About to buy a new windows 10 gamer, what graphics card g force # do I need for PD14

PETER b

Newbie Joined: Jul 29, 2011 18:07 Messages: 39 Offline

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May 18, 2016 17:49

I am a windows 7 PD 12 guy and now I face the unavoidable windows 10 upgrade. I bought a new ASUS laptop gamer W10 machine last year and downloaded PD14 trial and my renders were 25% slower. I returned the machine and stuck with my 3 year old ASUS laptop G75V W7 PD12 machine.

Now I face the inevetable W10 auto upgrade so I will buy another windows 10 machine and relearn PD 14 (it has very different rendering options on file types- I was used to Mpeg 4 1920x1080/30p (16Mbps) in PD12. I didn't see this in PD 14.

It's been a while but I remember many different and new file formats in PD 14. What's the fastest for 1080p youtube uploading. I don't work in 4K.

What's the best G force version number and driver numbers for PD 14? I render upto 20 5 minute videos a day so speed is everthing to me.

Thanks for you your help,

Peter B.

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SoNic67

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 27, 2014 14:14 Messages: 1308 Offline

May 18, 2016 19:04

The best PD14 video card today, for rendering in H264 or H265 is GTX960. Not 970, not 980... those have an older generation video block (decoder/encoder) than the one in 960.

Tomorrow might be the GTX1070, but you will not need that upgrade (especially just for 1080p). Actually the GTX960 does a very good job in 4K encoding too.

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Its_Crashed_Again

Newbie Joined: Feb 21, 2016 00:55 Messages: 2 Offline

May 24, 2016 20:50

I have the Geforce GTX960 with 2 GB memory onboard
quad core processor
16 gb memory
Rendering takes about 1/3 of the clip play time at 1080 HD, MPEG 4, 12 mbps
19 min video = 1.60 GiB in size
and that is not using SVRT, just quick rendering.

kmjk333

Member Joined: Feb 16, 2016 02:23 Messages: 93 Offline

May 25, 2016 18:15

"I was used to Mpeg 4 1920x1080/30p (16Mbps) in PD12"

You have the exact same settings in PD14. When you go to "produce" create a custom "Profile name/Quality" and change the settings to what ever you like including your exact same PD12 settings

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

May 25, 2016 20:16

Quote: "I was used to Mpeg 4 1920x1080/30p (16Mbps) in PD12"

You have the exact same settings in PD14. When you go to "produce" create a custom "Profile name/Quality" and change the settings to what ever you like including your exact same PD12 settings

Or just use the basic default setting of MPEG-4 1920x1080/30p (16Mbps) in PD14, same as PD12.

Jeff


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