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this gaming gravis card it can do it all or can it so ever since I've started making videos for you guys I've been using a professional rendering application namely Adobe Premiere Pro and that's had support for CUDA and I've never gotten around to testing and I've just never bothered I always thought it made or it gave a significant advantage over not having it on however recently with the r9 290 coming in from AMD or gigabyte I recently I decided to test that in Vegas Pro because Vegas Pro uses OpenCL and that's known to support AMD graphics cards so essentially you can use your graphics card to help render a video and so basically I decided to get the GTX 970 that I have here and then get the r9 290 and then use it on my testbed which is a 5820k from intel and i7 5820k that's clocked at 4.2 gigs and I decided to run some apples to apples test to see how these graphics cards or these gaming graphics cards did in the real world so let's move on now to the benchmarks so first up here we have Vegas Pro 13 now this is just a trial edition I downloaded so I got to use this program for 30 days but that's all I needed to run the tests I did I decided to render a four minute and 38 second video the output was 1080p best quality and as we can see here the CPU only so when I set the CPU to only that scored four minutes and 38 seconds so that one that beat both the GTX 970 and the r9 290 and now the iron 290 was overclocked as well so this was OpenCL and I believe the GTX 970 uses CUDA in this application so when I use the GTX 970 that's called 5 minutes and 6 seconds and the uh 9290 scored 4 minutes and 50 seconds so the CPU only was the best way to go if I use my gaming graphics card to help Brenda it made no difference at all so I don't know what's going on here in Vegas Pro maybe there's some setting extra settings I need to do but essentially a gaming graphics card like a high-end gaming graphics card was useless in this application so Vegas Pro 13 did not make a difference how about Premiere Pro cs6 which uses the Merc engine now this engine support scooter and so when I did these tests I was surprised as well my gaming graphics card the GTX 970 only sped up times by 12 seconds that's right so it's scored 4 minutes and 45 seconds versus the CPU only which scored 4 minutes and 57 seconds and so this surprised me because like again just like Vegas Pro the gaming graphics card practically made no difference at all when it came to making the render times faster I decided just for curiosity as you guys know what about what about if we disabled some cause what about if I had a GTX 970 on a dual-core how would that go and so this is the test I did I decided to disable four cores on my58 20k and just have two cores running at 4.2 gigs with the GTX 970 again CUDA support enabled and what I found here is we got 622 seconds or 10 minutes and 22 seconds so again the CPU was the most important part in this equation and so it surprised me actually so essentially if you guys want to drop your render times then you might want to think about getting a better CPU or getting a professional-grade GPU I mean the gaming graphics cards they just didn't make a difference when it came to dropping render times and I looked around the internet I tried to find as much information as I could but I just couldn't find any real solid videos that have compared especially 2014 graphics cards gaming graphics cards to each other to see which gives the best or best results anyway so hopefully you guys enjoyed this video but in a nutshell yeah you want to be getting a good CPU if you are doing professional productivity work or you want to get a professional graphics card because the gaming graphics cards didn't do a great job of reducing the times but they might do a better job of of course maybe giving you more display outs maybe helping with previews whatnot so there's other advantages to having a gaming graphics card but I just wanted to more pacifically test the benchmarks and the render times and it didn't make a difference will practically make no difference at all and in some cases in Vegas the pro 13 it actually was d'etre mental to the rendering times so any guys I hope you enjoyed this benchmark if you did please give it a thumbs up if you have any questions leave a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and I'll catch you guys with another tech video very soon peace out for now bye