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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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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.

Liveshots
LiveshotsAuthor
Inspiring
December 10, 2019

I highly suspect that GPU switching has improved in the later versions, you're welcome! 


Got a demo of Neat 5, got the same grief and reported a bug to Neat support to see what wisdom they could offer;

> Used within Premiere Pro CC 2018 (on a nested sequence), despite leaving
> the plugin as using CPU only, it prevents PP from using GPU acceleration when
> rendering either timeline previews or final render through Media Encoder queue.
> With Neat disabled, PP rendered my test 60sec in 3 minutes and I watched
> both the GPU and CPU hit >90%.
> With Neat given 8 CPU cores to play with (deemed as optimised) I tried to
> render the same clip but it prevented Premiere from using the GPU; it hardly
> reached 5% and the CPU sat around 10% in task manager.
> 5 minutes later I could see in the preview that the clip timeline hadn't
> passed more than a few seconds and predicted render time kept getting longer.
>
> Disabled Neat and hit render = Full Power to Adobe again. It just seems to
> stop Premiere from using the GPU/CPU properly

I believe (based on our developers' experience with Adobe documentation, support, etc.) 

that it is a feature/limitation of Premiere itself. Premiere does not use its GPU processing

when certain types of plug-ins / video effects (including Neat Video) are used. 

We are not sure why Premiere does that but it is a decision of Premiere and its developers

and so can only be changed by them.

 

To efficiently use Neat Video with Premiere I recommend to enable use of GPU by Neat Video

in Neat Video Preferences. This should speed up processing because at least Neat Video's part 

of processing will be done faster.