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Inspiring
December 6, 2019
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How effective is using 2 graphics cards?

  • December 6, 2019
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I've had a fairly old NV Quadro4000, and need more power as Premiere is performing very poor with Neat Video. I've not got much funds, so ordered a used NVidia QuardroK4000 with a little more power, but hoping that the doubling of the devices is going to be of some effect.

Any advice for how to make double cards work effectively? I'm imagining dedicating one of them to Premiere and the other to Neat Video...?

 

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Anonymous
December 8, 2019

No, it won't work well at all. 

Sell them and get single GTX 1060

    Liveshots
    LiveshotsAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 8, 2019

    I found one on eBay for $73 from China (long wait for UK delivery). Would it not be effective to leave Windows in the hands of my old Quadro and designate Premiere only to the GTX 1060?
    Sorry to keep questioning you, but I have no experience with this kind of hardware and I'm going by guesswork & theory here.

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    LiveshotsAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 9, 2019

    Theoretically it would be great to have one for compute and one for graphics, in reality, that works terribly. 

    This benchmark website is super helpful, but my main priority is CUDA version supported, and VRAM space: https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-Quadro-K4000-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1060-6GB/m7730vs3639


    Most info I'm getting from Google and a friend who is a PC pro, tells me that GeForce cards are just for smooth gaming playback and Quadro are editing/rendering cards. I've ended up ordering both a GTX-1060 and a QuadroK4000, I'll just see what works best.

    My specific issue is that when I render in Premiere or via AME queue with the Neat Video plugin, the performance is disgracefull. Neat Video 3.5 is GPU accellerated and it's activated in the settings, but the GPU graph zig-zags every couple of seconds between 0-50% while Premiere mumbles around with 20% CPU usage.
    A 3 minute video still had over 6hours on the AME waiting clock by the time I'd got out of the shower! As soon as removed Neat Video and exported again, it rendered in 6 MIN not 6 HOURS with the GPU at almost constant full throttle. Seems to me that Prem/AME won't share the gas with 3rd party plugins.

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