Re: [Avid-L2] MC GPU acceleration - Fact or fantasy?

There was a well written resource floating around about 5-7 years ago I cannot find at the moment…hold the phone, found it.  Was in a blog post by Chris Bove.

Avid Media Composer: How It Uses Computers alwaysediting.com

Suffice to say AVID does indeed use GPU acceleration, but maybe not as easily measured.  Not sure how much has changed with the shift to full 64bit and modern interface.

IIRC it GPU processing was also about handling Media Composer's "real time" functions (RT Playback, AMA).  I would love to hear anyone chime in on this from AVID on the tech side.

The modern versions seem to be VERY memory hungry.

My .02,

Dave Hogan

Burbank, CA

On May 2, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Gowanus Canal <gowanuscanalstinks@gmail.com> wrote:

MC's GPU utilization is limited. It is mostly reserved for 3D based FX. Most of MC's task are CPU bound. 

DQS

On May 2, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Karl Knowles <tech@knowlesvideo.com> wrote:

I recently installed a Dell T3660 with a 12900K processor and an Nvidia RTX A4000, running MC 2022.12.1.

I'm not seeing any significant use of GPU processing at any point.  For example, rendering video mixdowns shows 100% CPU usage in Performance Monitor while only 5% GPU use.

I can't find any information on tweaking, tuning, tricking the system to get more work from the GPU.

Thoughts or suggestions?

Cheers,

Karl Knowles