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Nicol Simard
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June 30, 2012
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Premiere Pro CS6 and GTX 680

  • June 30, 2012
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I recently upgraded my video card from a GTX 580 to a GTX 680. At first, PP did not recognize the card and I had to manually add it to the config(?) file.

My problem is that PP CS6 makes very poor use of my new card. My render times are slower than before. When I check the GPU usage, it keeps jumping up and down. It never reaches above 40 odd percent.

Am I doing something wrong?

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    Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

    Sorry I posted in the wrong forum. Yes, it is about a piece of hardware but it's also making a bit of software use the hardware. At least that was my crooked logic.

    Now I hope someone can suggest something to help.


    The GTX 680 is a Kepler-class card. As you noted, this is not a card that Premiere Pro CS6 uses for GPU acceleration. You applied a hack to get it to work as far is it did, but you need to know that there is actually extra engineering/development work to be done on our side to make that card work with Premiere Pro.

    I won't comment on when or whether that work will be done, but I can point to the fact that After Effects received an update just last month to use Kepler cards:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2012/05/after-effects-cs6-11-0-1-update-bug-fixes-and-added-gpu-and-3d-renderer-support.html

    You might be able to make some guesses about Premiere Pro based on that fact.

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    schmitozen
    Participant
    September 7, 2012

    Update from the 6th of September officially adds GTX 680!!!!!

    The Warp Stabilizer is so fast in accelerated mode. Paradise!

    Steven L. Gotz
    Steven L. Gotz
    Inspiring
    September 7, 2012

    Yes, the 680 is there, but I just had to change the 680 to 670 for mine to work again. How stupid are they? The 670 obviously works and is merely a cut down version of the 680.

    This is ridiculous. Now I have to put in a trouble ticket. You would think.... Oh well, thinking is obviously not their strong point. The file is probably controlled by some clerk somewhere, not a real engineer, and certainly not by anyone who actually uses this product. I am thoroughly annoyed.

    Anyone who knows me knows that I am an Adobe Cheerleader. Well, my team is losing and I am angry.

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    nw42
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    July 1, 2012

    Hi,

    I've running a GTX 670 here and it works fine...

    1. Because of the system design of GTX 580 and GTX 680 you don't will see dramatic speed improvements from your upgrade... (GTX 580 has less shaders but working 2x the speed of the ones in the 680)

    the GTX 6xx series are great cards and have a lot of new things to offer... They need less power and don't get so hot as the 5xx series - support up to 4 displays per card and have some other clever enhancements...

    But the 6xx series don't outperform the 5xx in terms of CUDA performance - and the second question is: Do you need all the raw renderpower of the card???

    Think why NVIDIA is marketing slow old GPU processors on the Quadro line of cards as the "ideal solution" for PP?

    Because it currently is more important to have good drivers and fast video ram that to have the maximum count of CUDA cores running...

    To get your GTX 680 to the limit you have to add lots of CUDA accelerated effects on multiple HD layers and feed the video from ultrafast RAID or SSD's because your graphics card just is too fast for the rest of your system...

    --> Another thing is that you say you are slower than with your old card - that shouldn't be...

    take a look here for reference:

    http://ppbm6.com/index.html

    http://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php

    Jeff Bellune
    Jeff Bellune
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    July 1, 2012

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    Nicol SimardAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 1, 2012

    Sorry I posted in the wrong forum. Yes, it is about a piece of hardware but it's also making a bit of software use the hardware. At least that was my crooked logic.

    Now I hope someone can suggest something to help.

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