GPU support in MEP PREMIUM 2019

Former user wrote on 3/20/2019, 6:30 PM

Hi guys, Just wondering if anyone knows if MEP PREMIUM 2019 (on a fully fully patched Win10 64bit 16gig) will see improved performance with an Nvidia 2G GTX960 card over a Nvidia 2G GTX560ti. I am primarily interested in video effects preview (NewblueFX and HitFilm) speed and MP4 export speeds.

I did read a rather old post (2016) post that says that MEP only utilises cards up to the GTX5xx series.

Being 2019 now, I would hope that this number has increased somewhat by now.

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Scenestealer wrote on 3/24/2019, 6:21 PM

Hi and welcome to the forum.

I doubt you will see any appreciable improvement in preview speed and would see, unless your CPU has an integrated GPU (Intel), that Hardware accelerated export is unavailable.

As you have noted HW export via CUDA was only available on Nvidia cards up to GTX5xx series and some early 6xx series which used the Fermi chip. After this, Main Concept who make the encoder, stopped supplying an SDK to Magix for the newer chips to work with CUDA. Magix continued the development of HW accelerated export with Intel using their integrated iGPU which works as least as well.

Only recently has Magix enabled HW HEVC (H.265) Mp4 export via NVENC on Pascall series chips on Nvidia cards in their prosumer Video Pro X program. Minimum GTX1050 recommended although some report that 960 works as well.

The preview HW support in Magix programs does not use CUDA or NVENC but is enabled via Direct(X) Compute on all cards.

Peter