Graphics Cards
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:50
Surprised this hasn't been done already. Let's try and get a list of graphics cards/drivers and how they perform with Resolume.
PNY Quadro K5000
Driver: 331.82
Time in use: 10 months, 4-7 days/week, 8-16 hours/day
Pros: Good reliable card, lots of memory for large composition, single gpu. Early drivers would crash more often, but would get better. Now it rarely crashes.
Cons: Price. Weird issue recognizing a (Chinese) LED card on boot-up sometimes - non-standard resolution too. Even replugging cable wouldn't work sometimes, required restart. Card/Arena would crash whenever opening After Effects, sometimes Photoshop/Illustrator. Things like Whorld/vvvv texture sharing don't work because card doesn't have the proper commands in OpenGL
Use: Direct to LED sending cards/DVI converter for Tricaster
2 x PNY GTX 780
Driver: 332.21
Time in use: 1 week
Pros: Running in SLI mode, even though it doesn't matter it hasn't caused problems. Cheap. No issue at all recognizing LED card. Seemingly less delay when outputting an input card signal than the K5000 (1-2 frames, where with Quadro was at 3-4). So far no issues opening other programs that need GPU.
Cons: More crashes with driver than K5000, may roll back to "Game Ready" driver (same version a 5000). I see the tearing/stuttering people mention in other threads now, even with rotated lines.
Use: Direct to LED sending cards/DVI converter for Tricaster
PNY Quadro K5000
Driver: 331.82
Time in use: 10 months, 4-7 days/week, 8-16 hours/day
Pros: Good reliable card, lots of memory for large composition, single gpu. Early drivers would crash more often, but would get better. Now it rarely crashes.
Cons: Price. Weird issue recognizing a (Chinese) LED card on boot-up sometimes - non-standard resolution too. Even replugging cable wouldn't work sometimes, required restart. Card/Arena would crash whenever opening After Effects, sometimes Photoshop/Illustrator. Things like Whorld/vvvv texture sharing don't work because card doesn't have the proper commands in OpenGL
Use: Direct to LED sending cards/DVI converter for Tricaster
2 x PNY GTX 780
Driver: 332.21
Time in use: 1 week
Pros: Running in SLI mode, even though it doesn't matter it hasn't caused problems. Cheap. No issue at all recognizing LED card. Seemingly less delay when outputting an input card signal than the K5000 (1-2 frames, where with Quadro was at 3-4). So far no issues opening other programs that need GPU.
Cons: More crashes with driver than K5000, may roll back to "Game Ready" driver (same version a 5000). I see the tearing/stuttering people mention in other threads now, even with rotated lines.
Use: Direct to LED sending cards/DVI converter for Tricaster