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Answer» I'm replacing a motherboard in my HP Elitebook 8460p since the GPU in it died and two ports are broken.... I got this computer for cheap and even with a motherboard replacment I'm spending less than $100.... I can go with a motherboard from an HP Elitebook 8460p, 8460w, 8470p or 8470w as they will all fit in the 8460p chassis but am sticking to the 8460p or 8460w boards since I need the dedicated graphics of the older machine.... now should I go with the 8460p board with Radeon HD 6570M graphics or the 8460w board with AMD FirePro M3900 I don't know anything about this FirePro card and don't know if it's the same as the 6570m card but just for professionals but my video editor requires a Radeon HD 6000 series graphics card and don't wanna go with the FirePro M3900 if it won't work well with my video editor.... should I stick with the 6570M or bite the bullet and go for the FirePro M3900? Ive been rendering without a graphics card for awhile now and am ready to get rendering done in 15 min compared to 3 HOURS
what do you guys think? need some suggestions Are you sure that the software your using needs a heavier video card (GPU) to process a video editing job? You could have a better GPU and it still take 3 hours.
The software that I use for video editing are CPU intensive and not so much GPU. Video editing with a 35 watt TDP laptop is still going to be slow even with a better GPU I am thinking unless the software itself taps into the GPU to do what it does.
Software I use hits all CPU cores to 100% while processing a video editing / conversion job to create the end result. The GPU is only used when playing back what was created etc. A recorded video game event that is an hour long takes about 3 to 4 hours to make into a smaller and edited version for youtube etc. I generally have my system run this when i am sleeping and I wake up and its done in the morning. Dave: Modern Video editors have supported off-loading many rendering and encoding tasks to the GPU if the GPU supports it, starting around 7 years ago.
As an example back when I used to make videos on my old system, Video editors were able to offload processing from my Q8200 to my 9800GT which caused many things to be faster than if I had not had the graphics card- often twice as fast. The two graphics chips mentioned are in the same time frame and look to support the same features that are utilized by most Video Editing software.
As to the two chips, it seems that the Radeon is over twice the performance. However, even then, it is hard to say- because the Radeon chip doesn't have OpenCL, and the FirePro card supports OpenCL 1.1 which could very well allow for much greater use of the GPU by the video editing software.
The Radeon is likely to give the better overall experience, I expect- it is twice the performance in almost EVERY other aspect I could find.
Quote from: DaveLembke on December 08, 2017, 09:04:23 AM Are you sure that the software your using needs a heavier video card (GPU) to process a video editing job? You could have a better GPU and it still take 3 hours.
The software that I use for video editing are CPU intensive and not so much GPU. Video editing with a 35 watt TDP laptop is still going to be slow even with a better GPU I am thinking unless the software itself taps into the GPU to do what it does.
Software I use hits all CPU cores to 100% while processing a video editing / conversion job to create the end result. The GPU is only used when playing back what was created etc. A recorded video game event that is an hour long takes about 3 to 4 hours to make into a smaller and edited version for youtube etc. I generally have my system run this when i am sleeping and I wake up and its done in the morning.
from all I've gotten in information I know that if I was to use a core 2 duo without any GPU it would take over 4 hours to render a 30 min 1080p video if you upgrade to a core 2 quad it cuts it down to 2.5 hours about without graphics and with a core 2 duo and Radeon HD 6000 series graphics it takes around 45 min - 1 hour but both a core 2 quad and Radeon HD 6000 series graphics it cuts it down to just 15 min to render a video... but i'm getting a top of the line 2ND gen i7 quad core to go with the machine
Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 08, 2017, 12:09:27 PMDave: Modern Video editors have supported off-loading many rendering and encoding tasks to the GPU if the GPU supports it, starting around 7 years ago.
As an example back when I used to make videos on my old system, Video editors were able to offload processing from my Q8200 to my 9800GT which caused many things to be faster than if I had not had the graphics card- often twice as fast. The two graphics chips mentioned are in the same time frame and look to support the same features that are utilized by most Video Editing software.
As to the two chips, it seems that the Radeon is over twice the performance. However, even then, it is hard to say- because the Radeon chip doesn't have OpenCL, and the FirePro card supports OpenCL 1.1 which could very well allow for much greater use of the GPU by the video editing software.
The Radeon is likely to give the better overall experience, I expect- it is twice the performance in almost every other aspect I could find.
I'm thinking about going with the 6570m 1GB card over the 6570m 512MB and M3900 because I'm not sure about the M3900's compatibility and don't feel like wasting money just to try it plus 1GB of dedicated ram with the Radeon 6570m is better then 512MB right? if you say the Radeon is better i'll go with it plus i'm more confident it will work.... but now the question is is the M3900 just the professional variant of the 6570m? if it is then it may still work but maybe not as fast or not as good?
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