I had some spare time today so I turned on the GPU in my i7700 and decided to test it against my RX480. I set the Intel GPU to the highest memory in setup for it (1 Gig) and then started Vegas 15. I do some cat videos for the 2K folks who are following the Feral Kittens we adopted from Canada. This is Panasonic 4k 2160 100mb base with titles, music, some grading on the six segments I used, some crop on a few of the segments, a high res still - generally the kind of stuff I do. video

Vegas shows the two GPUs (you have to close and restart when you change GPU's). AMD Ellesmere and Intel HD Graphics 630.

4K = 80 mbits 1920 = 28 mbits

File sizes for 4K: Hevc Size 438.78 Render 10.58 minutes Magix ACC Size 466.16 Render 6:21 minutes

1080P Hevc Size 124 Render 3:53 minutes Magix ACC Size 133.32 Render 1:34

 

While Vegas Pro shows Intel HD Graphics 630 as an option and I did restarted after I selected it I am not sure that it is working correctly. While true that the RX480 has eight times the processing area as what I could allocate to the HD Graphics 630, should not the performance been closer?

I wonder how you would verify that the HD Graphics 630 is working when shown as the select GPU in preferences and you select Intel HEVC as the render codec?

did you render with intel qsv or nvenc or normal

What about the INTEL HEVC codec. Did you try that one, did that appear to work with intel gpu?

There is no gpu option to choose with that one.

Bob - tried that yesterday - It was slow with all the various ways but the RX480 was the best. Going from 4K > 1080P Intel Hevc on the 8 Gig RX 480 took 3:30 vs 1:34 using the Magix ACC/AVC . This was at the 28 mbytes rate. Another data point here is that using the RX480 and Magix HQ ProRes (150 Mbytes) to 1080P took 1:20 seconds.

MY Machine is an i7700 4200 with 32 gig ram and using a 7200 HD for stock and a fast 512 SSD for rendering.

Overall I like my setup and really like VP15.....if only Magix would hook up Samplitude for round tripping sound I'd be in heaven.

@Former user From that other thread, my guess is that you have to plug your monitor into the motherboard, not your discrete graphics card, to get QSV to work for 8-bit HEVC rendering. Have you tried that?

ken-dehoff said here that once he made his Intel GPU the only active display adapter he was able to HW encode with the Intel HEVC codec. So it might even be that if you have multiple monitors, none of them can be plugged into your discrete graphics card. Also note that on the evidence of that thread, getting 8-bit to work with QSV in that way, will probably make 10-bit fail totally.

No need to, here is a screenshot of a very quick render with that codec of the taskmanager where you see which GPU is working. All info on the screenshot.
 

When I go into Task Manger I don't see the GPU setting (I run techpower GPU-Z to show GPU performance), what version of W10 are you running? Is there a setting to turn it on?

Win 10 pro or home (I have home)? I am on the latest update also.

I am now upgrading to 1709.....had auto upgrade on don't know why this didn't down load. Thank you.

1709 is latest creators update,for me qsv works good than any

Now have the GPU - shows both the Intel and the AMD and when rendering which ever one i have selected. Nice little add on Task Manager.

@Former user From that other thread, my guess is that you have to plug your monitor into the motherboard, not your discrete graphics card, to get QSV to work for 8-bit HEVC rendering. Have you tried that?

I use the dual GPU option in bios so some things such as intel QSV will work with various apps, and also for some reason thumbnails within filemanager are also run by intel GPU, As said previously QSV works with MAGIX AVC but not INTEL HEVC. I will try plugging motherboard video into a monitor to check your theory.

@Former user From that other thread, my guess is that you have to plug your monitor into the motherboard, not your discrete graphics card, to get QSV to work for 8-bit HEVC rendering. Have you tried that?

I will try plugging motherboard video into a monitor to check your theory.

I have confirmed this doesn't fix the lack of intel gpu when using INTEL HEVC. If it matters I have dual monitor set to extended display & confirm 1 monitor uses nvidia card & the other motherboard.