Best graphics card for rendering?

[Beeeyeee]

hey guys I make youtube videos and render them with Adobe Media encoder. I'm planning to get a couple Xeons and a dual socket board for a rendering server. now i'm wondering what the best graphics card would be for rendering?

right now I have a 980 ti and it only peaks at 30% every once in a while. so I was thinking maybe a Quatro of some sort? I want to stay with NVidia. 

 

also any other recommendations for parts?

[thekeemo]

You are probably just maxing out the CPU new GPU wont help much

[Beeeyeee]

Just now, thekeemo said:

You are probably just maxing out the CPU new GPU wont help much

well yeah rendering is entirely CPU bound except with a few things that the graphics card is taxed with. 

[Coaxialgamer]

Depends , does your rendering software use openCL or cuda?

[Kryptyx]

Ignore me.

[Beeeyeee]

2 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Depends , does your rendering software use openCL or cuda?

Both

https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/using/whats-new-media-encoder-7-1.html

[Beeeyeee]

7 minutes ago, Kryptyx said:

Ignore me.

whatever you'd like bud;)

[Kryptyx]

Just now, Beeeyeee said:

whatever you'd like bud;)

I recommend a quadro card but that isn't really gonna help you. So I edited it.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Okay, so Adobe Media Encoder (which I use) doesn't use much of your GPU at all, at max, like you said around thirty percent. Certain export types will utilize it a bit more or a bit less, but nothing major. The best bet to increase performance is CPU cores.

[Beeeyeee]

Just now, Kryptyx said:

I recommend a quadro card but that isn't really gonna help you. So I edited it.

oh haha. why wouldn't it help?

[Coaxialgamer]

5 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

Both

https://helpx.adobe.com/media-encoder/using/whats-new-media-encoder-7-1.html

from what it seems , cuda support is better on adobe software , but maxwell isn't that great at compute . Amd cards with open cl is a great solution , but i have no idea ,how it reacts to opencl acceleration.

 

First of all , be sure not to use a quadro or a firepro , as they will not have any benefits over a geforce/radeon, while costing a lot more.

 

give me a bit more time , i'm checking how well adobeME reacts to gpu acceleration

[Beeeyeee]

1 minute ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

Okay, so Adobe Media Encoder (which I use) doesn't use much of your GPU at all, at max, like you said around thirty percent. Certain export types will utilize it a bit more or a bit less, but nothing major. The best bet to increase performance is CPU cores.

so you'd reccomend no graphics card? do xeon's have integrated graphics?

[Beeeyeee]

1 minute ago, Coaxialgamer said:

from what it seems , cuda support is better on adobe software , but maxwell isn't that great at compute . Amd cards with open cl is a great solution , but i have no idea ,how it reacts to opencl acceleration.

 

First of all , be sure not to use a quadro or a firepro , as they will not have any benefits over a geforce/radeon, while costing a lot more.

 

give me a bit more time , i'm checking how well adobeME reacts to gpu acceleration

the lower end quatro cards are fine.

[Coaxialgamer]

Ok , from what it seems , gpu support on adobe ME is pretty bad ( uses about a third of the gpu ). In the end , for rendering ( strcily speaking ), it doesn't seem to make a huge difference here.

 

However , if you serious about rendering and you use a lot of software using cuda , an nvidia card would be a better choice. Otherwise , geta radeon , it has better raw compute . Just go according to your budget , but don't buy a professionnal grade card for video encoding . It won't help , and will cost multiple times as much

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

2 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

so you'd reccomend no graphics card? do xeon's have integrated graphics?

No, you want a GPU as it helps accelerate rendering in the timeline so you'll always be editing things smoothly like playing a video game, the GPU renders the frame buffer in the timeline and then the CPU does all the hardcore conversion to various file formats at the end and the GPU simply assists it.

[Coaxialgamer]

3 minutes ago, Beeeyeee said:

the lower end quatro cards are fine.

the lower end quadros use very low end gpus ( like what you would find in a gt-class card ). Getting a consumer grade card with much more horsepower will help much more.

[Beeeyeee]

8 minutes ago, Jacktastic-Mofo said:

No, you want a GPU as it helps accelerate rendering in the timeline so you'll always be editing things smoothly like playing a video game, the GPU renders the frame buffer in the timeline and then the CPU does all the hardcore conversion to various file formats at the end and the GPU simply assists it.

i'm going to edit on my main desktop. this server is purely for rendering and uploading

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Just now, Beeeyeee said:

i'm going to edit on my main desktop. this server is purely for rendering and uploading

Then if this is just for rendering then forget the GPU and get as many CPU cores as your budget allows. Speaking of which what is your budget? and what is your main system?