Quote: How do I know if it would be worthwhile to upgrade to a better video card to get faster hardware encoding ?
I have an nVidia 9800GT with 512MB .
CPU is Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 2.4 GHz. 16GB RAM on Win7 bit.
I have SSD for boot drive and RAID for video storage.
Which new video card could I expect any benefit from for encoding and roughly how much ?

Short answer, a lot.

There are many video cards better than the nVidia 9800 GT. The 9800 GT does not have very many gpu processors.

You can find your video card here:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

you can get a good idea of that card performance and look at newer video cards performance.

This list is a good list of the current video cards, start in about the middle of this list.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl,

I know there are better video cards. But my question remains, how much will a new video card improve the speed ?
What factors should I look at ?
Are there any benchmarks out there with PD and various video cards ?
MSI X99A Raider
Intel i7-5820k @ 4.4 GHz
32GB DDR4 RAM
Gigabyte nVidia GTX 960 4GB
480 GB Patriot Ignite SSD (boot)
2 x 480 GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD (striped)
6 x 1 TB Samsung 860 SSD (striped)

2 x LG 32UD59-B 32" 4K
Asus PB238 23" HD (portrait)

You can pretty much scale the Benchmark data for different cards. Keep in mind, obviously it only affects the performance when you produce to a format that the card supports and use the GPU hardware encoding with PD. I published a few PD specific times for a few cards at the bottom of this post http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16589.page if you want an idea on speed with PD.

Jeff

JL_JL,

Thanks, those benchmarks are very helpful !
Is there any hardware acceleration with the ATI video cards, or is it just nVidia ?
And if so, is here any comparison available ?
MSI X99A Raider
Intel i7-5820k @ 4.4 GHz
32GB DDR4 RAM
Gigabyte nVidia GTX 960 4GB
480 GB Patriot Ignite SSD (boot)
2 x 480 GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD (striped)
6 x 1 TB Samsung 860 SSD (striped)

2 x LG 32UD59-B 32" 4K
Asus PB238 23" HD (portrait)

Would the new GTX 680 be compatible with PD9 ?
MSI X99A Raider
Intel i7-5820k @ 4.4 GHz
32GB DDR4 RAM
Gigabyte nVidia GTX 960 4GB
480 GB Patriot Ignite SSD (boot)
2 x 480 GB Sandisk Ultra II SSD (striped)
6 x 1 TB Samsung 860 SSD (striped)

2 x LG 32UD59-B 32" 4K
Asus PB238 23" HD (portrait)