Vouk's Render Perfomance Test

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    I hacked a little tool / plugin together to find out how fast premiere could actually render frames without anything interfering. This is tool is as small as possible and just renders video frames and throws them away again. No file output, no export, no nothing. It tests the premiere part only!

    In the end you'll get a little popup telling you the theoretical max. frames per second that premiere is able to deliver for the loaded project / sequence:

    (Considering that I am getting like 430 fps with nvenc h264 this is really not bad!)

    Discuss the tool and your results here: Vouk's Render Performance Test

    With this tool you can also find out if h264 hardware (iGPU) or software decoding is faster on your system. Or is it faster to use the mercury engine, or not? Feel free to test and share your results on twitter.

    Please note I am "abusing" the error message functionality at this point to display the results. There is no rendering error. It is just a handy mechanism to display the results right now.

    Sadly, the thread for results posting gives me an "Access denied. You’re not authorized to view this page." message, so, I hope that's okay if I post it here.

    Previously I thought that my ancient 11-year old laptop was completely useless in terms of video editing. And it still might be so. What I recently learned and what really surprised me is that even a GeForce 310M with 512MB of DDR3 memory can significantly speed up the rendering of GPU-accelerated effects. So, looks like it is often worth enabling CUDA in Premiere Pro's project settings even with such an underpowered GPU with only 16 CUDA cores (even GTX 1050 Ti, which isn't considered to be a fast GPU by today's standards, has 768 CUDA cores).

    Timeline with a single 60-second long 720p 30fps x264 video with multiple heavy GPU-accelerated effects applied to it - CUDA - 96 seconds / 18 fps

    Timeline with a single 60-second long 720p 30fps x264 video with multiple heavy GPU-accelerated effects applied to it - SOFTWARE ONLY - 388 seconds / 4 fps


    Timeline with a single 60-socond long 720p 30fps x264 video with a single GPU-accelerated effect applied to it - CUDA - 41 secons / 43 fps


    Timeline with a single 60-second long 720p 30fps x264 video with a single GPU-accelerated effect applied to it - SOFTWARE ONLY - 99 seconds / 18 fps


    imeline with a single 60-second long 720p 30fps x264 video without any effect applied to it - CUDA - 7 seconds / 238 fps


    Timeline with a single 60-second long 720p 30fps x264 video without any effect applied to it - SOFTWARE ONLY - 7 seconds / 234 fps