Vega Pro 23 Rendering not using NVIDIA GPU

robert-weitkamp wrote on 3/2/2026, 3:37 AM

I have a new system that includes an AMD Ryzen 9950X, Nvidia RTX 4070 Super, 64G Ram and I can't get better than 8-9 FPS on rendering for YouTube. I manually choose NVENC and I don't see the software using the GPU at all. I used to get 30-40 FPS on a much older system. I also tried rolling back my driver to: Studio Driver 581.57 as recommended in some posts, but no improvement. I used clean install and even used the NVIDIA driver cleanup app before reinstalling. No luck. I should be getting much better performance than this.

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RogerS wrote on 3/2/2026, 5:34 AM

It should work- try the h264 template with NVIDIA NVENC and watch it in task manager. It's working here with 581.57 and a RTX 4060 mobile as well as 5070 desktop.

robert-weitkamp wrote on 3/2/2026, 9:32 PM

I just tried that and the same thing happens: Almost 80+% CPU usage, no noticeable GPU usage and about 9 FPS. I downloaded Davinci Resolve and got 500 FPS for h.264 1080P. I think I am going to have to look more seriously at that editor. I have been using Vegas Video since the early days with and before Sony. This is really disappointing.

robert-weitkamp wrote on 3/2/2026, 9:37 PM

Historically Vegas has been great. This started sometime around the end of last year. Regressing the NVIDIA Drivers did not help.

RogerS wrote on 3/2/2026, 11:27 PM

Something is strange with your system then as this isn't a general known issue with VP 23.

Can you try rendering one of the benchmarks in my signature (both known good projects)? Render to h264 with NVENC template.

If you still see no activity try a reset of VEGAS and then please test again.
https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/

I'm sure a clean install of Resolve or Premiere would work with your GPU; the same is true of VEGAS.