Top of the line Specs - not great Rendertest score

kraz wrote on 12/28/2015, 6:34 AM
i7 4790K
Asus z97A
16GB DDR3
EVO SSD
Windows 10
Vegas Pro 13

just put together this system. and was getting about 2:20 on Render Test

Checked the CSV file and someone with same Specs (except windows 10 vs Windows 7 and his video card was better but he has GPU off )
was getting 22 second

We spoke on email - and everything really seemed the same. He also said he did not do any special tweaks.

After a bit of tweaking - preview memory and some other I saw on the list I got it down to 1:40 still 5 times faster.

When I check my utilization
CPU does not go over 70% with no GPU 26% with GPU
Tons of free memory
Almost no disk access (both to my EVO SSD and SATA drive)
I set my performance mode in Windows power section to highest

I did not yet make changes to my windows swap file ...

Any ideas what is holding me back?
Vegas Settings?
Windows 10 Settings?

Even a link to a - YOU MUST do this .. etc ...

BTW - preview window memory changes and even GPU changes do not make a huge difference

Thanks for any help.

Allen

Comments

BruceUSA wrote on 12/28/2015, 7:02 PM
You want great Rendertest score. You gonna need better CPU than that and a nice AMD video card. You did not mention what video card you are using. And I would not call the 4790K is a top of the line specs because it isn't.

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kraz wrote on 12/29/2015, 2:31 AM
Ok - it may not be top of the line - but it is a pretty solid CPU - and more than that, the person who also had the same CPU got 22 seconds and I got 1:40 ... (no GPU used)

my video card (not great I know but fine for me ) is EVGA GeForce GT 730 2GB DDR3

Warper wrote on 12/29/2015, 9:10 AM
This 22 seconds looks like a fake if we are talking about the same thing. Also, CPU only applies to 2 different settings: Vegas internal GPU acceleration and renderer GPU acceleration. You cannot ever get 22 seconds without GPU in at least one of them, not on modern processors. Also, your

Please take a look at render test filled by this forum users:
http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/vegaspro/vegaspro.html
Byron K wrote on 12/30/2015, 2:02 AM
Interesting... Ask the guy who got the 22 second render time to screen capture his settings and render.
astar wrote on 12/30/2015, 3:07 AM
The NV730 is around 700 GFLOPs, with 40GBs bandwidth. The AMD 390x is around 6000 GFLOPs, with 512GBs bandwidth. You still think GPU size does not matter in timeline render speed?

GPU compute units, fast CPU core count, and large system RAM memory bandwidth is the magic triangle in Vegas. Buy parts by performance and not price.