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sugarmedic

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I currently do some video work for my job but I am not a video professional. I am a little more than a hobbyist. I tape meetings and do educational videos. I currently run a dell 3600 with 32 GB of Ram non-SSD drives E-5 1600 processor and a Quadro K2000 video card. Rendering times are killing me as I do some long single shot shows with after effects components. Since I do this after work I'd really like to cut down the render times. Would I be best served by upgrading to a Quadro K5000 or adding a tesla K20. Even though there is a big price difference the better solution may save me from buying again.
Thanks again for any thoughts,
Aric
 
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hunter315
Go for the K5000, the tesla cards are meant for GPU Compute tasks like CFD and gravity modeling while the Quadro cards are workstation cards which are meant to work well with video editing and modeling programs. The Quadro K5000 will have drivers that come with optimizations for working with after effects and premier.
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Go for the K5000, the tesla cards are meant for GPU Compute tasks like CFD and gravity modeling while the Quadro cards are workstation cards which are meant to work well with video editing and modeling programs. The Quadro K5000 will have drivers that come with optimizations for working with after effects and premier.
 
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Tom Tancredi

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Your correct. The tools you are now selecting improve for specifically the type of work your doing (Video Editing and Video Rendering). The more expensive the more power and less 'time' it takes to render. That said, the GPU isn't the entire computer, the HDD, RAM and CPU are all the main 'players' before the GPU gets involved. What is the HDD your running, if it is 5400RPM drive (for example) then improving the GPU won't make a lick of difference as it waits to load / save the data from such a low end HDD. You can also check your system performance when rendering by running Task Manager, click the check box at the bottom then sort by CPU, to make sure nothing else is hogging CPU cycles needed to do this rendering.
 
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sugarmedic

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Thank you both for your input. I think I may be going with the Quadro K5000. A solid state hard drive is my next move since I do not that is the busiest area on my task manager during a render.
Thanks again,
Aric
 
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