Vegas 17 pro, and graphics card, which one is recommended?

Mariusz-Frey wrote on 11/26/2020, 2:01 PM

Hi. I have Sony Vegas Pro 17 and I have question about graphics required. Now I Have old Gforce with 1GB. Intel Xeon I7 3,2 Ghz (8 cores), 12 GB Ram. I Bought extra 8 GB ram (is comming), and Ibought GeForce GTX 1060 6GB MSI GAMING ( is coming) - OpenGL 4.5, DirectX 12. To render UHD HDR Movies is recomendet Radeon Pro series with 8 GB (VCE 3.0 or higer.) My question is: If I bought GeForce GTX 1060 6GB MSI GAMING , do I can do render movie UHD with full HDR effects, like on Radeon Pro series with 8 GB. I known it will be slower ( I dont care) but I have profesional camera and I need to be sure, on the end, effects wil be without any losses. Regards.

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j-v wrote on 11/26/2020, 2:47 PM

I recommend nothing, but my laptop from signature has a Nvidia GTX 1050 and with the latest Studio drivers it renders good and pretty fast.n Vegas Pro 17 and in VPro 18 even faster.
Look to my screenvideo rendering an UHD file to Magix AVC UHD with Nvenc, but the video will show you all. Video is taken with Vegas screencapture and that uses my Intell processor with its GPU

wjauch wrote on 11/26/2020, 6:01 PM

FWIW In my recently dead Laptop 6700 i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, 960M GPU I rendered a couple of short films, starting with Red 5k RAW files, output to 4k. As far as I recall I only used the GPU for playback on timeline, for rendering I did not select the GPU option. It wasn't fast but it worked

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 11/28/2020, 11:30 AM

Wouldn't be so sure that the Radeon Pro series will significantly out perform an Nvidia 1060. Unless you get up to their higher end Vega. I have a similar Nvidia 1660 in one of my Xeon machines and it's a decent middle of the road gpu with both encoding and decoding support in the latest v17 build.