Need a new gfx card and I do a lot of video work, I have noticed of recent that more of the software I use has CUDA options. Therefore I'm thinking of NVidia and was looking for opinions on whether I would be better of with a GTX560 or GTX570 or as I'm not gaming whether there is an alternative.
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Video Editing
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I think AMD/ATi do have a cuda alternative (Stream/openCL or something?) but I don't think its as widely supported as Nvidia's cuda.
I used to have a pair of 9800GTX+ cards that used cuda in Microsoft expressions, it didn't make a whole world of difference.
I used to have a pair of 9800GTX+ cards that used cuda in Microsoft expressions, it didn't make a whole world of difference.
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as far as i know, for CUDA to work by default in Adobe Video based Applications you need a GTX 470 that performs about the same as a GTX 560.
This was a while back according to the Adobe Support site, unsure if they have done the same with the 500 series.
This was a while back according to the Adobe Support site, unsure if they have done the same with the 500 series.
Sounds interesting, guess it comes down to cost then. I'll have to look and see how much difference there is between the 560 vs 570, right had a look and I can get two 560 for the cost of one 570. Anyone run this and seen any gain to video other than gaming?
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Video editing applications do not take advantage of more than one Video Card.
^ as said Adobe premiere pro doesnt have any gains with SLI. But most recent Nvidia cards with 896MB of ram are supported - atleast with tricking Premiere Pro.
Have a read & scroll down - http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5-2.htm
A 560 would work fine. And ill probably be getting one soon to speed up my editing a bit
Have a read & scroll down - http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5-2.htm
A 560 would work fine. And ill probably be getting one soon to speed up my editing a bit
Thing is both stream/avivo and cuda (also intel quick sync) produce inferior image quality vs a standard x86 transcode. Similarly the only reason cuda have been because nvidia have pushed (read bullied/thrown a fortune at) software developers.
OpenGL is available on all video cards, including mobile gpu and your mobile phone. It's basically built into everything hence makes far more sense from a development viewpoint.
Any editing software worth the price tag supports opengl/opencl, adobe added full support in CS4 (would have been stupid not to, modiles all use opengl) but Nvidia pushed cuda to increase gpu sales, or rather steal amd sales, by obscuring it.
My point is you're not locked into nvidia - they just want to to think they're your only option. You can quick happily put a quieter, more efficient vaporx amd card in a rig and edit just as effectivly.
OpenGL is available on all video cards, including mobile gpu and your mobile phone. It's basically built into everything hence makes far more sense from a development viewpoint.
Any editing software worth the price tag supports opengl/opencl, adobe added full support in CS4 (would have been stupid not to, modiles all use opengl) but Nvidia pushed cuda to increase gpu sales, or rather steal amd sales, by obscuring it.
My point is you're not locked into nvidia - they just want to to think they're your only option. You can quick happily put a quieter, more efficient vaporx amd card in a rig and edit just as effectivly.
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