AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards!
by Teddy Gage on May 26, 2012 at 7:12:58 pm
Hey guys trying to get some data on fastest graphics cards for AE - I came up with a benchmarking project that stresses the GPU to 100% and already got surprising results:
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by John Cuevas on May 27, 2012 at 2:17:56 am
As I'm deciding on my new system(and video card) I'd be very interested in seeing the results.
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Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Juan Salvo on May 27, 2012 at 6:34:44 am
We've seen the same results in Resolve, where the 580 is on par or slightly ahead with regards to CUDA processing. It has to do with a shift to a software task processor in the Kepler systems. The 690 may out perform the 580. But ofcourse so would the 590.
Hopefully the Kepler based Quadros will have a hardware task controller and improved CUDA performance.
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Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Erik Mickelson on May 30, 2012 at 5:12:10 pm
Nope, not happening on my mac.
I stopped the render after 15 minutes. Time remaining was over 7 hours. Obviously there is zero Open CL support(cannot select GPU option). Specs are in my sig.
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Mathew Lear on Jun 8, 2012 at 8:26:01 am
Quadros are definitely worth the money if your working in a engineering environment with multiple workstations and need support from nvidia.... But for home users and single user environments then geforce works just fine and in most cases better.....
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by John Macedo on Jul 3, 2012 at 1:30:20 am
Ben,
These are VERY telling scores you've recorded here... and here's another to spin your head.
I am running an Intel i7 920 @ 4.2GHz (52deg C w/ Coolmaster V8 fan)
with 12Gb of tripple-channel ram at PC16000 speed.
I was doing a project in Adobe Premiere Pro and noticed the rendering was TERRIBLE and this with a GTX580.
I remember this exact computer being faster, only 8 months prior, when I had my GTX295 in it.
Guess what? Using the Mercury Hack... Sure enough, the GTX295 was BLAZINGLY faster, I could bring up apps in the background, surf and more while I rendered.
There's something to be said for Dual-GPU and DEFINITELY something for having a memory-interface width of 896-bit. CUDA scores are only 480 and I am SO tempted to get a GTX690 because of the high scores it boasts... but after reading your article, I think I'll wait!
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Mark DeHerrera on Jun 11, 2012 at 6:29:51 pm
Question about your test machine. Did it use pci 3.0? Because i imagine that may give an edge to the 680 under those circumstances sicne the 680 supports 3.0 and the 580 does not. However, if it was PCI 2.o then this is still a valid benchmark for those with 2.0 slots on their motherboard.
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Eric Bowman on Jun 25, 2012 at 5:20:25 am
Thanks for doing the benchmark guys. I only wish I would have waited to buy my ATI 5870.
SO this doesn't help much, but here's what you guys can expect with a 4,1 model Mac Pro with the following specs:
- 2.4Ghz 8 core Xeon (2009?)
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 (1GB Ram)
- 24GB Ram
- Rendering to a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA drive
GRAND TOTAL RENDER TIME! 5hours and 45minutes. Ugh. That was using the BGRenderer plugin too.
I just bought the 5870 for Maya and I'm on 10.6.8. Guess it's time to get a MacVidCards nVidia GTX 570 and Lion. Wondering if it would be better to wait until Mountain Lion ships?
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Geoff Saville on Jul 30, 2012 at 12:02:07 pm
Hi All,
I've been looking for a way for AE CS6 to pick up my GTX590 on this one, then I finally realised it's just a matter of adding it to the supported cards list within the install directory.
I ran the benchmark and ended up with 4min30sec. I'm on PC, I'm nit sure if this was a MAC only experiment.
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Rob Bach on Nov 18, 2012 at 3:48:15 pm
I got the same time with same basic system MSI GTX 660Ti, i7 3770, ASRock Z77E, 16G RAM (8min) but when I rendered again..same AVI render I got a 5min 40second time..? Overclocking should get better times as seen below.
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by antonio alucema on Nov 7, 2012 at 7:09:51 pm
I just upgraded my 64-bit windows 7 workstation from a Quadro FX 580 to a GTX 680 and im having some serious anti-aliasing issues in After Effects with things such as Trapcode MIR, and Element 3D... everything seems really jagged and almost no anti-aliasing at all. I've updated to CS6 11.0.1 and tried to change the 680's anti-aliasing settings but nothing seems to fix the issue... anyone else had this problem? any ideas?
