There's certainly been a lot of talk about how faster graphics cards, GPUs, can work magic for video (and photo) editing. All of the Adobe apps, as well as nearly all other big names in editing, come with GPU acceleration. What's accelerated, as far as video is concerned, is of course mainly the rendering part. Other things are accelerated too, even playback, but nothing will save you as much time as efficient rendering. Now that I'm in the process of upgrading my PC, this has raised some questions. How much do I gain and what video card should I choose? Do I need a certified "pro" GPU like the Quadro series, or will any cheap video gaming card like Geforce or Radeon work just as well? I've tried to work this out, and these are my findings. Please let me know in the comments section if I'm missing something. The short version is that I do not intend to pay for a Quadro card ever again. One of the more interesting posts I ran into was this. The GPU benchmark comparisons here have been created with OctaneBench, which is made by OctaneRender. However the results should be at least indicative of what rendering performance to expect in other circumstances as well. More importantly, CGDirector has also compared the price VS performance ration and produced some stunning results: Now the Quadro cards are obviously good, but when the price-to-performance calculation is also considered it's obvious that you can get even better performance for much less. The incredibly expensive Nvidia Quadro GP100 is, as I understand it, has some huge advantages for certain applications. But this doesn't really apply for rendering video. Also see this article detailing that the much cheaper Titan XP (and most likely even cheaper cards) is only slightly behind. I also found a Youtube video with some rendering examples using Premiere 2015.4. It's in Spanish, but I scrubbed to the most interesting part. In this comparison of only GeForce GPUs, the difference between them is surprisingly small. I'll rely more on the Premiere Pro CC and OctaneBench results in any event, but it's obvious that I'd rather invest in a "gaming" CPU for my purposes.
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