Premiere Pro and HS, CUDA or OpenCL?

[jhero]

Hi there,

I've been editing with Premiere using a CMP 5,1 3.46 12c and a GTX 970 under 10.11 for a while but I've uninstalled CUDA and mainly utilized OpenCL playback/render as I noticed way too many glitches while using CUDA.

I mainly work with ProRes and H.264 footage off a raid.

I've just upgraded to High Sierra and was considering either stepping up to the 1080ti or moving to a RX580. Has HS improved CUDA performance with Pascal cards or would I be better off with an RX580 and continuing to use OpenCL for both playback/rendering?

Mainly I use Lumetri and Filmconvert plugins.

Thank you

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Hi there,

I've been editing with Premiere using a CMP 5,1 3.46 12c and a GTX 970 under 10.11 for a while but I've uninstalled CUDA and mainly utilized OpenCL playback/render as I noticed way too many glitches while using CUDA.

I mainly work with ProRes and H.264 footage off a raid.

I've just upgraded to High Sierra and was considering either stepping up to the 1080ti or moving to a RX580. Has HS improved CUDA performance with Pascal cards or would I be better off with an RX580 and continuing to use OpenCL for both playback/rendering?

Mainly I use Lumetri and Filmconvert plugins.

Thank you

Use CL. There’s no CUDA benefit on macOS.

 

[jhero]

Use CL. There’s no CUDA benefit on macOS.

OK, and in this you also recommend the 580 rather than using the 970/1080 in CL?

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

OK, and in this you also recommend the 580 rather than using the 970/1080 in CL?

Grab a 1070 if you can. They are energy efficient and very strong performers. Even better if you use them with Premiere on Boot Camp with optimal GeForce drivers. Mac drivers have pseudo/beta support for anything over GTX 680.

Media Encoder rendering performance is about 4x faster in Windows because the Nvidia drivers properly support all the features of the GPU.

 

[jhero]

Grab a 1070 if you can. They are energy efficient and very strong performers. Even better if you use them with Premiere on Boot Camp with optimal GeForce drivers. Mac drivers have pseudo/beta support for anything over GTX 680.

Media Encoder rendering performance is about 4x faster in Windows because the Nvidia drivers properly support all the features of the GPU.

OK. However our office primarily works in OS X and would not benefit from working in BootCamp — but the 1070 would still be the better choice over there RX580 even with the current driver situation?

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

OK. However our office primarily works in OS X and would not benefit from working in BootCamp — but the 1070 would still be the better choice over there RX580 even with the current driver situation?

Obviously the 580 is a safer choice because of native support. Apple doesn’t include any support for the hardware encoder/decoder on the GPU though. Neither does Nvidia on macOS.

If you’re not going to Boot Camp avoid Nvidia in case severe Mac bugs show up at some point.