Slightly Off-Topic - GPU Acceleration

safrican wrote on 5/3/2012, 7:55 AM
I have recently made the switch to Adobe. I only upgraded my software, kept the same hardware, now a little over 2 years old. My build included a Radeon Graphics card.

I read all about the Cuda acceleration and last week I made the leap and bought a GTX560. With the new range, the 600's released lat month the 500's have dropped significantly in price.

I have Vegas Pro 10 and therefore never saw any hardware acceleration in Vegas.

Well, boys and girls, I am in awe with the Nvidia card and PPro. Of course there are horses for courses, meaning somethings lend themselves more to acceleration.

I have an introduction sequence, 5 video layers, color correction, opacity settings. I see 20X reduction with that. 20X, not 20%.

Normal video, with maybe a color correction and transitions I see anywhere from 15% - 40% improvement. All depends. It seems the more complex the more the improvement factor. Also rendering to a different format seems to like the GPU a lot.

All the scrubbing and previews are real-time, even with effects and multiple layers.

I have seen some numbers on here for VP11 and I like the idea of Sony going that direction but they seem to be a little off for now.

Maybe VP12 will have this stuff figured out, I am guessing Adobe didn't get it right the first time either.

I was a long time VP user and who knows, if the stability and GPU support sort themselves out I might be again, but for now I am sold on Adobe, even if some tasks take double the amount of clicks :-(. Really miss the VP Pan and Crop.

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AtomicGreymon wrote on 5/3/2012, 8:11 AM
I'm building a new system in the next few weeks myself, and I'm planning on switching from Radeon (longtime ATI user) to nVidia's Geforce line for the CUDA acceleration, which I've heard nothing but good things about.

I was hoping to see the GTX 660 line, but so far only the ultra high-end 680 series gaming cards have come out. I still may try waiting it out (can't be too much longer) as the 660 or 670 won't end up being much more than the equivalent 500-series cards, but contain more CUDA cores and be capable of even greater acceleration.