PC Upgrade made rendering slow - CUDA or Software Only (Intel i3) ?

Report · Jan 28, 2019

I use Premier Pro CC 2018, Windows 10 with December 2018 update

Desktop Configuration I had

Intel i3 6100 (3.7ghz)

Asus H110 Motheboard (Integraded Intel HD 520 Graphics)

8GB DDR 4 RAM (RAM reserved for other app 2 GB)

2TB Seagate SATA Harddisk

I use Software Only Mode for Video Rendering and generally it takes 13 minutes for a 13 minute video (Preset : YouTube 1080p HD)

I upgraded my Desktop with

Additional 8GB RAM (now its 16GB) (RAM reserved for other app 4 GB i.e. 12GB for Premier Pro)

250GB SSD (For OS & Apps) & (using old 2TB for Scratch Disk)

GIGABYTE GeForce GT 1030 DDR5 Graphics Card

Now (Preset : YouTube 1080p HD)
Using CUDA it takes - 21 minutes for a 13 minute video

Software Only - 19 minutes for a 13 minute video

Can someone help, what mistake/s I have done ?

Report · Jan 29, 2019

Hello,

What version of the Intel GPU driver are you using? I would recommend updating to the latest version as there have been some issues with older versions of this driver. Maybe a good place to start and we can go from there.

Report · Jan 30, 2019

I guess, I have found solution to my Problem

Answer in Two Words : NVIDIA Sucks

I removed my graphics card and Now getting good performance

10 minute videos take approx 5 min to render... VOILA

My ASROCK H110m Motherboard's (costed approx 45$) Inbuilt Intel HD 530 Graphics is more powerful than Nvidia

I am quite happy throwing my 100$ Graphics Card into dustbin....!

Report · Jan 30, 2019

Here are the reasons why:

1) When you have the CUDA renderer enabled, MRQ (Maximum Render Quality) is ALWAYS enabled while in software-only mode MRQ is turned off by default.

2) That GT 1030, even in its GDDR5 version, is simply not a big enough upgrade over integrated on-CPU graphics to justify spending the money on.

To prove this second point, I ran the now-difficult-to-obtain PPBM MPEG-2 DVD export test with OpenCL GPU acceleration with the i5-6500 implementation of the HD 530 graphics, and got a 200-ish second result in that test. The GT 1030 GDDR5 in CUDA mode might come in at about 100 seconds, which is nothing to write home about.