Adobe Media Encoder not using hardware AT ALL

[WasteOxygen]

I work as a video-editor and finally got a decent (overkill) workstation.

Now when I render out my videos, I see my hardware is hardly being used.

Both CPU and GPU are running around 5-6% when rendering.

I know the PC is overkill but I expected a little more sweat or burning plastic while rendering my videos.

I have CUDA enabled.

 

Is there a way so that media encoder uses a bit more resources than it does right now?

 

Specs: 

Ryzen Threadripper 3970x 

RTX 2080ti

128 GB RAM

[mariushm]

Check the render profile, if needed enable gpu encoding. 

 

I don't see usage in your picture... I see 2.4% cpu usage. 

 

In some cases, it can take more time to transfer video to gpu, decode it or partially decode it using cuda, transfer data back to cpu, then do stuff with results.  It may be faster to just decode video directly on cpu, you have after all so many cores for that. 

Also, the hardware encoder on the video card may not support 10bit encoding or some particular quality presets. Pay attention to the render profile, what settings you enable and so on...  look at those numbers in Task Manager while rendering or doing some heavy work, your picture as posted now is useless, it only says very high power usage which is understandable and I'd imagine to be so, if you're actually using the cpu to do some work..