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john_dennis wrote on 3/1/2020, 12:17 PM

@jkerry

Your signature indicates that you "Started editing with Vegas 4 and haven't changed now with Vegas 13 Pro."

If you have no plans to move past Vegas Pro 13, you might get one of these or one of these for less money. You will get decent timeline acceleration (and VCE encodes in Vegas 15 and up).

If you plan to move to Vegas Pro 17-421 or higher to take advantage of hardware decode and encode, the field gets a lot bigger and more expensive. I'm sure the green team will be along any minute, now.

jkerry wrote on 3/1/2020, 1:45 PM

@jkerry

Your signature indicates that you "Started editing with Vegas 4 and haven't changed now with Vegas 13 Pro."

If you have no plans to move past Vegas Pro 13, you might get one of these or one of these for less money. You will get decent timeline acceleration (and VCE encodes in Vegas 15 and up).

If you plan to move to Vegas Pro 17-421 or higher to take advantage of hardware decode and encode, the field gets a lot bigger and more expensive. I'm sure the green team will be along any minute, now.

Didn't think about updated that we are using Vegas 13 and 16 right now.

j-v wrote on 3/1/2020, 2:21 PM

If @jkerry is going to state that he will want to stay at Nvidia, I can give him a cheaper advice that not only good can be used in V16 but also in VP17 till now.

met vriendelijke groet
Marten

Camera : Pan X900, GoPro Hero7 Hero Black, DJI Osmo Pocket, Samsung Galaxy A8
Desktop :MB Gigabyte Z390M, W11 home version 24H2, i7 9700 4.7Ghz,16 DDR4 GB RAM, Gef. GTX 1660 Ti with driver
566.14 Studiodriver and Intel HD graphics 630 with driver 31.0.101.2130
Laptop  :Asus ROG Str G712L, W11 home version 25H2, CPU i7-10875H, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Studiodriver 591.86 and Intel UHD Graphics 630 with driver 26.20.100.7985
Vegas software: VP 10 to 23 and VMS(pl) 10,12 to 17.
TV      :LG 4K 55EG960V

My slogan is: BE OR BECOME A STEM CELL DONOR!!! (because it saved my life in 2016)

 

jkerry wrote on 3/1/2020, 2:32 PM

The card maker does not matter. The Nividia I have now is going out and just need to replace it with one that will work good with Vegas

jkerry wrote on 3/1/2020, 2:33 PM

What do you think of this one. EVGA GEFORCE GTX1660

walter-i. wrote on 3/1/2020, 2:53 PM

What do you think of this one. EVGA GEFORCE GTX1660

The Geforce GTX 1660 Super is more modern, a little more expensive, but 15-20% better.

j-v wrote on 3/1/2020, 3:03 PM

What do you think of this one. EVGA GEFORCE GTX1660

I use on my desktop the Gef. GTX 1660 Ti and that one works very good with VPro 16, but for that good working you have to install these Nvidia drivers

 

met vriendelijke groet
Marten

Camera : Pan X900, GoPro Hero7 Hero Black, DJI Osmo Pocket, Samsung Galaxy A8
Desktop :MB Gigabyte Z390M, W11 home version 24H2, i7 9700 4.7Ghz,16 DDR4 GB RAM, Gef. GTX 1660 Ti with driver
566.14 Studiodriver and Intel HD graphics 630 with driver 31.0.101.2130
Laptop  :Asus ROG Str G712L, W11 home version 25H2, CPU i7-10875H, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Studiodriver 591.86 and Intel UHD Graphics 630 with driver 26.20.100.7985
Vegas software: VP 10 to 23 and VMS(pl) 10,12 to 17.
TV      :LG 4K 55EG960V

My slogan is: BE OR BECOME A STEM CELL DONOR!!! (because it saved my life in 2016)

 

jkerry wrote on 3/1/2020, 5:38 PM

I want to thank everyone for their advise. I decided to go with the GTX 1660 as the Ti did not have to ports I wanted. Again thanks to everyone.

walter-i. wrote on 3/2/2020, 3:00 AM

Did you compare the GTX 1660 with the GTX 1660 Super?

TheRhino wrote on 3/2/2020, 7:34 PM

For those still looking at this thread to make a similar decision, my son has a 1660TI in his 6-core I7-9750H laptop, I have a RTX 2060 in a I7-9750H $999 Evoo 17 laptop & I also have a VEGA 64 liquid-cooled in an 8-core 9900K desktop. The RTX 2060 laptop renders faster than expected, 1:41 vs. 1:34 minutes on the 4K rendertest posted on these forums. (I removed V17 from the 1660ti laptop, so I don't have those numbers..) HOWEVER, the VEGA 64 displays the same (complex) project in the preview window at max quality at 13.25 FPS vs. the RTX 2060's 8-9 FPS vs. the 1660TI's 6-7 FPS (if I remember correctly)... The VEGA 56 has 3584 cores & VEGA 64, 4096 vs. the RTX 2060 with 2176 cores & 1660TI with 1536 cores... The latest AMD drivers paired with the latest Intel iGPU drivers have provided my best performance yet... So bottom line… You can sometimes find a VEGA 56 for $250 which would provide much faster display FPS than a $200 - $225 1660...

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Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...