Puget test scores

[Arthur5FBC]

Hi all, 

Just wanted to check that my scores are ok. Recently upgraded my rig and wanted to check it was performing right 🙂 

Standard Overall Score

916

Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-CoreProcessor

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (27.21.14.6611)
Memory

64GB (2x32GB) 3200MHz

Motherboard

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING (1202)

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (19042)

System

ASUS System Product Name

Engine

CUDA

Standard Export Score

85.8

Standard Live Playback Score

99.1

Effects Score

90

GPU Score

96.5

[Richard M Knight]

This is a link to the results page of the Puget test:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/benchmarks/?benchmark=PugetBench+for+Premiere+Pro

[RjL190365]

Those results do not line up, as you posted your system specs but the numbers came from a completely different PC build with the same CPU.

The benchmark results from the system that you provided are actually this:

Standard Overall Score

1006

Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-CoreProcessor

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (27.21.14.6611)
Memory

64GB (2x32GB) 3200MHz

Motherboard

ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING (1202)

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (19042)

System

ASUS System Product Name

Engine

CUDA

Standard Export Score

96.4

Standard Live Playback Score

119.6

Effects Score

85.9

GPU Score

92.8

By @Arthur5FBC

If this is actually your system, then you did just about the best that it can do - at least with that particular CPU/GPU combo.

[Arthur5FBC]

ooops... your right, sorry I complete got the wrongs specs! I must of taken it off someone else I was looking at. That was dumb.... 

Here are my computer specs: 

Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (27.21.14.6611)
Memory
64GB (4x16GB) 2133MHz
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (2010)
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10 Home (19042)
System
PC Specialist LTD Amd Am4 Gen3EngineCUDA

Standard Overall Score

916

Standard Export Score

85.8

Standard Live Playback Score

99.1

Effects Score

90

GPU Score

96.5

[RjL190365]

Which disk(s) is/are your media files and projects on?

Also, I noticed that you're running your RAM at a relatively slow DDR4-2133 speed. That will bottleneck both the GPU performance and the live playback performance.

[Christie5C2B]

Hi are you doing

[RjL190365]

For comparison, here is my now-just-upgraded now-main mini-ITX breadbox PC, with its specs and its PugetBench scores:

Extended Overall Score

888

Standard Overall Score

923

Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-CoreProcessor

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER (27.21.14.6231)
Memory

64GB (2x32GB) 3600MHz

Motherboard

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550I AORUS PRO AX (F13i)

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (19042)

System

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550I AORUS PRO AX

Engine

CUDA

Extended Export Score

92.8

Extended Live Playback Score

98.9

Standard Export Score

92.8

Standard Live Playback Score

109.4

Effects Score

74.6

GPU Score

81.2

I have just upgraded from the Ryzen 7 3700X that was inside that breadbox PC to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Now that that CPU upgrade is out of the way, it has now gotten to the point where I now would have had to upgrade from my current RTX 2060 SUPER to a GPU that costs well over $1,000 USD just to achieve a meaningful increase in the overall Premiere Pro performance. Anything less (GPU-wise) would be at best only a sideways-grade. Not worth it.

[Arthur5FBC]

So do you thinks that my benchmark is low for that build? Or is it just the hardware that is bottlenecking it? 

[RjL190365]

Definitely the RAM speed, and maybe the disk(s) that your projects and media are on.

You see, if you bought so-called "DDR4-3200" RAM, chances are that you bought gaming RAM that is natively configured to run at only DDR4-2133 or DDR4-2666 speed. It is highly likely that your motherboard has been using the default memory speed setting, which is the maximum JEDEC setting that is supported by the RAM. You will need to enable D.O.C.P. in your motherboard's BIOS in order to attain the speed that your RAM is advertised to run at.

In addition, the low-ish score on the exports, and the somewhat low-ish score for the GPU score, are a clear indication that you're using only a SATA SSD or a very cheap, budget-line m.2 NVMe SSD for your media and export drive(s). The export tests, especially with NVENC hardware encoding enabled, clearly favors m.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs, especially relatively expensive models.

By the way, you did not specify what particular disk(s) (and please, indicate the exact make, model and capacity of your working media and project disk(s), not just the capacity) that you have in your PC.

[Arthur5FBC]

1st Storage Drive 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB
CACHE
2nd Storage Drive 256GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (500MB/R, 400MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive 500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R,
3200MB/W)

The OS is on the M.2 SSD drive, and the scratch disks are on the 2nd storage drive. I had the media files on the m.2 while running the benchmark. 

[RjL190365]

It's your memory settings in the motherboard's BIOS/EFI. There is a noticeable difference in the scores between DDR4-2133 and even DDR4-2666, let alone between DDR4-2133 and DDR4-3200.

A second, but lesser, problem is the 500 GB 970 EVO PLUS SSD: It can only do 3200 MB/s writes within the small (for this model, up to 22 GB) Turbo-cached area of the SSD. But when the transfers are larger than what the small cached portion of the NAND can handle, that's when the true write speed of its NAND comes in - in this case, its true sequential write speed is only 900 MB/s. Not much faster than a SATA SSD.

Now, had you gotten the 1 TB 970 EVO Plus instead, your export performance would have been better as its true sequential write speed (in TLC mode) is 1700 MB/s. As a result, in these more economical and budget m.2 NVMe SSDs, the smaller capacity models will always be significantly slower, true sequential write speed wise, than their larger-capacity model mates.

[Richard M Knight]

I have found my Puget scores are a lot better with Premiere 15.2 over 15.1

Extended overall went from 606 to 687, Standard live playack went from 77 to 109.9