Vegas Movie Studio 14 Render times 1080 gtx vs r9 290

Fivepin wrote on 3/15/2017, 8:54 AM

Hey guys, I just upgraded last week. I also bought a new 1080 GTX card and was hoping for some GPU render acceleration. I decided to test the new video card against my current AMD r9 290, I also throw in some Pinnacle 20 tests. I do give comparative time results throughout the video. Spoiler alert in the end....I am dissapointed.

Next week I will be finishing a new Ryzen build...I will make a new movie to test render times vs my current i7 2600 OC...

Thanks for watching...MAGIX IF YOU ARE READING THIS...WE NEED SONY AVC GPU ACCELERATION...

Comments

Cornico wrote on 3/15/2017, 10:00 AM

I am never dissapointed about velocity of rendering because for me quality is the only thing that is important to me. Editing is something I must do it myself and rendering is something that the hardware is doing for me in times I have other important things to do, 🍺 or 😴.

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NickHope wrote on 3/15/2017, 11:37 PM

@Fivepin, "Dynamic RAM preview (max)" is not just a chunk of RAM allocated to video processing. It is the maximum amount of RAM allocated to building dynamic RAM previews, a specific feature of the program that is accessed from the Tools menu or by pressing Shift+B. Your video is misleading in this respect. The setting has been known to have a wider effect but it seems to be system-specific.

Also, you don't make a distinction between GPU acceleration of video processing and legacy GPU rendering. They are different things (see this post) and should be considered individually. Your mentions of "GPU rendering" and the GTX560/570/580 cards muddy the waters between them.

Fivepin wrote on 3/16/2017, 6:51 AM

Sorry To be misleading Nick. I don't pretend to be an expert. I am simply pointing out that my wonderful new video card did not work as I had hoped and that each generation I go back to previously performed better. My intent with the video was to see if there had been any new support added and we did find an answer to that. I believe there are a lot of users out there like me (not experts) who just want a simple answer. Is the damn card supported or not. LOL

NickHope wrote on 3/16/2017, 10:38 AM

The GTX 1080 is supported for GPU acceleration of video processing, but that uses OpenCL and Nvidia has weaker support than AMD for OpenCL, so that's why your R9 290 is faster. GPU acceleration of video processing has an effect on render times, because the timeline has to be processed, and the effect is greater the more GPU-accelerated FX are on your timeline.

The GTX560/570/580 were faster for a completely different reason; because they supported CUDA rendering, which later cards do not.