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Thanos Kagkalos on Feb 6, 2013 at 8:40:18 pm
How is that possible i do 7:07 on i7 3930k @ 3.5 / 32 gb ram / GTX 680 phantom 4gb / ssd intel 330
Isnt that a bit slow? i also noticed when i was working 3ds max my gpu based rendering was like 1 minute less than what i was reading in forums... What i ve possibly done wrong here? thanx
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Teddy Gage on Apr 21, 2013 at 7:59:59 pm
I find that render time extremely hard to believe from a 6xx series card, unless it is watercooled. Make sure your cache was cleared (if the frame are already on disc it will be 10x faster)
If confirmed, I will add it to the spreadsheet thanks
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by evan fotis on Dec 25, 2012 at 11:53:49 am
Got a lame 16m, 21s...
Win7x64, i7 350, 24GB Ram, Gigabyte GTX 460 1Gb used, rendered to a 2x1TB Raid 0 drive.
Time to upgrate GPU...
Which card would you suggest around $300?
Found the EVGA 660 Ti 3GB but read it does not support 4 monitors.
(Currently I have 2 cards installed to get 4 displays, but since both PS and AE performance is downgraded with dual cards I would prefer a single one that supports 4 displays)
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Matt Buckley on Jan 15, 2013 at 10:19:44 pm
Perfect time to find this thread. I have two video cards on hand and tried them both.
Common:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition OC'd to 3.9ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 8 64-bit
First video card:
GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 2GB 256-bit GDDR5
core clock 880MHz
384 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 9 min 55 sec
Second video card:
GeForce GTX 650 Ti 2GB 128-bit GDDR5
core clock 1071MHz
768 CUDA cores
AVI render time: 4 min 14 sec
Interesting find. Across the board with game performance, the 256-bit memory in the GTX 560 Ti sports a noticeable performance improvement over the GTX 650 Ti with only 128-bit memory. But when it came to rendering this project (as AVI), the newer card was twice as fast. Maybe it does have a lot to do with the CUDA cores in this case.
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Eddie Pratt on Feb 16, 2013 at 11:48:41 pm
5 mins 48 seconds
Mac Pro 4,1 Early 2009 - Dual 2.26GHz
24GB RAM
Lion 10.8.2
Single GTX 570 2.5GB VRAM - GPU 895MHz overclocked - Point of View (POV) TNT
In general I'm finding the performance of my machine on After Effects 6 better with just 1 graphics card (GTX 570) rather than adding the GT120 to use as a GUI card. This configuration works fine in Davinci Resolve lite too.
Outside this benchmark I've also noticed that the GPU is not used in lots of different situations whilst the CPU is heavily loaded i.e. when not using the Ray-traced 3D renderer. It seems like there must be a more efficient way of offloading CPU onto GPU when it's sitting there idly with practically no usage while the CPU struggles on!
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Roberto Tafuro on Apr 13, 2013 at 10:50:07 am
Intel i7 980x
GTX Asus 680 4GB
12 GB ram
First try 7min
Second try 18 sec...
Just to say that there are a lot of things that makes a render faster.
If you run a ram preview for ex it takes on my machine 4 minutes and the rendering takes 18 seconds after the ram preview.
If you lock the preview with the Caps the rendering is made in 5 minutes the first time. If i disable the Nod32 the rendering is done in 4 minutes too...
Funny esxperiments :)
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Cesar Siena on May 11, 2013 at 8:14:31 pm
Hi, I wonder how did make your Ae CS6 recognize the GTX 675MX card. Could you explain your steps, please? I work on PC's win8 and latest versions of Ae 11.0.2 and NVIDIA driver, but nothing's happening. Ae isn't able to recognize it as a compatible video board. Could you give me some hint? Thank you!
Re: AE CS6 11.0.1 CUDA BENCHMARK PROJECT - test your graphics cards! by Teddy Gage on Apr 21, 2013 at 7:29:46 pm
This is very interesting. Been very curious about the Titan's performance in AE
So basically, the titan seems to brute-force its way through to times that can compete (although not outlass) a speedy 580 setup, despite having less than optimal CUDA performance like the rest of the 6xx kepler series.
However it seems it may be software-limited performance, given that it's basically just a consumer version of the k20 used in the tesla.
What I'm curious about is viewport performance in maya, and whether it can outperform the radeon 7970...
Hope these results are informative and thanks to everyone who has posted their info so far. If I didn't include your results I only used one system per GPU unless the results were radically different (ie amd vs intel).
I would love to get more quadro and tesla results if possible to add to the list. Thanks!
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