Wrong forum, oh well.

How are you selecting HA enabled encoding, screen pic showing settings would verify? The full dxdiag would help, not just the intro screen.

The GTX555 is a Fermi chip based GPU so one would have to use the older Nvidia drivers for CUDA enabled HA encoding, pre 340.43 drivers.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff for your prompt reply (only 3 files to attach so now you have other DxDiag screens)

I am aware of drivers issue and I use 337.88 version for that reason.

I also tick "Hardware video encoder" on the Produce tab screen. _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Quote: Thanks Jeff for your prompt reply (only 3 files to attach so now you have other DxDiag screens)

I am aware of drivers issue and I use 337.88 version for that reason.

I also tick "Hardware video encoder" on the Produce tab screen.

HA screen.jpg does not enable HA encoding, it's decoding. On the "Produce" page "Fast video rendering technology:" and then the "Hardware video encoder".

For the dxdiag, output to a txt file and then upload that. The fourth button from the left, the Zapisz... button.

Jeff

There you go. _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Your GPU load pic looks a little odd to me, my experience would indicate you typically have a rather uniform load if doing just basic encoding. If you have significant chunks of timeline that needs additional CPU processing, like titles and such, you get the sporadic load. Since your CPU’s are at 100% tells me that's limiting the capability of the GPU for your particular timeline.

I've attached a GTX580 with 337.88 drivers and I get a fairly solid 25% GPU load.

Jeff

That's the problem for me I cannot resolve.

It doesn't matter either I produce simple movie consisting of simple chunks or complicated one with movie within movie and a lot of tree leaves waveing. GPU usage picture is roughly the same - occasional load 40% for simple movie, 99% for complicated one but average 1-3%

I thought something was wrong with GPU but I ran FurMark and it runs fairly smooth with decent temperatures and 99% constant load.

I have no idea what is causinh the problem? _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)

Quote: That's the problem for me I cannot resolve.

It doesn't matter either I produce simple movie consisting of simple chunks or complicated one with movie within movie and a lot of tree leaves waveing. GPU usage picture is roughly the same - occasional load 40% for simple movie, 99% for complicated one but average 1-3%

I thought something was wrong with GPU but I ran FurMark and it runs fairly smooth with decent temperatures and 99% constant load.

I have no idea what is causinh the problem?

So you see reasonable GPU load for just a simple encoding of a basic default clip like Nature.wmv? Do you still see nearly 100% CPU usage with that?

If so, my guess the poor overall performance for a real timeline may simply be the dual 5130's are not up to preprocessing the timeline content for the encoding handoff to the GPU. With a Passmark http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+5130+%40+2.00GHz&id=1183&multi=2 score of 2615 they will struggle in this aspect, but if it meets your needs, that's what counts.

My GTX580 test was in a PC with a Passmark CPU score of ~9000 so not real comparable to what you have. Even with that, the CPU load for a simple Nature.wmv GPU encoded to H.264 1920x1080 (24Mbps) is near 80%. I see your 5130's really struggling in the preprocessing stage and controlling the overall encode performance.

Jeff

I ran PassMark test on my computer and it shows CPU score 2814

So you think, the real bottleneck is CPU which is not able to produce enough tasks to feed GPU?

What score should be enough to handle it? _______________________________
regards, Tom
(PD365, Win10 Pro x64, Dell Precision T3500, Xeon W3670, 12GB, SSD)