Recommended Graphics cards

LongJohn wrote on 11/14/2019, 4:58 AM

Hi,

Firstly, thanks to the development team for continuing to push VEGAS up the hill. Along with a lot of other long-term users of this software I am grateful for the effort. For me, it is still the only NLE that makes me happy to fire up my workstation in the morning.

So my question: is there a list of Graphics Cards that users have tried with VEGAS Pro 17 which run well on Windows 10? Like many others, I have bought in the latest (typically, NVIDIA) cards on various previous workstations to find that the solution to my rendering crashes is to turn off the video acceleration. Clearly not great - and yes I have updated my graphics drivers!

I am on the edge of ordering a new workstation which will be around £2,000 ($2,500) - so there will be a lot of users who will be working on new systems at this price point. There may already be a collated document which pulls together positive reviews of cards that work flawlessly. If not, then maybe we can pull this together and post it on this forum for other users.

One more question: The latest manual for VEGAS sidesteps all of the new plug-ins, which cover a lot of the new features. Is there a PDF document that covers this, or is it all on-line? Personally I like to read and scribble notes on my technical docs but maybe I'm just getting old...

John M

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james-ollick wrote on 11/14/2019, 9:06 AM

I have a Sapphire Radeon NITRO+ RX 580 8GB GDDR5 PCI-E card and have been very happy with the performance. It has been very reliable with VP. I know that VP17 favors the NVIDIA cards at this time, but, Vegas is working on the AMD optimization and will get there, hopefully soon.

LongJohn wrote on 11/14/2019, 10:11 AM

Thanks James - appreciated. It will be interesting to see what other feedback comes in. Did you buy this card because of good reviews or hard specs?

wwjd wrote on 11/14/2019, 10:21 AM

Vegas has this "GPU" mode switches all over in it. Would be nice to see a small list of CURRENT graphics cards that can work with that. Not cards from 5 to 10 years ago. I doubt anyone will be running out and buying a 5 year old GPU these days

j-v wrote on 11/14/2019, 10:33 AM

Would be nice to see a small list of CURRENT graphics cards that can work with that. Not cards from 5 to 10 years ago.

They all work with Vegas depending of want you want to do with GPU in Vegas(17?)

Hardware accelleration is total different from hardware encoding or hardware decoding.
Must all these options also in that list. Will become very difficult.

LongJohn wrote on 11/14/2019, 10:37 AM

Indeed. I have made the mistake before of diving in and buying a new graphics card because it looked good on the box - generally promised to "Leverage the awesome power of Vegas' latest coding improvements..." etc, only to find that far from going like a rocket it wouldn't run to the end of the block without falling over. More like a three legged donkey. The graphics for that wouldn't look so awesome of the Graphics Card boxes - which all seem to be designed by/for teenage schoolboys! Hence the forum question - there's only so many time you want to make that mistake.

j-v wrote on 11/14/2019, 10:44 AM

@LongJohn
So my question to you is: What do you want of the program VPro 17 and for what goals you want to use a GPU (you think)?

james-ollick wrote on 11/14/2019, 1:32 PM

Thanks James - appreciated. It will be interesting to see what other feedback comes in. Did you buy this card because of good reviews or hard specs?

Both plus price.

LongJohn wrote on 11/14/2019, 4:11 PM

@LongJohn
So my question to you is: What do you want of the program VPro 17 and for what goals you want to use a GPU (you think)?

Ha! That reminds me of a time I went to get my hair cut and the barber said "what are you trying to say with your hair...? "! The question is a fair one though JV. I do a lot of complex, technical media so I often use Vegas rather beyond the call of duty, with multiple nested or grouped video tracks (20-40). On final edit , often losslessly pre-rendered by this stage, there might be another 6-10 audio tracks. So really I just need it not to fall over when the client is sending me those "How's it coming along...?" mails. This is especially true when someone decides to make a change just before an international tradeshow.

I use several other software solutions which are more or less stable and have different strengths, but Vegas was - and continues to be - my NLE of choice.

My demands of V17 and my GPU are otherwise typical and reasonable. No chance of dinner with Scarlett Johnsson I suppose...?

fred-w wrote on 11/14/2019, 4:30 PM

https://techgage.com/article/exploring-magix-vegas-pro-16-gpu-performance/

https://techgage.com/article/magix-vegas-pro-17-cpu-gpu-performance/

LongJohn wrote on 11/14/2019, 4:55 PM

Thanks Fred, that's a useful link.

fred-w wrote on 11/15/2019, 2:41 AM

Thanks Fred, that's a useful link.

You are always welcome!