Dual GPU Video Cards?

digitalelf wrote on 12/17/2011, 1:14 PM

Hello, Is anyone successfully using a Dual GPU Video Card with Vegas Pro? If so, which one and model?

Thanks.

M. McGaughey
Dual i7 quad cores, 12gb Ram, Win7 Ultimate, Sony Vegas Pro, Sound Forge

Comments

Steve Mann wrote on 12/17/2011, 1:43 PM

I have a pair of nVidia GT520's running four monitors.

While you can mix different video cards in Windows PC's, it's not a good idea because you have multiple drivers and there's no guarantee that they will play well together.

paul_w wrote on 12/17/2011, 2:01 PM

Yes running a 570 and a 210 feeding 3 monitors. It uses the same driver for both cards in this case so no problems mixing.
Point: Vegas GPU acceleration will only access one card at a time. So you can select which GPU to use but not both at the same time.

Paul.

MPM wrote on 12/17/2011, 2:47 PM

>"Hello, Is anyone successfully using a Dual GPU Video Card with Vegas Pro? If so, which one and model?"
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If you're open to running ATI, I suggest contacting one of the ATI guys [Jay Marsden? Twitter?], explain what you're after, & see what they say. You might also check sites/sources for things like folding &/or maybe the financial sector where they rely a lot on GPU calculations?

That is assuming Vegas' code gets a bit better, & you don't use a just released ATI model -- right now ATI support still seems flaky & AFAIK ATI *Always* has driver problems with dual GPU cards when they're just released.

Good Luck :-)