CPU & CUDA Performance (For Editing)

[GeekaWhat]

OK, I'm looking at upgrading my editing performance, a lot. I can just about afford an MSI X99 SLI mobo, 16GB DDR4 and a 5820K. my GPU is currently a 750Ti. I want DDR4 so X99 is really the only option, unless I wait for skylake. How much of a performdance will I lose by having a 750Ti in comparison to a 970 say (for editing in premiere and animation in after effects.)

 

Thanks,

James

[Random32]

OK, I'm looking at upgrading my editing performance, a lot. I can just about afford an MSI X99 SLI mobo, 16GB DDR4 and a 5820K. my GPU is currently a 750Ti. I want DDR4 so X99 is really the only option, unless I wait for skylake. How much of a performdance will I lose by having a 750Ti in comparison to a 970 say (for editing in premiere and animation in after effects.)

Thanks,

James

Get a 780 (ti). Afaik 900 series aren't compatible for adobe gpu acceleration

[runit3]

OK, I'm looking at upgrading my editing performance, a lot. I can just about afford an MSI X99 SLI mobo, 16GB DDR4 and a 5820K. my GPU is currently a 750Ti. I want DDR4 so X99 is really the only option, unless I wait for skylake. How much of a performdance will I lose by having a 750Ti in comparison to a 970 say (for editing in premiere and animation in after effects.)

 

Thanks,

James

Depends on the types of files you're editing, and how large they are. The 750ti isn't natively supported by the Mercury playback engine, however there are various sites out there that have tools for making unsupported CUDA cards work within Premiere. If you utilize a lot of effects the 750ti is going to chug through pretty badly, my GTX 580 had a serious amount of difficulty scrubbing with even 1080p 120fps files. My 970's handle anything up to 4K just fine.

 

Something to keep in mind with all Adobe acceleration is that it does not effect encoding times, the MPE only enhances the editing process. All encoding loads are still handled by the CPU.

 

 

Get a 780 (ti). Afaik 900 series aren't compatible for adobe gpu acceleration

Any GTX X70+ will function with the Mercury playback engine (aside from some mobile version outliers). Adobe is abysmal at updating their supported products page. My 970's work great with it.

[-iSynthesis]

Depends on the types of files you're editing, and how large they are. The 750ti isn't natively supported by the Mercury playback engine, however there are various sites out there that have tools for making unsupported CUDA cards work within Premiere. If you utilize a lot of effects the 750ti is going to chug through pretty badly, my GTX 580 had a serious amount of difficulty scrubbing with even 1080p 120fps files. My 970's handle anything up to 4K just fine.

 

Something to keep in mind with all Adobe acceleration is that it does not effect encoding times, the MPE only enhances the editing process. All encoding loads are still handled by the CPU.

 

 

Any GTX X70+ will function with the Mercury playback engine (aside from some mobile version outliers). Adobe is abysmal at updating their supported products page. My 970's work great with it.

Officially, the 780 is the latest GPU supported (or the Titan).

https://helpx.adobe.com/de/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

It may be a better idea to go AMD on the GPU; i don't know how well OpenCL is coded in Adobe but generally OpenCL gives superiour performance over Cuda and the latest GPU supported is the 290x (or W9100 but i doubt you could afford that)

[runit3]

Officially, the 780 is the latest GPU supported (or the Titan).

https://helpx.adobe.com/de/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html

It may be a better idea to go AMD on the GPU; i don't know how well OpenCL is coded in Adobe but generally OpenCL gives superiour performance over Cuda and the latest GPU supported is the 290x (or W9100 but i doubt you could afford that)

 

970 works OTB w/CS6, I haven't made any modifications to the software/driver support files. Again, Adobe is terrible at updating and approving their hardware list for MPE, they apparently had a ton of issues with OpenCL/GL in older versions of their suites (mostly After Effects) pre-CS6. CS6 finally got some solid support around OpenCL. Basically, Adobe isn't terribly interested in thoroughly testing GPU hardware and the blogposts/forums are going to be the best place to get up to date information in regards to more modern cards. This blog post on the Adobe forums is fairly comprehensive and goes over a lot of the feature sets supported by MPE. http://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html