Hello all, new to the forums.
I searched around and didn't see any reference, so here goes....
I recently acquired a Dell Precision T7500 workstation. It's old, but beefy - see my computer specs in my profile. I'm editing 1080/60 and 4k/60 video from a Phantom 4 Pro drone, mostly, and the computer doesn't seem any faster (maybe slower) than my laptop (lenovo E560, i7, 16 GB RAM). Even though the workstation is old, it seems like the specs totally blow the laptop away. The only thing I can think of that would be a bottleneck at this time is the Tesla C2050 GPU. From my research I see that it's not really designed for graphics at all, but more "parallel processing". And, it only has one DVI out, which stinks. Am I on the right track, thinking this is the bottleneck? Mostly I'm talking about previews of effects in the preview window of PowerDirector 15. If this card doesn't cut it, I'd love a recommendation for a budget replacement that would be better, and has dual monitor outputs, at least.
TIA!
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I didn't see where my computer specs were anywhere visible, so here they are:
Dell Precision T7500, Dual Xeon X5650, 48 GB RAM, 6TB RAID 5 SAS
Currently Tesla C2050 GPU
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See the info here, they discuss xeon processors and various GPU choices which may give some perspective:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/videoeditingLast edited by davexnet; 1st Mar 2018 at 21:03.
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Many editors/encoder don't use the GPU for anything than displaying the GUI and video. Any low end GPU can handle that. A faster GPU won't do anything for you unless your software can use it's processing and encoding features.
Last edited by jagabo; 1st Mar 2018 at 21:14.
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Gotcha, I see that now. And I don't have Davinci Resolve
Still, I suspect my video card. Although I could be wrong, I may buy a cheap one just to have another monitor output at least, and see what happens. Thanks for the reply!
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I saw that PowerDirector (some version) supports GPU features:
https://www.cyberlink.com/support/product-faq-content.do?id=12777&
Regarding your dual Xeon's -- all those cores and threads won't help if there is a singled thread bottleneck in the editor.
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