GPU Performance in Premiere Pro CC 2018

[Danielt1989]

Hey,

Do i need the Cuda Software for speed up my Video Rendering or i just need the normal Nvidia Driver?

I use Mercury Plaback Engine and GPU (CUDA).

[R Neil Haugen]

If you have your GPU video drivers loaded, and in your PrPro preferences, you can select "Mercury Acceleration: CUDA", then you're fine.

Neil

[Danielt1989]

Thx

[Jim_Simon · Accepted solution]

On Windows, the Display Driver includes CUDA.  Do not install CUDA on Windows, as it can mess things up.

On a Mac, you do have to install CUDA separately.

[Danielt1989]

Thx

[Jun Wei Goh]

then is it normal for the gpu to reached 37% the most while rendering? cause after i installed cuda plus enable that cpu still hit high but gpu not working much

[RjL190365]

Not all rendering features use GPU acceleration even with MPE GPU acceleration enabled. Many of the rendering features use only the CPU.

However, if your project is laden with GPU-accelerated effects, and your system's GPU is still underutilized, then you might have a CPU that's underpowered relative to the GPU (say, the system might have an i5 or even an i3 CPU but mated to an overkill GPU such as a GTX 1080 Ti). Remember, no higher-end GPU can compensate for a weakling CPU!

Randall

[Jun Wei Goh]

ok i see where you going and also indeed i am running on gtx 1080ti with a 4790k cpu at 4.4GHz. Now i know where my problem are my video didn't have any sort off effect that you list added.Also i dont think is a bottleneck issues cause my games i can fully reached at 100%

[R Neil Haugen]

Randall's answer was spot on. There's a list of GPU accelerated effects ...

List of GPU accelerated effects: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/effects.html

But as Randall notes, even if you're using a GPU-accelerated effect, if your CPU isn't a match for your GPU, it limits the GPU.

"Balanced" machines are needed, really ... which is why doing a bit of looking through threads over on the Hardware forum, and/or going to Bill Gehrke's PPBM8 page for data on current hardware and how it's working in PrPro are worth doing.

Neil

Tweaker's Page ... now Bill's Video Hardware Blog

http://ppbm8.com/index.html

Hardware Forum ... https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum

[Jun Wei Goh]

lastly does adobe premiere elements 12 support gpu rendering?

[RjL190365]

No. All rendering in Premiere Elements 12 is through the CPU only. In fact, even the latest version of Premiere Elements renders almost entirely through the CPU.

And for that matter, games do not fully utilize a modern CPU. Unlike Premiere which hammers the CPU.