Macbook Pro 2018 2.9 560X vs EGPU Vega 64
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:08 am
I'm considering purchasing a Vega 64 and Razer Core enclosure to help speed up FCPX and Neatvideo, and wanted a view on ROI.
Running Neatbench on my machine elicits the following:
Detecting the best combination of performance settings:
running the test data set on up to 12 CPU cores and on up to 1 GPU
AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine: 4096 MB currently available, using up to 100%
CPU only (1 core): 2.05 frames/sec
CPU only (2 cores): 3.92 frames/sec
CPU only (3 cores): 5.65 frames/sec
CPU only (4 cores): 7.87 frames/sec
CPU only (5 cores): 9.43 frames/sec
CPU only (6 cores): 10.8 frames/sec
CPU only (7 cores): 8.13 frames/sec
CPU only (8 cores): 8.85 frames/sec
CPU only (9 cores): 8.93 frames/sec
CPU only (10 cores): 9.43 frames/sec
CPU only (11 cores): 8.85 frames/sec
CPU only (12 cores): 8.55 frames/sec
GPU only (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 5.05 frames/sec
CPU (1 core) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 4.41 frames/sec
CPU (2 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 5.35 frames/sec
CPU (3 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 6.8 frames/sec
CPU (4 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.01 frames/sec
CPU (5 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.35 frames/sec
CPU (6 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 8.55 frames/sec
CPU (7 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.9 frames/sec
CPU (8 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.8 frames/sec
CPU (9 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.6 frames/sec
CPU (10 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.2 frames/sec
CPU (11 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.1 frames/sec
CPU (12 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.35 frames/sec
Best combination: CPU (7 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine)
The 560X is 2056 Gflops, 4GB VRAM and 81 GB/s memory bandwidth.
I'm looking at Radeon RX Vega 64, with 10215 Gflops, 8GB HBM VRAM and 484 GB/s.
The blog page https://blog.neatvideo.com/post/gpu-for-noise-reduction shows that under Mac such a card would only achieve 11.6 frames/second, which doesn't feel right when comparing specs to the inbuilt 560X.
2 questions:
1) Would I see a reasonable increase from the use of a Vega 64 in an EGPU configuration (i.e. slight loss of bandwidth compared to native PCI)
2) Would NeatVideo use both the internal 560X and EGPU to increase processing speed?
Thanks,
David.
Running Neatbench on my machine elicits the following:
Detecting the best combination of performance settings:
running the test data set on up to 12 CPU cores and on up to 1 GPU
AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine: 4096 MB currently available, using up to 100%
CPU only (1 core): 2.05 frames/sec
CPU only (2 cores): 3.92 frames/sec
CPU only (3 cores): 5.65 frames/sec
CPU only (4 cores): 7.87 frames/sec
CPU only (5 cores): 9.43 frames/sec
CPU only (6 cores): 10.8 frames/sec
CPU only (7 cores): 8.13 frames/sec
CPU only (8 cores): 8.85 frames/sec
CPU only (9 cores): 8.93 frames/sec
CPU only (10 cores): 9.43 frames/sec
CPU only (11 cores): 8.85 frames/sec
CPU only (12 cores): 8.55 frames/sec
GPU only (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 5.05 frames/sec
CPU (1 core) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 4.41 frames/sec
CPU (2 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 5.35 frames/sec
CPU (3 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 6.8 frames/sec
CPU (4 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.01 frames/sec
CPU (5 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.35 frames/sec
CPU (6 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 8.55 frames/sec
CPU (7 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.9 frames/sec
CPU (8 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.8 frames/sec
CPU (9 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.6 frames/sec
CPU (10 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.2 frames/sec
CPU (11 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 10.1 frames/sec
CPU (12 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine): 9.35 frames/sec
Best combination: CPU (7 cores) and GPU (AMD Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine)
The 560X is 2056 Gflops, 4GB VRAM and 81 GB/s memory bandwidth.
I'm looking at Radeon RX Vega 64, with 10215 Gflops, 8GB HBM VRAM and 484 GB/s.
The blog page https://blog.neatvideo.com/post/gpu-for-noise-reduction shows that under Mac such a card would only achieve 11.6 frames/second, which doesn't feel right when comparing specs to the inbuilt 560X.
2 questions:
1) Would I see a reasonable increase from the use of a Vega 64 in an EGPU configuration (i.e. slight loss of bandwidth compared to native PCI)
2) Would NeatVideo use both the internal 560X and EGPU to increase processing speed?
Thanks,
David.