Vegas Pro 18 - GPU Performance Upgrades???

cliff_622 wrote on 8/4/2020, 9:01 PM

Hi folks,

I run a Ryzen 9, 12 core, 80 gigs or RAM and will have a new RTX 2070 (8gigs VRAM) being delivered on Friday. (upgrading from old AMD Vega 56)

Vegas 18 looks like it has some nice things. However, the "big three" that I care most about are:

  • "Automatic GPU driver detection"
  • "Auto GPU configuration for hardware acceleration"
  • "Improved Video Engine performance"

These sound great but are still a bit ambiguous......

Can anybody go into to greater detail? Maybe a few sentences on "how" this is the case or more on specific hardware or codec acceleration?

Has anybody noticed any timeline playback/preview performance increase from VP-18 from VP-17?

Is VP-18 a new rebuilt playback engine or is it just a tweak of VP-17?

Any more information would be great. How does VP-18 playback compare to Resolve or Premiere?

I'm less concerned about full render speeds but more concerned about timeline smoothness.

Thanks!

Comments

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 8/4/2020, 9:13 PM

The GPU performance has been greatly improved. And now there is a useful feature to automatically download the best drivers for optimum GPU performance.

RogerS wrote on 8/4/2020, 9:14 PM

Performance really depends on your system and the files you use. I think it's an evolution that is reaching new highs for performance and stability.

When your new parts arrive, give the trial a try!

Former user wrote on 8/4/2020, 10:32 PM

The GPU performance has been greatly improved.

How has your VP18 gpu performance increased over VP17. What's changed, where do you see it, timeline, render speed, other areas, try and specific, not ambiguous?

I know you use voukoder, was the pause in render that used to happen with build in encoder, but did not happen with voukoder get fixed, is that why render is faster for some people, or is the pause still there, but something else improved. Do you see an improvement in timeline performance?

 

 

 

wwaag wrote on 8/5/2020, 1:07 AM

I can give one very concrete example of greatly improved timeline performance with my anemic Nvidia 1050ti card. With FHD 60P footage and no Fx, I usually get pretty much 59 fps in best/full preview in both V17 and V18. However, if I reverse the footage it falls to 12-15 fps in V17. In V18, however, it stays at a full 59 fps. Obviously, something was changed that accounts for such a dramatic improvement. Whether it was better GPU performance or something else, I have no idea. Regardless, it's an improvement.

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Former user wrote on 8/5/2020, 1:28 AM

With Davinci Resolve when you play AVC/HEVC backwards it must prematurely read chunks of the video forward to decode while at the same time playing back the decoded video in reverse. It is very obvious to see when looking at GPU decode. It is my guess VP18 does this, while VP17 didn't bother using GPU Decode, or maybe forward decode/render reverse combo was more computationally complex then it needed to be and they've fixed it now. It's good to hear

fr0sty wrote on 8/5/2020, 1:42 AM

Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)