The Performance Boost from NVIDIA GPU with Adobe Creative Cloud

I've been using my laptop to edit and color grade videos with Adobe Premiere Pro, but I was disappointed with the performance boost it provided compared to when I used just the laptop by itself. To be honest, I was getting double what I'm getting from just using the laptop by itself so there's a noticeable performance boost there now. However, I would like to see a higher performance boost from functions like batch export and even the preneur ammok stitching. There is a slight boost but not a huge difference between the scenarios of the laptop versus the eGPU.

Now that being said the times are still acceptable on both platforms so it's really not that bad. Stitching 650 mega pixel files in a panorama took about 40 seconds on both platforms so it's really not that bad now using Premiere you're gonna see a vast improvement in basic performance and one of the issues with Adobe Premiere can be what you're doing on the timeline and with premiere it really doesn't take much. I literally moved away from using Premiere last year because of the general performance time it was such a beat down and adding things like a lot to the footage and maybe just a layer of text would just bog down real-time playback to the point where for me it really wasn't worth it to use and it just slowed everything down.

Adding a GPU with the Nvidia r-tx 20 atti brings back real time performance with just about anything native that you're gonna throw at the Edit. This is pretty amazing now there are some third-party plugins that might not make use of the external card but that's a small trade-off because it still adds to a reasonable performance without the need to constantly be rendering the timeline. You might have to render it on some parts also interesting is where you export from Adobe Premiere to Adobe a media encoder and this becomes really interesting.

So I took a five-minute clip of some basic edits and I wanted to watch the render times and on the laptop by itself the clip took about five minutes to render to an h.264 or 4k clip and this is about real time and this is not bad at all but with the eGPU it did it in almost half of the time at about two minutes and forty seconds now multiply this to a much longer video and you're looking at not only better performance but about half the render time which is considerable especially when you get into something that's maybe more like 30 minutes or an hour in length.

The most impressive boost by far in any of the Adobe suite was in After Effects. I had a template for an exploding logo of that well love it or hate it it's about eight seconds in length which is really short but it's very demanding in the application with a laptop alone this eight second clip took about two minutes and ten seconds to render it's a pretty long time now with the eGPU it only took thirty four seconds and this was really impressive.

Understanding GPU with creative applications comes down to your expectations and the performance of what you're using and it's really difficult I think to measure this is a benchmark. Also interesting is that as I'm releasing this video NVIDIA has announced their new r-tx studio laptops these new laptops are designed for creative work and are boasting some serious specs. The new studio drivers have been tested extensively with applications by Adobe epic Autodesk unity and Blackmagic Design specifically with creative workflows in mind time is money and we have a complex set of tools at our disposal but the right combination of these is not only going to give us a faster results but much less headache in the end.

