CUDA Vs Stream Processors - GFX Card for Video Editing, Rendering and little bit Colouring.

zetgoo · Jan 14, 2015

Hi,

I'm looking for a budget GFX Card for Video Editing-Rendering-Colouring. Primary softwares are Adobe CC Suite, Sony Vegas and little bit Avid MC.

My budget is 350$ and the cards in my list are:

AMD FirePro W5100
nVidia Quadro K2200
ASUS GTX 970
ZOTAC GTX 970
Saphire R9 290X
...

I like to know what this CUDA and Stream Processors are? Are they alike? Will it help in my requirement?

The net is flooded with "Use CUDA", "Use GTX" and most of them sounds fanboys boasting with gaming experience, but after researching a bit I think OpenCL is the future.

AMD is stating it is partnering with Adobe so and so...

I already have an unused AMD FirePro W5100 with me, Can I use it or exchange with any of the above? Does anyone have experience on using it?

Coolboy951 · Jan 14, 2015

the more the cuda/Stream Processor cores the better in this case the 290x will be your best choice since its better than the 970 and the others

zetgoo · Jan 14, 2015

Coolboy951 :

...the more the CUDA/Stream Processor... but most websites say for rendering and all, these cores are not used and only CPU is used. So...?

renz496 · Jan 14, 2015

CUDA cores is Stream Processor. nvidia just change the name but initially they also called it as stream processor in the past. then we have CUDA and OpenCL software. OpenCL seems like the future but the problem is adoption has been very slow.

zetgoo · Jan 15, 2015

renz496 :

Is there any difference between a GTX "CUDA" and Quadro "CUDA"? Like GTX970 has double CUDA Cores than in Quadro K2200, Quadro is considered as professional level card and bit costly than GTX, so is there any performance boost to expect from this Quadro. I've read that CUDA performance also differs from model to model like GTX6--, GTX7--, GTX9-- and so on...

The same with FirePro also, FirePro W5100 has few more "cores" than Quadro K2200 but lesser than GTX9--, GTX7--, GTX6--. So will it be ideal to stick on with FirePro W5100 or exchange it?

renz496 · Jan 15, 2015

Is there any difference between a GTX "CUDA" and Quadro "CUDA"?

no. the names might be different but the chip inside are the same. i mean the chip used on GeForce cards are also the same chip used to make Quadro based cards. but quadro is tweaked towards professional application (precision). the drivers are not the same. and Quadro based card was expensive because of the certified driver and support that comes with it.

Like GTX970 has double CUDA Cores than in Quadro K2200, Quadro is considered as professional level card and bit costly than GTX, so is there any performance boost to expect from this Quadro.

as i said they were expensive because of the certified driver and support that comes with it. i don't know the performance between the two but the letter K indicate the card is based on Kepler architecture. 970 is based on Maxwell. since both are based on different architecture you can't see the core count alone to dictate it's performance.even if 970 have better performance than K2200 but if somehow your work got ruined by 970 inaccurate calculation you might lose your job.

I've read that CUDA performance also differs from model to model like GTX6--, GTX7--, GTX9-- and so on...

rather than looking at the spec and get confused on which is which is better than the other it is better to look at benchmark review. but review for professional cards seems rare. and some site only test nvidia card with OpenCL based application to make it fair against AMD Fire Pro cards but in real world situation such test might not relevant. because some software still CUDA only and for software that support both OpenCL and CUDA the result on CUDA test will be a lot better than OpenCL one because it is clear nvidia want CUDA to compete directly with OpenCL. that's why to this day nvidia OpenCL implementation are very behind AMD.

The same with FirePro also, FirePro W5100 has few more "cores" than Quadro K2200 but lesser than GTX9--, GTX7--, GTX6--. So will it be ideal to stick on with FirePro W5100 or exchange it?

comparing the amount of cores between AMD and nvidia cards is even more harder. because the way i understand it, it is not a simple core count. you have to take note how effective those cores as well. take GTX580 and GTX680 for example. 580 have 512 CUDA cores and 680 have 1536 CUDA cores. but effectively 680 only about 30% faster than 580.

since you already have Fire Pro W5100 i think you should stick with it for now. anyway did you not satisfied with it's performance?

zetgoo · Jan 15, 2015

I have not opened the FirePro Box and I'm gonna exchange it with some CUDA. Thanks everybody.

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