch, and they have been hugely accommodating in the past. Once I get some initial GPU testing done, I'll reach out to them with some details - unless I get lucky and everything happens to scale fine.

GPU aside, I'll have some VP20 CPU performance next week w/ AMD Zen 4 and Intel 13th-gen Core. I don't think that's as interesting as GPU, but it's something (and probably safer than GPU right now, by the sounds of it, haha.)

Also, thank you for your continued support.

I think that's very interesting (considering building a 13th gen system) so look forward to it!

H.264 decoding/encoding benchmark . With these tests, Resolve most likely causes no bottlenecks and the results are the maximum decoding/encoding performance of the hardware. Arc decoding worse than IGPU which I think is what @Howard-Vigorita concluded also.

@Former user I don't think I looked too closely at avc/h.264 decoding before. But you got me wondering so I concocted a near-lossless avc clip from the lossless hevc clip I usually test with. Used ffmpeg to transcode it to 8-bit avc so it could be decoded in hardware. Made it with this powershell script:

$IN = "hevc-lossless-an.mov"
$OUT = "nearLL-avc8bit.mp4"
ffmpeg -i "$IN" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 1 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v high -level:v 4.0 -y "$OUT"

I've now got arc380 cards in my 9900k and 11900k systems with the igpus disabled in bios. Ran the arc times that way. Activated the igpus to time them while disabling the arc boards in the device manager. Here's what I got:

9900k xdcam ex 30p 1080p: arc: 0:19; igpu: 0:17

9900k MainConcept 30p 2160p: arc: 1:34; igpu: 1:34

9900k Qsv 30p 2160p: arc: 0:23; igpu: 0:25

11900k xdcam ex 30p 1080p: arc: 0:14; igpu: 0:15

11900k MainConcept 30p 2160p: arc: 1:23; igpu: 1:23

11900k Qsv 30p 2160p: arc: 0:19; igpu: 0:26

They all came out pretty close on decoding with the 9900k/uhd630 only edging out the arc on hd xdcam. On combo qsv encoding/decoding, the 11900k/uhd750 was significantly slower. And no faster than the 9900k/uhd630.

I also tested Arc hardware av1 encoding using Voukoder. Rendered at the same speed as hevc-qsv . And YouTube took it without issue.

Btw, I could see Resolve Studio doing a little hyper action when I had both the Arc and the uhd750 active at the same time... there was utilization in both the arc and igpu. Vegas just uses the igpu and ignores the arc for qsv rendering and legacy-hevc decoding which is why I disable the igpu. The arc is significantly faster at both of those things. I also tested Vegas with 2 arcs and it also ignores the 2nd one so I pulled it. If Vegas implements Intel hyper, I'll put another arc board that I have back in.

@Deathspawner looking forward to your results with all this new hardware that you will be testing!

@Howard-Vigorita Is that test file you're using 920 frames?

One thing I've noticed if I compare Vegas and Resolve with 4K AVC source files, Vegas's GPU decoder via (NVDEC) is only capable for being driven at around 60% bit of pulsing above that, but Resolve averages 90%, pulsing to 99%, this puts a cap on Vegas encoding speeds at around 100fps, turn the decoder off, about 140fps, but I was limited by CPU.

Resolve as a comparison did 180-190fps using decoder, and 250fps with decoder turned off. Vegas need to improve both the render engine, and the decoder. Maybe that will be the one package when they do the update. It's good having all these figures with different cards to make comparisons with future update