Hi everyone!
I'm currently working on a large-scale video project with Vegas 11 Pro and I've been thinking of ways to boost out my workstation, which is already pretty much maxed out in terms of the CPU, disk drives, memory etc. The next logical step would be to get some extra punch from the GPU side.
Sony has been advertising the new GPU acceleration features in VP11 recently, especially by underlining the performance of the new AMD/ATI FirePro graphics cards -- some of the new FirePro cards are advertised to get you 5-10x faster render/preview times compared to a computer setup that's otherwise the same but without GPU acceleration.
My current video card (ATI Radeon HD5450) doesn't support GPU acceleration in Sony Vegas Pro 11. The FirePro model I've been looking as a potential candidate to purchase is either the V7800 or the V7900 model, both of which have been advertised specifically to be used with Sony Vegas 11 Pro.
Before I make any decisions, I'd like to ask if anyone has any experience on these cards? I'd like to know that are there any significant advantages gained from these cards or using GPU acceleration altogether? In VP10, the GPU acceleration was pretty much a joke - I couldn't get it to work even in my Sony VAIO i7 laptop which has a NVidia CUDA graphics card in it (and was advertised by Sony to be their top-model for video editing).
The projects I'm working with tend to get quite heavy, considering the amount of post-processing I need to do on a regular basis (such as color correction, masking, video automation etc), so I'd be happy to boost up the performance in any possible way. Thanks in advance!
I'm currently working on a large-scale video project with Vegas 11 Pro and I've been thinking of ways to boost out my workstation, which is already pretty much maxed out in terms of the CPU, disk drives, memory etc. The next logical step would be to get some extra punch from the GPU side.
Sony has been advertising the new GPU acceleration features in VP11 recently, especially by underlining the performance of the new AMD/ATI FirePro graphics cards -- some of the new FirePro cards are advertised to get you 5-10x faster render/preview times compared to a computer setup that's otherwise the same but without GPU acceleration.
My current video card (ATI Radeon HD5450) doesn't support GPU acceleration in Sony Vegas Pro 11. The FirePro model I've been looking as a potential candidate to purchase is either the V7800 or the V7900 model, both of which have been advertised specifically to be used with Sony Vegas 11 Pro.
Before I make any decisions, I'd like to ask if anyone has any experience on these cards? I'd like to know that are there any significant advantages gained from these cards or using GPU acceleration altogether? In VP10, the GPU acceleration was pretty much a joke - I couldn't get it to work even in my Sony VAIO i7 laptop which has a NVidia CUDA graphics card in it (and was advertised by Sony to be their top-model for video editing).
The projects I'm working with tend to get quite heavy, considering the amount of post-processing I need to do on a regular basis (such as color correction, masking, video automation etc), so I'd be happy to boost up the performance in any possible way. Thanks in advance!