GTX 1080 or Titan X for video rendering?

[piowoc]

Hi,

I was just about to upgrade from my Radeon 7970 to Titan X, because I need real CUDA boost for video editing applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and photo editing in Lightroom and Photoshop, but somebody pointed out that I should wait for GTX 1080 instead.
All the benchmarks I was able to find so far were for gaming applications, which are not really relevant, as I have no plans on using this card for games at all.

So, is anybody able to give me some educated advice on how the new GTX 1080 may behave in photo and video editing applications vs. Titan X?

From the hardware specs perspective Titan has more CUDA cores, more memory and higher memory bus width, but I am not sure how is this going to translate in the real life performance.
Any ideas?

 

[Elixer]

Just wait for full reviews, and then make your purchase in a few weeks.
There are still lots of unknowns for the 1080/1070...

 

[h4rm0ny]

If it's costing you money / holding up work right now, I would probably take a mild gamble and get the TitanX as I doubt the difference will be large. If it's not holding you up / costing you money, I would wait two weeks because without independent reviews from the more tech-heavy sites, I don't think anyone can give you safe information. Unless somebody knows better...

 

[Timmah!]

Hi,

I was just about to upgrade from my Radeon 7970 to Titan X, because I need real CUDA boost for video editing applications like Adobe Premiere Pro and photo editing in Lightroom and Photoshop, but somebody pointed out that I should wait for GTX 1080 instead.
All the benchmarks I was able to find so far were for gaming applications, which are not really relevant, as I have no plans on using this card for games at all.

So, is anybody able to give me some educated advice on how the new GTX 1080 may behave in photo and video editing applications vs. Titan X?

From the hardware specs perspective Titan has more CUDA cores, more memory and higher memory bus width, but I am not sure how is this going to translate in the real life performance.
Any ideas?

Do wait for the 1080.

I dont know how demanding your apps/workflow is in regard to VRAM, but unless you dont really need those 12GB TitanX boasts and you can do just with 8GB the 1080 (were you ever VRAM limited by 7970?), then i suspect the 1080 is going to be somewhat faster, because of its higher clocks.

Obviously, you wont be sure until someone benchmarks the card exactly at apps you use.

 

[2blzd]

a 1080 will destroy premiere pro and lightroom.

Premiere Pro loves cuda cores and video ram. The 1080 might have less cuda cores then a 980 ti/titan, but they're much faster. Also 8GB of vram shall be lovely in premiere

 

[Headfoot]

If it's costing you money / holding up work right now, I would probably take a mild gamble and get the TitanX as I doubt the difference will be large. If it's not holding you up / costing you money, I would wait two weeks because without independent reviews from the more tech-heavy sites, I don't think anyone can give you safe information. Unless somebody knows better...

This is not good advice. Even if you were to buy today, don't flush money down the toilet by buying a Titan X when aftermarket 980 Ti is faster AND cheaper.

More so, you should definitely wait the 3 days it will be for the official launch of the 1080

 

[piowoc]

This is not good advice. Even if you were to buy today, don't flush money down the toilet by buying a Titan X when aftermarket 980 Ti is faster AND cheaper.

More so, you should definitely wait the 3 days it will be for the official launch of the 1080

Please take a look at the following pic with the comparison of OpenCL performance for the top GPUs, which I would be considering for a video editing workstation:
https://goo.gl/uuXJ5B

 

[Burpo]

GTX 1080 :thumbsup:

 

[Canbacon]

Looks like Tested posted some 1080 compute numbers.

http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/572353-testing-geforce-gtx-1080-compute-performance/

 

[Elixer]

Looks like Tested posted some 1080 compute numbers.

http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/572353-testing-geforce-gtx-1080-compute-performance/

Isn't that the mythbuster guy?

Video Processing: Video Composition

Kishonti describes this benchmark as "… replicating a typical video composition pipeline with effects such as pixelat, mask, mix, and blur".

Once again, it appears that the Radeon Fury Nano offers better execution efficiency, but the raw clock speed of the GTX 1080 makes up the difference. But the Nano even beats out the 12GB monster that is the Titan X.

 

[Dahak]

Isn't that the mythbuster guy?

Yes, he does some stuff with/for them. But different person that did the article. just in case some people only read the "Isn't that the mythbuster guy?" part

 

[piowoc]

Guys, what's your advice: should I buy GTX 1080 Founders Edition, or wait for the custom builds to show up? From what I read the custom editions may not be really a lot cheaper after all.

 

[Canbacon]

Guys, what's your advice: should I buy GTX 1080 Founders Edition, or wait for the custom builds to show up? From what I read the custom editions may not be really a lot cheaper after all.

It never hurts to wait if you are not on a tight deadline.