Does any product use Nvidia GPU for Rendering Hardware Acceleration

Aaron-Amick wrote on 5/16/2019, 12:16 PM

I have an Intel PC with No Intel Integrated graphics. But I do have an Nvidia Titan RTX video card.

Does any product in the MAGIX inventory support Nvidia GPU Hardware Acceleration during the Video Render? (Not Video Effects during rendering)

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Scenestealer wrote on 5/16/2019, 4:39 PM

At present only Magix Video Pro X 10 (current) can make use of Nvidia's Nvenc capability but for HEVC export renders only.

Magix recommend 10xx series cards or later but members report that 9xx series work also.

Magix Vegas Pro can also use Nvidia for HW export rendering but check over on their site and forum for details.

Former user wrote on 5/17/2019, 12:42 AM

Vegas is just OpenGL/OpenCL.

I'd probably bias to AMD in that NLE. It can Encode with VCE, as well.

Michal-MST wrote on 5/17/2019, 12:58 AM

I have GTX 980. There is hardware support for HEVC export.

When coding to h.264 as shown, integrated graphics are used in i5 4690K. Unfortunately, Magix "promotes" the Intel. I am currently working on Pro X but in the future I intend to switch to AMD processors. If I do it, I immediately change the program to Davinci Resolve, which works without any problems on AMD processors and external graphics cards. The basic version of the program is free. The paid version is cheaper than Pro X and, in addition, you have lifetime support and not for the year that Magix gives you.

Former user wrote on 5/17/2019, 4:27 AM

I have GTX 980. There is hardware support for HEVC export.

When coding to h.264 as shown, integrated graphics are used in i5 4690K. Unfortunately, Magix "promotes" the Intel. I am currently working on Pro X but in the future I intend to switch to AMD processors. If I do it, I immediately change the program to Davinci Resolve, which works without any problems on AMD processors and external graphics cards. The basic version of the program is free. The paid version is cheaper than Pro X and, in addition, you have lifetime support and not for the year that Magix gives you.

90% of the industry prioritizes Intel because the vast majority of CPUs with encoder hardware are Intel machines. Ryzen CPUs don't have iGPUs which means no UVD/VCE. You need an APU or AMD GPU for that.

AMD pre-Ryzen CPUs and APUs were also terrible, and generally only found in budget machines and cheap gaming builds. So, people aren't keeping old AMD builds the way you are so many 3rd-4th gen Intel builds still in use...

Look at most NLEs.They bias to Intel. Premiere Pro only decodes with Intel, for example. Avid doesn't even support AMD CPUs. Apple machines only ship with Intel CPUs (but AMD dGPUs, however the software generally uses Intel QSV).

Scenestealer wrote on 5/17/2019, 7:12 AM

@Former user

"Vegas is just OpenGL/OpenCL."

Vegas Pro specification says it uses Nvidia NVENC.

Former user wrote on 5/23/2019, 12:10 PM

@Former user

"Vegas is just OpenGL/OpenCL."

Vegas Pro specification says it uses Nvidia NVENC.

I mean... when you read a statement like:

I'd probably bias to AMD in that NLE. It can Encode with VCE, as well.

it infers an acknowledgement that VEGAS Pro supports NVENC Encoding.

OpenGL/OpenCL are for GPU Acceleration, and what I'm saying is that AMD's better OpenCL performance is probably worth investigating them as a strong option - especially with the price disparity between the cards - if you're going to use that NLE.

VPX only supports QSV and NVENC, and depends on NVENC for HEVC Encode Acceleration... so AMD is off the table if that's what you need to do - unless you have a monster CPU.