Increase GPU Utilization in Premiere

[GamersCouch]

How can I increase the utilization of my GPU when rendering or encoding videos?!? Also, the reason I'm using proxies is because I can't scrub 4k footage smoothly, even at 1/4 resolution preview...

 

I looked everywhere I can think of online, and they only suggest things with CUDA which I have already enabled...

 

CPU: 4770K (is this the reason it's slow?)

RAM: 16GB DDR3

GPU: 1080ti

 

Any help would be awesome!

 

[Guest]

I doubt this will do much but you could try setting the process to "realtime" or higher than normal.

Otherwise it looks like you're currently being bottlenecked by both your CPU and RAM. Primarily Adobe will still try using the CPU even when setting the renderer to GPU because it's a much more efficient way of processing things through a CPU. Even if you could theoretically make the GPU do all the video rendering and encoding you would be waiting much longer for it to process than a CPU can do.

So yeah, looks like a CPU upgrade and adding more/faster RAM are really the only things you can do to make this work better.

[GamersCouch]

1 hour ago, ChintzyPC said:

I doubt this will do much but you could try setting the process to "realtime" or higher than normal.

Otherwise it looks like you're currently being bottlenecked by both your CPU and RAM. Primarily Adobe will still try using the CPU even when setting the renderer to GPU because it's a much more efficient way of processing things through a CPU. Even if you could theoretically make the GPU do all the video rendering and encoding you would be waiting much longer for it to process than a CPU can do.

So yeah, looks like a CPU upgrade and adding more/faster RAM are really the only things you can do to make this work better.

I was afraid of this... I guess I gotta upgrade! You would think that at the very least the CUDA cores would be used more...

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, GamersCouch said:

I was afraid of this... I guess I gotta upgrade! You would think that at the very least the CUDA cores would be used more...

If you really want a card that's worthwhile in media editing you need a workstation graphics card like a Quaddro or Vega. They have different memory modules that work better for these applications. But really you won't get much benefit from something like that without a CPU and RAM upgrade.