SLI for After Effects Rendering?

[craydawg]

Friend and I were talking about SLI.

 

Would there be any performance gains in GPU rendering by going with an SLI configuration? I only typically see 15-20% card utilization on single card gpu rendering so I dont know that SLI for this kind of rendering would give any benefit. I could be wrong.

 

Both run single cards atm one on 980ti and other on 970 

[Oshino Shinobu]

SLI specifically, no. Running dual GPUs in general should give a benefit, but it will likely depend on the particular workload. 

[ShadowCaptain]

Probably not unless you have some insane rendering to do

[mikat]

Friend and I were talking about SLI.

 

Would there be any performance gains in GPU rendering by going with an SLI configuration? I only typically see 15-20% card utilization on single card gpu rendering so I dont know that SLI for this kind of rendering would give any benefit. I could be wrong.

 

Both run single cards atm one on 980ti and other on 970 

i dont think it benefits from more gpus

[ALwin]

CUDA and GPU acceleration only comes into play with After Effects IF the effects that AE need to render support GPU acceleration.

http://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html

 

This is why you don't see a lot of GPU usage compared to the CPU when rendering Premiere Pro, After Effects projects.  Add a ton of GPU accelerated effects onto your Premiere Pro or After Effects sequences, and you'll see the GPU utilization go up.

[craydawg]

Perfect. Thanks all!