Utilization of discrete GPU lower than anticipated

wlammert

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Mar 27, 2023 21:17

I recently purchased a NUC11 Enthusiast (11th gen i7 and RTX 2060 GPU) with Windows 11 to use for video editing with the Cyberlink PowerDirector 20 video editing software. I had previously been using a laptop with Windows 10 and 6th gen i7 processor with integrated GPU.

I am disappointed in the improvement from the laptop to the NUC 11 and wondered if I have something set up wrong. I have designated the RTX 2060 as the primary graphics card for PowerDirector and optimized the GPU in the PowerDirector settings.

The NUC 11 renders about twice as fast as the 6th gen laptop but still stutters (although not as much) on some of the heavy previewing tasks. I had expected much more from the NUC 11 for these tasks with the discrete GPU.

I have noticed that on previewing that the CPU runs about 60 to 80% and the GPU about 20 to 30%. On rendering the CPU runs at 100% and the GPU about 50%.

Is there any way for PowerDirector to move more of the processing to the GPU during previewing and rendering?

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Mar 30, 2023 15:05

Quote I recently purchased a NUC11 Enthusiast (11th gen i7 and RTX 2060 GPU) with Windows 11 to use for video editing with the Cyberlink PowerDirector 20 video editing software. I had previously been using a laptop with Windows 10 and 6th gen i7 processor with integrated GPU.

I am disappointed in the improvement from the laptop to the NUC 11 and wondered if I have something set up wrong. I have designated the RTX 2060 as the primary graphics card for PowerDirector and optimized the GPU in the PowerDirector settings.

The NUC 11 renders about twice as fast as the 6th gen laptop but still stutters (although not as much) on some of the heavy previewing tasks. I had expected much more from the NUC 11 for these tasks with the discrete GPU.

I have noticed that on previewing that the CPU runs about 60 to 80% and the GPU about 20 to 30%. On rendering the CPU runs at 100% and the GPU about 50%.

Is there any way for PowerDirector to move more of the processing to the GPU during previewing and rendering?

Hi,

No discrete user defined path to alter the loading of CPU and GPU.
Lots of debate on the forum as to what exactly PDR does in differing timeline environments and hardware configurations. The main difficulty is getting reliable and consistent test results between users with similar systems etc. etc. Some members have put a lot of time and effort into testing and sharing results over the years!

Perhaps these differing topics might help and shed some light on your observations?

https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/84247.page#post_box_348236
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/118612.page#post_box_446413
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/118604.page#446385
https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/97049.page#post_box_390400

Cheers,
PowerDirector Moderator

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