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So I was looking into testing the performance (mostly rendering) in GPU acceleration and whether Cuda is actually extremely viable when choosing a video card for productivity. Here is what I want to test the performance of:
1. Only my CPU
2. CPU with gpu acceleration.
I am using the 980 ti and am wondering what sort of applications I should use to test it. Just want to point out that these results would then be used to inform.
So far here's my list:
- SVP
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe After Effects
- Cinema 4D
- Adobe Media Encoder
Thanks guys, hope you can help me out! :)
 
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jimmysmitty
You have plenty of power and if they do use CUDA then there is an advantage as they will be optimized and will run faster. GPUs are very good at serial tasks and these applications typically perform serial based tasks.
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CUDA acceleration only applies to CUDA accelerated effects, everything else will still be rendered by the CPU, like it normally would. If your projects are large, adding more RAM will decrease render times. If your project is small but you're experiencing slow workflow, optimising your drive setup meaning seperated scratch drive, media and OS drive will help improve workflow.


List of GPU accelerated effects in Premiere Pro
Here is a list of the effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Alpha Adjust

Basic 3D

Black & White

Brightness & Contrast

Color Balance (RGB)

Color Pass (Windows only)

Color Replace

Crop

Drop Shadow

Edge Feather

Eight-Point Garbage Matte

Extract

Fast Color Corrector

Four-Point Garbage Matte

Gamma Correction

Garbage Matte (4, 8, 16)

Gaussian Blur

Horizontal Flip

Levels

Luma Corrector

Luma Curve

Noise

Proc Amp

RGB Curves

RGB Color Corrector

Sharpen

Sixteen-Point Garbage Matte

Three-way Color Corrector

Timecode

Tint

Track Matte Key

Ultra Keyer

Video Limiter

Vertical Flip

Cross Dissolve

Dip to Black

Dip to White

List of GPU accelerated effects in Premiere Pro
Here is a list of the additional effects and transitions that can be accelerated by CUDA in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Directional Blur
Fast Blur
Invert
Additive Dissolve
Film Dissolve
Warp Stabilizer


https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/effects.html
 
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Hmmm, yeah I kinda chose those ones because they did offer it, and I just wanted to test the implications of it. I've got an i7 5820k (@4.4 GHz) and 16GB of 2666 Mhz Ram.

 
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Thanks, that should help a lot!

 
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Thanks, I'm just a little confused as to the results I got.
*Controlled environment - no processes in background, same footage, effects...*
*Using GPU accelerated effects - Gaussian blur, sharpen & noise*

Sony Vegas Pro 13
With Cuda = 27:46 minutes
CPU Only = 27:34 minutes

After Effects CC 2014
With Cuda = 29:08 minutes
CPU Only = 29:09 minutes

Premiere Pro CC 2014
With Cuda = 6:09 minutes
CPU Only = 37.36 minutes

I'm so confused
 
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It looks like Premiere Pro utilizes CUDA more than the others. Some apps utilize it for basic tasks while others utilize it fully.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/973767#973907

This is for SVP and looks like you might need to recheck your settings or make sure your using a up to date version as older versions had issues with newer NVidia GPUs.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/rendering-opengl.html

It looks like After Effects only utilized GPU acceleration in three areas so it would be the slowest of the three applications you used.
 
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After Effects is using CUDA way more than Premiere Pro, have you checked your options and made sure your GPU is on the supported list and that you enabled GPU acceleration? Seems very odd to me. Sony's software I have no experience with, but I'd imagine they have this feature too, because why would people be using it if it didn't. :)
 
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Yeah I heard about that sony vegas pro issue, but I didn't know they updated it. As for After Effects, I've heard people always talking about how much cuda helps with that, yet mine is a bit awkward. Perhaps because it's the CC2014 version and you can't change the render engine (mercury), but rather just go into preferences and change it so that you have access to cuda (it does display it and tells you that it's active). Thanks anyway

 
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Yeah After Effects was a weird one. In Premiere, I can set the render/playback engine to be gpu accelerared, yet in After Effects (CC 2014) I have to go into preferences -> display and check that it's enabled. Btw, is it normal for it to cut the render times that much (from 40 minutes to 7ish in Premiere)? Thanks.
 
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If it fully utilizes the GPU acceleration the yes it can drastically cut render times depending on your GPU. It is much like QuickSync which is a dedicated encoding tool on all modern Intel CPUs. If it can use QuickSync it will cut the time drastically from CPU encoding.
 
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