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Upgrade GPU, GPU + PD17, or just leave well enough alone?
V1v10 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 17, 2015 20:46 Messages: 25 Offline
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I'm just starting to do more "work" with 4k clips. I'll be producing mostly 1080 and 4k movies, between 5-80 minutes, HEVC. When I produced a simple 10 minute movie from 4 clips with just fades and crossfades, 30 fps, high quality, 1080 required 25 minutes on my machine, 4k required 2 hours.

I'm wondering if I should consider upgrading GPU to get quicker rendering, assuming of course that I can make sure the drivers + PD work properly together to actually do any hardware acceleration. I don't seem to get any hardware acceleration making HEVCs with my current setup (PD 14, hardware acceleration checkboxes are grayed out for HEVC).

My system was reasonably quick 3-4 years ago. I use an m2 ssd system drive and have another ssd available for working.

System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: Z170XP-SLI
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 32768MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 32718MB RAM
Page File: 8057MB used, 25683MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 12

Display Devices
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Card name: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 380 Series
Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x6939)
DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)

Is there a chance I could see a meaningful speed improvement in rendering HEVCs at 1080 and 4k by putting a couple hundred into, say, a GTX 1060 (but I see I'd need older drivers to keep hardware acceleration working with PD14)? Or should I just leave well enough alone?
PepsiMan
Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline
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welcome back.
i'm assuming the OS is wX.
no, don't bother. save money for the total upgrade.
current i5 cpu's benchmark and shoot for the double the benchmark score or better and or i7, too.

here's past article written by Jeff Hardware Acceleration .

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

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V1v10 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 17, 2015 20:46 Messages: 25 Offline
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Thanks. Kinda figured that's the answer. Hardware accel is a bit hit or miss, even if I pony up for a new card AND the latest PD. I don't do enough rendering for it to make much of a difference. I can just have it run the long stuff at bedtime.
PepsiMan
Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline
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yup.
that's what i do.
my AMD is tad faster than yours. i've upgraded the gpu from gtx 960 2GB to gtx 1060 6GB and all i got was 'that's it???'
only about 5-10% decrease in rendering time for $250.

PD17 is little bit faster than PD14...

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out' 'no bridge too far'

Yashica Electro 8 LD-6 Super 8mm
Asrock TaiChi X470, AMD R7 2700X, W7P 64, MSI GTX1060 6GB, Corsair 16GB/RAM
Dell XPS L702X i7-2860QM, W7P / W10P 64, Intel HD3000/nVidia GT 550M 1GB, Micron 16GB/RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1
PepsiMan
Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline
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here's optodata's experience... PDM, What happended to thread "PDR17 GM3 2224 Beta Patch Now Available" , simlar to mine.

'... I paid $500 more for the nVidia card, which
I now see as a really steep price to pay for just a 14% improvement. ...'

bluf.
first buy the fastest cpu you can afford then the gpu...

happy happy joy joy

PepsiMan
'garbage in garbage out'

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'no bridge too far'

Yashica Electro 8 LD-6 Super 8mm
Asrock TaiChi X470, AMD R7 2700X, W7P 64, MSI GTX1060 6GB, Corsair 16GB/RAM
Dell XPS L702X i7-2860QM, W7P / W10P 64, Intel HD3000/nVidia GT 550M 1GB, Micron 16GB/RAM
Samsung Galaxy Note3/NX1
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