Video Card Performance Test 2017
With all the great advancements in technology I figured it’s time to look at video card upgrades for our our edit suite.
We run two workstations and want to see how the latest video cards from Nvidia perform. Here’s an excerpt from what looks like a great review published by Puget Systems.
Test Setup
To see how the new Quadro cards perform in Premiere Pro, we will be testing with the following hardware:
| Testing Hardware | |||||
| Motherboard: | Asus X99 Deluxe II | ||||
| CPU: | Intel Core i7 6950X 3.0GHz (3.4-4GHz) 10 Core |
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| RAM: | 4x DDR4-2400 32GB ECC Reg. (128GB Total) |
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| GPU: | NVIDIA Quadro P4000 8GB MSRP ~$920 |
NVIDIA Quadro P5000 16GB MSRP ~$2,500 |
NVIDIA Quadro P6000 24GB MSRP ~$5,500 |
NVIDIA Quadro GP100 16GB MSRP ~$7,000 |
NVIDIA Titan Xp 12GB MSRP ~$1,200 |
| Hard Drive: | Samsung 960 Pro 1TB M.2 PCI-E x4 NVMe SSD | ||||
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit | ||||
| Software: | Premiere Pro 2017.0.2 | ||||
Most of the media we will be using is available from the Sample R3D Files and were transcoded to the various codecs we wanted to test.
4K
EPIC DRAGON
3840×2160
23.976 FPS
6K
WEAPON 6K
6144×3077
23.976 FPS
8K
WEAPON 8K S35
8192 x 3456
50 FPS
To test exporting and rendering previews we used a moderately complex timeline involving multiple clips, Lumetri Color correction, multicam footage, and some other effects like a logo overlay, Gaussian blur, and cross dissolves. If you want a more in-depth look at what our timelines are like, we recorded a short video explaining our test process: