Video Encoding and Decoding with NVIDIA Hardware Acceleration
- The longer I have the project open, the more laggy premiere becomes as well. Any ideas on how to fix this? E: I should also mention- sometimes the footage used is stored a server. Late 2013 Mac Pro 10.10.2 Yosemite 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 32 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB.
- That means when Apple releases the new Mac Pro with its integrated workstation FirePro cards (likely W9000), it will take full hardware advantage of AMD and NVIDIA solutions. It also looks like Adobe is giving full hardware support for the new graphics cards, as well as many of those currently in use.
- To help, you're also getting a Radeon Pro 560X graphics card, which does aid with GPU acceleration in Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere. A downside to the 21.5' iMac is the mere 8GB of RAM. Unlike the 27', you can't upgrade the memory of the 21.5' iMac, since there isn't easy access to the memory.
CUDA, NVENC, and NVDEC are the main technologies used by NVIDIA GPU. NVCUVENC for older video cards and drivers is deprecated and replaced by NVENC.
1. CUDA
CUDA® was introduced in 2006 as a computing platform and programming. CUDA is used to deliver the merits of GPU acceleration and thus computing performance is dramatically improved. However, power consumption is increased if we use high-speed CUDA cores to process video encoding. CUDA-enabled products cover CUDA Toolkit, CUDA C/C++ programming language, and more. There are thousands of CUDA GPU accelerated applications, ranging from Adobe's Premiere Pro to Apple's Final Cut Pro.
Supported codecs: H.264
Operating system support: Windows (10, 801, 7), Mac (10.12), Linux
Supported GPU: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro, Tesla GPUs, and NVIDIA GRID solutions. Here's a full list of CUDA GPUs.
CUDA-accelerated Performance
CUDA applications on NVIDIA GPUs deliver 2X to 5X faster performance acceleration than CPUs. Below is the test result from NVIDIA CUDA official report. Performance can be influenced by the computer system, applications versions etc. noted by NVIDIA.
GPU: NVIDIA Tesla K80 and P100 (SXM2), Base locks, cube mesh topology (DGX-1)
CUDA 8 GA with r361.79 (K80) and r361.96 (P100)
CPU: Intel Xeon Broadwell dual socket 22-core with Ubuntu 14.04.3x86-64 and 256GB Memory.
The fastest CUDA-based video converter, MacX Video Converter Pro transcodes 3846x2160 4K video with up to 150fps on iMac of 2013 (16G 1600MHz memory, and NVIDIA GeForce GT755M 1GB graphics).
Not meaning to bash the new Mac Pro – indeed, we're considering getting one for Trish, who has been surviving with a 2008 vintage 8-core Mac Pro – it is possible to build out a Windows system to exceed the performance of a 2013 12-core Mac Pro with dual A700s when it comes to running certain representative tests using with Adobe Premiere Pro. The Mac Pro uses AMD cards. However Photoshop is not big in using CUDA either (My Core 2 Duo at home with Windows, is faster with Photoshop that our Core i7 (1st gen) Mac Pro) We recently got the new Mac Pro.Total waste of money, since after everything it was over 12K. Premier is what uses the GPU the most.
2. NVENC
NVENC introduced in 2012 is one of the key features of NVIDIA's Video Codec SDK. It performs video hardware encoding. NVENC hardware accelerated encoder, the specialized circuitry for video encoding, is up to four times faster than CUDA encoding for newer graphics cards and consumes less power at the same time. Meantime, the quality of NVENC is the same as CUDA. According to NVIDIA's test, NVENC-based H.264 encoding is 5x faster than CPU-based x264 encoding by offloading compute-intensive task from CPU. Note that system, configuration and others may influence the performance result.
Supported codecs: H.264, H.265
Operating system support: Windows and Linux
Which graphics cards support NVENC: Quadro K420 and higher, GRID K1/K2/GRID K340/GRID K520, Tesla K10 and higher. Note that Quadro GP100 and Tesla P100 don't support NVENC-accelerated HEVC 8K encoding. NVENC hardware accelerated H.265 (HEVC) 4K lossless/8K encoding is only available on Quadro P400 and later and Tesla P4 and higher. NVENC-based H.264 hardware encoding works on all gens of NVIDIA GPUS.
NVENC-based Video Encoding Performance
Internet browsers for mac. Copyem paste a superior clipboard manager 2 1 2. From the H.264 video encoding performance table below, we get to know that NVENC hardware accelerated H.264 encoding is much faster than CPU based x264 encoding, and the former delivers little performance loss. But we can see that GPU accelerated encoder NVENC can be inefficient in quality per bitrate. If you have powerful enough CPU or multiple cores, x264 encoding would be better for stable recording and streaming.
Mac Pro Late 2013 Adobe Premiere Hardware Acceleration Sensor
In terms of H.265 encoding, the 2nd generation Maxwell GPU (Maxsun MS-GTX 960 2G graphics card) offers up to 480fps NVENC accelerated HEVC video encoding. FFmpeg with GPU featuring accelerated HEVC encoder gets 90fps speed increase, compared to encoding 4K UHD HEVC 10-bit video via CPU.
Adobe Premiere Pro Hardware Requirements
3. NVDEC
NVDEC (formally named as NVCUVID), a newer NVIDIA's VDPAU-successor, was initially part of the CUDA toolkit and then moved to the CUDA-based NVIDIA Video Codec SDK. NVDEC engine on NVIDIA GPUs decodes the input video bitstream in supported formats. Libav picked up NVDEC support first, then FFmpeg and GStreamer followed in 2017.
Supported codecs: MPEG-2, H.264, H.265, VP9, VP8, VC-1
The codec support depends on GPU architecture.
Operating system support: Windows and Linux
Which graphics cards support NVENC: Quadro K2000 and higher, GRID K1/K2/GRID K340/GRID K520, Tesla K10 and higher, the same as NVENC GPUs. Tesla V100/P100/M40/M60/M6/M4, Quadro M2000 and higher GPUs feature NVDEC HEVC decoding.
NVDEC GPU-accelerated Video Decoding
NVDEC hardware-based decoder offers much faster video decoding for MPEG-2, H.264, H.265 and VP9, VP8, as mentioned before. NVDEC is widely used for video processing applications, especially video transcoding and playback applications. Telsa P40 decode with up to 340 fps in 2560x1440 and 160fps in 3840x2160 thanks to NVDEC accelerated H.264 decoder. However, NVDEC HEVC decoding may fail to work as expected. Many users complain that NVDEC creates artifacts when decoding HEVC 10-bit video streams.
Hello,
I bought a couple of years ago a brand new fantastic Mac Pro, but in just few months I started thinking that I made a terrible choice.
The computer freezes very often since I've updated it to El Capitan, but it was difficult to work on Adobe Premiere since from the very beginning: ridiculously slow, three hours to render a 4 minutes clip. 😐
Can alexa access itunes library on mac.
I contacted the Apple Store, they kept it for a week, they told me that it passed all the hardware's tests and they found nothing bad.
The mac still hangs. SO FRUSTRATING.
How to use external camera on mac. Mark of the ninja: remastered v 1 0 (2018).
Mac Pro Late 2013 Adobe Premiere Hardware Acceleration Problems
I work on Photoshop most of the time, but I experience the 'freeze' even simply browsing folders with finder or visiting a website on Chrome or watching movies. I unplugged every usb/firewire device, the mac still freezes. How to use external dvd drive on mac. I repaired disk permissions but reports seem ok.
I started with Mavericks, I upgraded to Yosemite, I reinstalled from scratch El Capitan.
But nothing actually changed related to the freezing issue, every once and then (sometimes up to 8 times a day) I need to force a reboot using the power button, because everything is frozen.
The trackpad and the pen tablet (a Wacom Pro Medium) are frozen, no key is accepted.
Adobe Premiere Free Mac
Apple has determined that graphic cards in some late 2013 Mac Pros may cause video issues -no video, system instability, freezing- but it seems that only the AMD FirePro D500/D700 GPU are affected (I have the basic model with a D300).
Do you have any hint?? Is there anything I can do to understand what's wrong??
CUDA, NVENC, and NVDEC are the main technologies used by NVIDIA GPU. NVCUVENC for older video cards and drivers is deprecated and replaced by NVENC.
1. CUDA
CUDA® was introduced in 2006 as a computing platform and programming. CUDA is used to deliver the merits of GPU acceleration and thus computing performance is dramatically improved. However, power consumption is increased if we use high-speed CUDA cores to process video encoding. CUDA-enabled products cover CUDA Toolkit, CUDA C/C++ programming language, and more. There are thousands of CUDA GPU accelerated applications, ranging from Adobe's Premiere Pro to Apple's Final Cut Pro.
Supported codecs: H.264
Operating system support: Windows (10, 801, 7), Mac (10.12), Linux
Supported GPU: NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro, Tesla GPUs, and NVIDIA GRID solutions. Here's a full list of CUDA GPUs.
CUDA-accelerated Performance
CUDA applications on NVIDIA GPUs deliver 2X to 5X faster performance acceleration than CPUs. Below is the test result from NVIDIA CUDA official report. Performance can be influenced by the computer system, applications versions etc. noted by NVIDIA.
GPU: NVIDIA Tesla K80 and P100 (SXM2), Base locks, cube mesh topology (DGX-1)
CUDA 8 GA with r361.79 (K80) and r361.96 (P100)
CPU: Intel Xeon Broadwell dual socket 22-core with Ubuntu 14.04.3x86-64 and 256GB Memory.
The fastest CUDA-based video converter, MacX Video Converter Pro transcodes 3846x2160 4K video with up to 150fps on iMac of 2013 (16G 1600MHz memory, and NVIDIA GeForce GT755M 1GB graphics).
Not meaning to bash the new Mac Pro – indeed, we're considering getting one for Trish, who has been surviving with a 2008 vintage 8-core Mac Pro – it is possible to build out a Windows system to exceed the performance of a 2013 12-core Mac Pro with dual A700s when it comes to running certain representative tests using with Adobe Premiere Pro. The Mac Pro uses AMD cards. However Photoshop is not big in using CUDA either (My Core 2 Duo at home with Windows, is faster with Photoshop that our Core i7 (1st gen) Mac Pro) We recently got the new Mac Pro.Total waste of money, since after everything it was over 12K. Premier is what uses the GPU the most.
2. NVENC
NVENC introduced in 2012 is one of the key features of NVIDIA's Video Codec SDK. It performs video hardware encoding. NVENC hardware accelerated encoder, the specialized circuitry for video encoding, is up to four times faster than CUDA encoding for newer graphics cards and consumes less power at the same time. Meantime, the quality of NVENC is the same as CUDA. According to NVIDIA's test, NVENC-based H.264 encoding is 5x faster than CPU-based x264 encoding by offloading compute-intensive task from CPU. Note that system, configuration and others may influence the performance result.
Supported codecs: H.264, H.265
Operating system support: Windows and Linux
Which graphics cards support NVENC: Quadro K420 and higher, GRID K1/K2/GRID K340/GRID K520, Tesla K10 and higher. Note that Quadro GP100 and Tesla P100 don't support NVENC-accelerated HEVC 8K encoding. NVENC hardware accelerated H.265 (HEVC) 4K lossless/8K encoding is only available on Quadro P400 and later and Tesla P4 and higher. NVENC-based H.264 hardware encoding works on all gens of NVIDIA GPUS.
NVENC-based Video Encoding Performance
Internet browsers for mac. Copyem paste a superior clipboard manager 2 1 2. From the H.264 video encoding performance table below, we get to know that NVENC hardware accelerated H.264 encoding is much faster than CPU based x264 encoding, and the former delivers little performance loss. But we can see that GPU accelerated encoder NVENC can be inefficient in quality per bitrate. If you have powerful enough CPU or multiple cores, x264 encoding would be better for stable recording and streaming.
Mac Pro Late 2013 Adobe Premiere Hardware Acceleration Sensor
In terms of H.265 encoding, the 2nd generation Maxwell GPU (Maxsun MS-GTX 960 2G graphics card) offers up to 480fps NVENC accelerated HEVC video encoding. FFmpeg with GPU featuring accelerated HEVC encoder gets 90fps speed increase, compared to encoding 4K UHD HEVC 10-bit video via CPU.
Adobe Premiere Pro Hardware Requirements
3. NVDEC
NVDEC (formally named as NVCUVID), a newer NVIDIA's VDPAU-successor, was initially part of the CUDA toolkit and then moved to the CUDA-based NVIDIA Video Codec SDK. NVDEC engine on NVIDIA GPUs decodes the input video bitstream in supported formats. Libav picked up NVDEC support first, then FFmpeg and GStreamer followed in 2017.
Supported codecs: MPEG-2, H.264, H.265, VP9, VP8, VC-1
The codec support depends on GPU architecture.
Operating system support: Windows and Linux
Which graphics cards support NVENC: Quadro K2000 and higher, GRID K1/K2/GRID K340/GRID K520, Tesla K10 and higher, the same as NVENC GPUs. Tesla V100/P100/M40/M60/M6/M4, Quadro M2000 and higher GPUs feature NVDEC HEVC decoding.
NVDEC GPU-accelerated Video Decoding
NVDEC hardware-based decoder offers much faster video decoding for MPEG-2, H.264, H.265 and VP9, VP8, as mentioned before. NVDEC is widely used for video processing applications, especially video transcoding and playback applications. Telsa P40 decode with up to 340 fps in 2560x1440 and 160fps in 3840x2160 thanks to NVDEC accelerated H.264 decoder. However, NVDEC HEVC decoding may fail to work as expected. Many users complain that NVDEC creates artifacts when decoding HEVC 10-bit video streams.
Hello,
I bought a couple of years ago a brand new fantastic Mac Pro, but in just few months I started thinking that I made a terrible choice.
The computer freezes very often since I've updated it to El Capitan, but it was difficult to work on Adobe Premiere since from the very beginning: ridiculously slow, three hours to render a 4 minutes clip. 😐
Can alexa access itunes library on mac.
I contacted the Apple Store, they kept it for a week, they told me that it passed all the hardware's tests and they found nothing bad.
The mac still hangs. SO FRUSTRATING.
How to use external camera on mac. Mark of the ninja: remastered v 1 0 (2018).
Mac Pro Late 2013 Adobe Premiere Hardware Acceleration Problems
I work on Photoshop most of the time, but I experience the 'freeze' even simply browsing folders with finder or visiting a website on Chrome or watching movies. I unplugged every usb/firewire device, the mac still freezes. How to use external dvd drive on mac. I repaired disk permissions but reports seem ok.
I started with Mavericks, I upgraded to Yosemite, I reinstalled from scratch El Capitan.
But nothing actually changed related to the freezing issue, every once and then (sometimes up to 8 times a day) I need to force a reboot using the power button, because everything is frozen.
The trackpad and the pen tablet (a Wacom Pro Medium) are frozen, no key is accepted.
Adobe Premiere Free Mac
Apple has determined that graphic cards in some late 2013 Mac Pros may cause video issues -no video, system instability, freezing- but it seems that only the AMD FirePro D500/D700 GPU are affected (I have the basic model with a D300).
Do you have any hint?? Is there anything I can do to understand what's wrong??
Dell docking station mac. I wish I could be able, at least, to reproduce the issue, but sometimes it needs days between a 'freeze' and another. Crash reports are not generated either, this is one of the Console error messages that I could find:
WindowServer[176]: GPU Driver appears to be hung (over 5 continuous seconds of unreadiness)
I'm a professional photographer and working is very unproductive and frustrating. I'm loosing time clients money and my temper, and I'd like an answer from Apple about this.
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
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