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TPB3333
TPB3333
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July 13, 2019
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GPU too weak for Premiere Pro?

  • July 13, 2019
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Hey,

I want to do a little bit of editing on my desktop. I'm a music producer/composer so I made sure it has really good specs for Music Production, but I didn't really invest in a good GPU. Now when I edit a 1920 x 1080 video clip, it's starts lagging a lot after having one lumetri color correction effect and one channel blur effect on it. To me this would seem to be pretty light editing? I also tried 1024 X 540 proxy files but it doesn't really improve the performance.

I have a 2gb NVIDIA Geforce 1030. I know it's not the RAM that's causing it because I have 32gb of RAM. I don't need crazy heavy after effects editing. Just some color correction and small video effects.  Is my GPU too weak for that?

Regards,

Toon

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    RjL190365
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    July 13, 2019

    Be careful. There are/were two different versions of the 2 GB GT 1030 that were made: One with GDDR5 VRAM, the other with DDR4 VRAM. NVIDIA came out with the lesser-performing DDR4 variant some time after the original GDDR5 version, but failed to change the model number on the GPU. That created a lot of confusion.

    There is a big difference in the memory throughput between the two versions of the same GPU. The GDDR5 version has a memory throughput of 48 GB/s, which is just sufficient for a modern mainstream PC with dual-channel system RAM. But the DDR4 version has a memory throughput of only 17 GB/s! That's well below the throughput of the main RAM of most recent PCs.

    TPB3333
    TPB3333Author
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    July 14, 2019

    Thanks for your reply!

    I think it's the Palit Nvidia Geforce 1030. And as far as I can find it is a GDDR5 version, so that would make the situation a little better. What I would like to know if it's normal with such a GPU to have such problems doing small video editing, which would mean that I would consider upgrading. Or if there something wrong and maybe fixable.

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