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the gtx 1080 is currently the fastest single GPU card on the market it's fantastic for games no doubt about that but how does it perform in a video production environment specifically for GPU accelerated effects and CUDA support through Adobe CC what's up guys I'm Dimitri with I recognize and the GTX 980 is behind me in that PC and this is the gtx 980ti we'll be comparing these two cards today I've been using the 980 TI ever since launch for video production it has been a fantastic card but with a new performance King in games right there right behind the how will that impact rendering times with Adobe Premiere and Adobe CC applications let's find out and before I show you the benchmarks which card do you think will win this test will be the 980ti with more cooler cores more texture units and more ROP s but slower clock speeds and less V RAM or will it be the 1080 which has less cuda cores but faster clock speeds more V RAM which is also faster for testing I'm using my sky like workstation PC behind me with these specs and to establish some type of reference point for comparison of how much faster the new GTX 980 is compared to the 1980 I for gaming here is the firestrike ultra test and you can see the result with the 25% difference between the cards which is fairly significant Baljit 4 is next which gave me a 27% boost on the GTX 1080 Metro last light Redux showing a 20% boost and finally Armour 3 showing a 16% difference between the averages but look at that fantastic minimum which is totally playable so no doubt the GTX 1080 wins the gaming round but surprise surprise when it comes to video production environment that performance gap just closes so we're going to start off with Cinebench r15 OpenGL benchmarks which shows an almost identical score moving over to Adobe Media encoder where we transcode native four key files from the gh4 to sinha form correct which is a lot more editing friendly and this 11 second difference on a total of eleven files is truly not significant then i exported a six-minute 4k project and a one-minute 4k project and you can see here the 980ti finished exporting that larger sequence 25 second faster than the GTX 1080 now when we move away from the benchmarks the only real difference I noticed between using these two cards is temperatures the GTX 980 staying much cooler at 53 degrees in idle and 66 degrees Celsius while at load while exporting stuff while the gtx 980ti was at 66 degrees Celsius at idle so you can see there is a huge difference there and 83 degrees while at load so seeing all these results are you at all surprised to see no difference in the rendering performance me that's exactly what I was expecting that's why I teased it a little bit simply because driver support is not there yet so retesting will have to be done as soon as both Nvidia and Adobe side of things sort of come up with a cohesive driver that implements Pascal engine when better cooler support with Adobe applications we'll be doing three tests as soon as they come out but a perfect example here is that driver support is so important it's not all about raw horsepower a perfect example of Pascal being so fresh in the market and how it's not really utilized just yet is with octane bench the 980ti scores 114 points while GTX 1080 is not a supported GPU just yet because they have to redo the CUDA and the engine in octane so that it can support the new Pascal architecture and so the bottom line is the GTX 980 is not a worthy upgrade for video production as you saw there was no difference in the rendering performance between the two cards yet so much such a large gap and gaming performance between the GTX 1080 and the 980 TI it all comes down to drivers and I hope that Nvidia and adobe come up together to fix that problem with drivers and hopefully having a better driver support from the Adobe side of things for more officially supported GPUs for well more maxwell cards and hopefully eventually pascal cards too and this concludes this video thank you guys so much for watching if you have any suggestions on what type of software and production environment you'd like me to test the gtx 1080 in the future I'll definitely be doing a retesting with the card as soon as any patches or adobe driver stuff comes out so make sure to subscribe for that and I'm about to start packing for Taipei for Computex so we'll see you there and actually we'll be editing you in the next sequence