A couple important points that I want to make about an a GPU setup like this now first of all the r-tx 20 atti is extremely impressive as you can see here I'm nearly doubling the performance and speed of this laptop and I'm really impressed and feel real good about the way this is set up. It did what I wanted to do that being said this was designed to go into a desktop and if you use it in a desktop you're gonna get even more power and performance out of this and there's a number of reasons why just alone the fact that I can throw more memory at the computer I'm capped out at 32 gigabytes here you're using native PCIe there's a number of reasons why you can expect this to perform even better so that's starting to beg the question well why would I go to the trouble to set this up well the answer is performance flexibility and most importantly mobility and the fact that I can take the laptop unplug it go on the road and I can do my editing I can do color grading I can work with still photos and I can come back to the studio when I need the power for like a batch render or something like that or if I'm putting out a bunch of different video files and I can take advantage of a more robust machine without having to change Computers move files around so it just gives me a lot of flexibility and what I'm able to do with a fairly portable setup love to know what you guys think about this setup.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everybody in this video I want to talk about performance and how that relates to the future of photography and video production and quite frankly where we are now with things so I want to share this with you this is what we call a GPU this is the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2080 ti the GPU lives in your computer and it handles all of the graphics processing so for instance you're watching this video right now you have some kind of GPU that is making that possible the r-tx 2080 TI is a very powerful GPU this one is built to live in a desktop and I want to talk about why this relates to what we're dealing with today in photography so even for still photography over the last couple years we have found ourselves in the middle of the mega pixel race once again and so today we have medium format cameras for example that will produce images that are 50 mega pixels or a hundred mega pixels the phase 1 IQ for does 150 mega pixels if you've ever worked with really high resolution images you know this requires a great deal of processing power the other side of this equation are applications that we as creatives use on a daily basis things like Photoshop Lightroom Premiere After Effects and you may have experienced before depending on the type of computer that you have that sometimes these applications run fairly sluggishly if you're doing graphic intensive tasks such as like maybe cupping the edits that you did on one image in Lightroom and pasting it across many in your library you know that that takes a long time exports take a long time even for video I remember a couple years ago when I moved everything over to using a 4k workflow the first thing that I noticed is there was a huge difference in terms of processing power how my applications responded and in particular export times from when I worked in 1080p before in fact I know several YouTube creators today that have moved back to 1080p just because the 4k workflow is such a pain to deal with so full disclosure this video is sponsored by Nvidia and when they reached out to me and said we won't sponsor video I had a really specific idea in mind for a project that I wanted to do now if you watch my videos over the last year you've seen me do a lot of videos just experimenting with the idea of mobility and photography and video and what my setup is and how I can get the most power out of something that is very mobile because I travel about half the year and has spent a lot of time in airplanes and hotels and I need to be able to work I have downtime which means processing images editing and rendering video so and so forth so what I wanted to do was experiment with this whole idea of using a really powerful GPU like this and running it externally from a laptop you hears people call this AG GPU setup and this has been popular in the gaming community for a number of years now and I haven't seen many people in the creative community work with a setup like this and so I wanted to try it for myself and I'll show you how we're going to do this basically what we're going to do is use an enclosure I'm going to be able to use a really powerful GPU like the r-tx 20 atti which is designed clearly to go into a large desktop we're gonna put this into an enclosure and use the Thunderbolt 3 port off of a laptop to basically use this as the PCIe let me show you how this is set up it's probably make a lot more sense the first thing we're gonna need in this setup is an enclosure box this one is made by Razer this is the Razer core X they can vary in price depending on what kind of features this one's a little bit more bare-bones but if you want USB C ports or something like that you can spend more money and get those I'm just trying to get the job done here and this one works great and the way this works is I just pull out this front panel here and you can see there is a slot where we are going to mount the GPU card and so we're basically going to get this in pop it into place it is held further secured by this one pin here all I do is slide the enclosure back in pop the handle back into place and we're secure and ready to rock the next thing you're gonna need is a laptop now we're gonna connect the external GPU using Thunderbolt 3 so you do need a Thunderbolt 3 port and you want to make sure that it supports 4 lanes instead of just 2 because the more throughput that we have the better this is a Dell XPS 95 70 it has an i7 chip you could probably do this with an i5 but again the more up-to-date that you have your system the better processing that you're going to have I also have this maxed out at 32 gigabytes of RAM and it's super simple we're just going to connect to the Thunderbolt 3 port with the cable that was included with the Razer core X and we're about ready to go and the last thing we're gonna do is hook up an external monitor now I'm gonna hook this up via HDMI and we're going to go into the HDMI port that is actually on the r-tx 20 atti and this is kind of an optional step but I do recommend it for getting the most performance because we're going to be outputting to an external monitor we don't have to route things back to the laptop so with everything in place you're going to go ahead and power up and the first time you do this it's probably going to have to find some drivers I would also come in you head over to Nvidia's website and make sure everything's up to date and from there it's pretty much plug-and-play I want to preface this part by noting that this is not a benchmark test people typically do that to measure performance for gaming applications but what we're looking at here is something completely different so the use case that I'm looking at in this video is creative application and this includes photo and video editing as well as motion graphics and this is where the e GPU really shines so you get the portability of using a laptop and the ability to plug into the GPU and use it as a full studio application now one other note that I want to make here is that this is a basic 1080p monitor that I'm using but because we've assigned the graphics rendering to the external card we could easily hook up a large 4k monitor and have a pretty amazing studio display for working off of a laptop by using the C GPU Adobe has the tendency to get a little sluggish you probably noticed as soon as you start to load the system and this could be a large library of photographs we could be bulk application of edits for my testing in Lightroom I imported a set of 50 megapixel images that I took with the hustle blot x1d and the performance and functionality when you start zooming in zooming out of these and the rendering is about double what I'm getting from just using the laptop by itself so there's a noticeable performance boost there now I would like to see a higher performance boost from functions like batch export and even the preneur ammok stitching there is a slight boost but not a huge difference between the scenarios of the laptop versus the e GPU now that being said the times are still acceptable on both now stitching 650 mega pixel files in a panorama took about 40 seconds on both platforms so it's really not that bad now using premiere you're gonna see a vast