James Manford
February 26th, 2014, 10:02 AM
Right ...
My Specs are:
i7 3770k
16GB 1600mhz Ram
256gb SSD
2TB Hd
Gigabyte Z77 Mobo
I've been recently making complex timelines in Vegas and my GTX 470 (MSI Twin Frozr Edition) has been struggling to render my multi-layered timelines of about an hour. And usually crashes halfway. So I have been rendering with the "GPU - Off" ... which then renders successfully but takes about 2 hour 30 mins to 3 hours in total.
Even that felt a little long to me ...
So I went and purchased a R9 270X Sapphire OC Edition (1050mhz / 1100mhz boost).
Awful, awful, awful graphics card !!!
With the ATi GPU selected rather than switched off in Vegas, it's even worse than my ancient GTX 470 !?!? Whats going on ? It takes 6 hours 30 mins to render.
And now even if I select "GPU - Off", when I render this 1 hour video it takes 6 hours 30 mins to render !!! Almost as if Sony Vegas doesn't switch it off. How do I know this? well I been monitoring the temps using Core Temp. With the GPU - Off but with the GTX 470 installed, I would see all the cores maxed out and hard at work, which meant the CPU was doing all the leg work ... hence 2-3 hours render time. But now with this Ati card installed and the GPU - Off ... the cores don't max out. Almost as if Sony Vegas is still using the graphics card to render the video.
Regardless of which card I use the ram is always maxed out at 94% so I have purchased an additional 16GB of Ram.
What is going on though ??? I thought the new R9 cards are supposed to be good !?
My Specs are:
i7 3770k
16GB 1600mhz Ram
256gb SSD
2TB Hd
Gigabyte Z77 Mobo
I've been recently making complex timelines in Vegas and my GTX 470 (MSI Twin Frozr Edition) has been struggling to render my multi-layered timelines of about an hour. And usually crashes halfway. So I have been rendering with the "GPU - Off" ... which then renders successfully but takes about 2 hour 30 mins to 3 hours in total.
Even that felt a little long to me ...
So I went and purchased a R9 270X Sapphire OC Edition (1050mhz / 1100mhz boost).
Awful, awful, awful graphics card !!!
With the ATi GPU selected rather than switched off in Vegas, it's even worse than my ancient GTX 470 !?!? Whats going on ? It takes 6 hours 30 mins to render.
And now even if I select "GPU - Off", when I render this 1 hour video it takes 6 hours 30 mins to render !!! Almost as if Sony Vegas doesn't switch it off. How do I know this? well I been monitoring the temps using Core Temp. With the GPU - Off but with the GTX 470 installed, I would see all the cores maxed out and hard at work, which meant the CPU was doing all the leg work ... hence 2-3 hours render time. But now with this Ati card installed and the GPU - Off ... the cores don't max out. Almost as if Sony Vegas is still using the graphics card to render the video.
Regardless of which card I use the ram is always maxed out at 94% so I have purchased an additional 16GB of Ram.
What is going on though ??? I thought the new R9 cards are supposed to be good !?