I built a new computer with an E5-2620 processor, 32 gig ddr4 ecc and a GTX 1070 Sea Hawk but cant seem to get support on the rendering side with GPU from the Nvidia with the Mainconcept encoder or sony (Cuda). Does the AMD R9 Fury X work with these encoders? If so did anybody try it and have any luck?
Hi
With the discreet Nvidia GPU you will only get HW Acceleration support for rendering of some effects and transitions applied, during playback of the timeline. Export rendering will do the similar thing during software export encoding but HW encoding will not be possible with Magix NLE's and your setup, as this is restricted to Intel integrated GPU's on 3rd Gen or later i series Intel CPU's that have Intel Quick Sync capability. Fixed function HW encoders ie NVENC and the AMD equivalent on the modern cards are not accessible to the Magix NLE's. Nvidia Cuda and OpenCL HW encoding is only available with legacy Nvidia up to 5xx series and AMD HD series cards from about 4-5 years ago.
You will find the Mainconcept encoder a lot faster than the VPX default Intel (not Sony) encoder in your situation.
Ss
Thank god you have answered my questions as I was pulling my hair out with this. I was looking on ebay to pick up a GTX 580 that MainConcept says they support via their page. Do you happen to have a GTX 580 in your setup that you render with and produce positive results? I will wait your response before I pull the trigger on the card.... Thank You
Ok during my testing at this moment I was able to get CUDA working with my 1070 as long as I clicked on the MPEG-4 simple tab on the export settings. It took me to the settings of the MainConcept encoder. It was a window to replicate or tweak the settings of the default H.264. When I encoded the video in this mode it cut my encoding time by half and recognized the CUDA in the rendering. This was on a 13 gig raw avi to mp4 test....
Hi
I am suspicious that HW encoding is actually occurring via Cuda. Software encoding with the MC encoder is always a lot faster than with the Intel codec - I have seen better than realtime in this mode. How much activity did you see on the GPU of the 1070?
Did you have "Calculate Effects on GPU" ticked in the Export template window? This will account for up to 20% load in GPU-Z's "Load" graph if your file has any Effects.
Did the Progress window show "Hardware .......... (CUDA)" in the top bar?
I can not get CUDA to work on my GTX1060 neither can anyone else in the English, French, or German forum, with a modern Nvidia card, for the reasons stated. On my old setup with a GTX460 Cuda would work showing up to 65% GPU load during H264 HW encoding.
BTW HW encoding only works with H264/H265 MPEG4 anyway.
Peter