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Anonymous
October 9, 2014
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Nvidia Geforce GTX780 vs Quadro K2200

  • October 9, 2014
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Hi guys,

i'll buy a new graphic card for my workstation hp Z200 on win7 pro 64bit.

I have some trouble reading 4K footage. Actually, I got a geforce GTX470 with 1280MB RAM...

I don't know if it's better to buy a Quadro K2200 with 4GB RAM but 640 Cuda Cores or if the GTX780 with 3GB RAM but 2304 Cuda Cores...

I know Geforce is more for gamers and Quadro for professionnal use but what about specifications ? What will the best for Adobe CC 2014 ( Premiere Pro, AE and Media Encoder...)

Thanks for your feedback guys.

Best regards

Nico - from France

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    October 22, 2014

    Nico,

    Guess what? Your Z200 has a relatively ancient (by today's standards) first-generation LGA 1156 Lynnfield- or Clarkdale-based i-series CPU, which is seriously limited in expansion/upgrade capablilties. Without knowing what your system's exact CPU is, I cannot recommend a GPU upgrade, especially since the performance improvement that such an upgrade entails may be limited by the performance of your system's CPU.

    In addition, your system supports only PCI-e 2.0, not the newer PCI-e 3.0 that current high-end GPUs utilize. Thus, your performance improvement is seriously limited not only by your system's CPU, but also by the older, slower PCI-e bus version. No wonder why you got practically zero improvement over your existing GTX 470.

    As such, I'd recommend saving up for an entirely new system at this point.

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    Anonymous
    October 22, 2014

    As I said, my CPU is an Intel Xeon QuadCore X3450@2,67GHhz

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    October 22, 2014

    Yes, but that CPU is now four generations old at this point. It is actually slower than an i7-860 that it was based on. (That X3450 runs at only 2.66GHz versus the i7-860's 2.8GHz.)

    Also, it's a good thing that you didn't go for the Quadro K2200: It is essentially a GTX 750 Ti with the memory throughput of the plain GTX 750 (80 GB/s instead of the 86.4 GB/s throughput of the 750 Ti).

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    Anonymous
    October 22, 2014

    Hi Eric,

    I just bought the new GTX970 yesterday and the problem still here...

    I cannot editing 1080 and 4K footage at 100Mbps from the Panasonic GH4 !

    Anyone can help me ?

    ECBowen
    ECBowen
    Inspiring
    October 22, 2014

    What are the specs for the rest of the system. What do you mean you cant edit? What are you running into? What Nvidia driver did you install?


    Eric

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    Anonymous
    October 22, 2014

    I run on Win7 Pro 64 bits with Intel Xeon X3450, 16Gb RAM, windows on SSD, media on a raid 1 volume (mirroring)

    By I cannot editing, I mean that playback is freezing or jerking...

    I think my raid volume is not enough faster reading and writing data...

    This is the last driver installed, version 344.16

    I bought the new 970 for nothing...

    ECBowen
    ECBowen
    Inspiring
    October 10, 2014

    I suggest getting the Geforce 970GTX or 980GTX. Don't get that Quadro. it will not help your performance.

    Eric

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    Anonymous
    October 10, 2014

    Thanks for your feedback Eric. Why GeForce is better ?

    GTX980 is not in the specs for Adobe Premiere Pro on Adobe website. Is there supported for GPU acceleration ?

    A Friends told me getting AMD FirePro or AMD R9 290x... I'm a bit lost with all this graphic card...

    I wanna do the right choice...

    Please help me more... Thanks for all

    Nico

    ECBowen
    ECBowen
    Inspiring
    October 10, 2014

    Geforce cards have far better hardware specs ie cuda cores, memory bandwidth, and clock speed which are the primary factors for GPU acceleration performance. Do not get AMD cards. Cuda performs far better than Open CL right now with Adobe. That means Nvidia. cards are the way to go regardless of the AMD card specs. Also the 900 series cards have HDMi 2.0 which fully supports 4K at 60 frame. None of the other cards do right now including the Quadro or AMD cards via HDMi.Yes all of the Geforce cards including the 900 series work fine with the Adobe MPE acceleration. You just want to add the card to the supported list in AME CC 2014. It will work in Premiere CC 2014 regardless now.


    Eric

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