I currently have a NVIDIA 128 MB GDDR3 6600 GPU and am looking at getting a NVIDIA 512 MB GDDR3 GEForce 7950 GT card. I'm wondering how much of an effect the graphics card has on video editing. Most of these cards are most for fast FPS for games, which is not what I need. Thanks.
2007-03-29 17:39:20 · 2 answers · asked by ougner 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Video editing and rendering is almost all CPU related. The video GPU is used in playback etc but not encoding. This is changing though because nvidia is giving programmers an API to make applications that take advantage of the GPU's which process 128 bit instructions and are very good at floating point calculations. So in the end, a graphics card will help you in playback framerate but will not help rendering
2007-03-29 17:44:41 · answer #1 · answered by michael p 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MP is absolutely correct... Video editing is all CPU, decoding, encoding, rendering... all CPU, almost NO load on video card.
If you're doing MPEG, there are hardware MPEG2 encoders, but if you're editing some OTHER format, it's all CPU, and not even multi-core is going to help you much.
2007-03-30 00:55:46 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