Video Card / GPU recommendation

wonka001 wrote on 6/29/2012, 10:08 PM
Does anyone have a recommendation for a video-card/GPU that will work with VMS HD 11?

System it will go in is Windows 7. Would like to keep the price around $200.00.

Will be rendering to DVD format if that helps or makes a difference. I've tried searching the web and Sony's site but can't seem to find any definitive answers.

TIA

Bill W

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 6/30/2012, 5:28 PM
Your video card will not make a big difference in VMS's performance, Bill, so I wouldn't waste my money on some expensive gaming piece. You should be fine with any typical ATI or nVidia-based card.

Performance and rendering speed are much more a product of your processor speed.
Markk655 wrote on 6/30/2012, 6:28 PM
Steve,

VMS11 does render faster (for certain codecs such as Sony mp4) using CUDA (NVidia) and (I think the AMD/ATI equivalent now). You don't have t spend a fortune, but do be sure to get a reasonable card if you are rendering out to mp4/mts/AVCHD. It will help for rendering. For mpeg/DVD format, it won't make much (any?) difference.
wonka001 wrote on 6/30/2012, 10:36 PM
Interesting. FWIW, the system I'm going to be building will look like:

AMD 8120
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
32gb RAM
Not sure of disk-probably several TB.

If what you say is true about the processor being the "main force" for rendering for the codecs I'll be going to, then this should do the trick. Just wish Sony would get on the ball and get VMS to support 64-bit so I can use all that memory.

(BTW, the box will be dual-booting: WIn7 and ESXi which is why I want so much memory).

Bill W
Markk655 wrote on 7/1/2012, 1:41 PM
FYI - See half way down in the VMS 11 release notes. It details the GPU support.
wonka001 wrote on 7/2/2012, 12:38 PM
How could I have missed that ?!? Thanks, that will help quite a bit.

Bill W