improvement in basic performance and one of the issues with Adobe Premiere can be what you're doing on the timeline and with premiere it really doesn't take much I literally moved away from using Premiere last year because of the general performance time it was such a beat down and adding things like a lot to the footage and maybe just a layer of text would just bog down real-time playback to the point where for me it really wasn't worth it to use and it just slowed everything down now adding a GPU with the Nvidia r-tx 20 atti brings back real time perform with just about anything native that you're gonna throw at the Edit this is pretty amazing now there are some third-party plugins that might not make use of the external card but that's a small trade-off because it still adds to a reasonable performance without the need to constantly be rendering the timeline you might have to render it on some parts also interesting is where you export from Adobe Premiere to Adobe a media encoder and this becomes really interesting so I took a five-minute clip of some basic edits and I wanted to watch the render times and on the laptop by itself the clip took about five minutes to render to an h.264 or 4k clip and this is about real time and this is not bad at all but with the e GPU it did it in almost half of the time at about two minutes and forty seconds now multiply this to a much longer video and you're looking at not only better performance but about half the render time which is considerable especially when you get into something that's maybe more like 30 minutes or an hour in length now the most impressive boost by far in any of the Adobe suite was in After Effects and I had a template for an exploding logo of that well love it or hate it it's about eight seconds in length which is really short but it's very demanding in the application with a laptop alone this eight second clip took about two minutes and ten seconds to render it's a pretty long time now with the e GPU it only took thirty four seconds and this was really impressive so understanding GPU with creative applications comes down to your expectations and the performance of what you're using and it's really difficult I think to measure this is a benchmark also interesting is that as I'm releasing this video NVIDIA has announced their new r-tx studio laptops these new laptops are designed for creative work and are boasting some serious specs the new studio drivers have been tested extensively with applications by Adobe epic Autodesk unity and Blackmagic Design specifically with creative workflows in mind time is money and we have a complex set of tools at our disposal but the right combination of these is not only going to give us a faster results but much less headache in the end so a couple important points that I want to make about an a GPU set up like this now first of all the r-tx 20 atti is extremely impressive as you can see here I'm nearly doubling the performance and speed of this laptop and I'm really impressed and feel real good about the way this is set up it did what I wanted to do that being said this was designed to go into a desktop and if you use it in a desktop you're gonna get even more power and performance out of this and there's a number of reasons why just alone the fact that I can throw more memory at the computer I'm capped out at 32 gigabytes here you're using native PCIe there's a number of reasons why you can expect this to perform even better so that's starting to beg the question well why would I go to the trouble to set this up well the answer is performance flexibility and most importantly mobility and the fact that I can take the laptop unplug it go on the road and I can do my editing I can do color grading I can work with still photos and I can come back to the studio when I need the power for like a batch render or something like that or if I'm putting out a bunch of different video files and I can take advantage of a more robust machine without having to change Computers move files around so it just gives me a lot of flexibility and what I'm able to do with a fairly portable setup love to know what you guys think leave me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then laterwelcome back everybody in this video I want to talk about performance and how that relates to the future of photography and video production and quite frankly where we are now with things so I want to share this with you this is what we call a GPU this is the NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2080 ti the GPU lives in your computer and it handles all of the graphics processing so for instance you're watching this video right now you have some kind of GPU that is making that possible the r-tx 2080 TI is a very powerful GPU this one is built to live in a desktop and I want to talk about why this relates to what we're dealing with today in photography so even for still photography over the last couple years we have found ourselves in the middle of the mega pixel race once again and so today we have medium format cameras for example that will produce images that are 50 mega pixels or a hundred mega pixels the phase 1 IQ for does 150 mega pixels if you've ever worked with really high resolution images you know this requires a great deal of processing power the other side of this equation are applications that we as creatives use on a daily basis things like Photoshop Lightroom Premiere After Effects and you may have experienced before depending on the type of computer that you have that sometimes these applications run fairly sluggishly if you're doing graphic intensive tasks such as like maybe cupping the edits that you did on one image in Lightroom and pasting it across many in your library you know that that takes a long time exports take a long time even for video I remember a couple years ago when I moved everything over to using a 4k workflow the first thing that I noticed is there was a huge difference in terms of processing power how my applications responded and in particular export times from when I worked in 1080p before in fact I know several YouTube creators today that have moved back to 1080p just because the 4k workflow is such a pain to deal with so full disclosure this video is sponsored by Nvidia and when they reached out to me and said we won't sponsor video I had a really specific idea in mind for a project that I wanted to do now if you watch my videos over the last year you've seen me do a lot of videos just experimenting with the idea of mobility and photography and video and what my setup is and how I can get the most power out of something that is very mobile because I travel about half the year and has spent a lot of time in airplanes and hotels and I need to be able to work I have downtime which means processing images editing and rendering video so and so forth so what I wanted to do was experiment with this whole idea of using a really powerful GPU like this and running it externally from a laptop you hears people call this AG GPU setup and this has been popular in the gaming community for a number of years now and I haven't seen many people in the creative community work with a setup like this and so I wanted to try it for myself and I'll show you how we're going to do this basically what we're going to do is use an enclosure I'm going to be able to use a really powerful GPU like the r-tx 20 atti which is designed clearly to go into a large desktop we're gonna put this into an enclosure and use the Thunderbolt 3 port off of a laptop to basically use this as the PCIe let me show you how this is set up it's probably make a lot more sense the first thing we're gonna need in this setup is an enclosure box this one is made by Razer this is the Razer core X they can vary in price depending on what kind of features this one's a little bit more bare-bones but if you want USB C ports or something like that you can spend more money and get those I'm just trying to get the job done here and this one works great and the way this works is I just pull out this front panel here and you can see there is a slot where we are going to mount the GPU card and so we're basically going to get this in pop it into place it is held further secured by this one pin here all I do is slide the enclosure back in pop the handle back into place and we're secure and ready to rock the next thing you're gonna need is a laptop now we're gonna connect the external GPU using Thunderbolt 3 so you do need a Thunderbolt 3 port and you want to make sure that it supports 4 lanes instead of just 2 because the more throughput that we have the better this is a Dell XPS 95 70 it has an i7 chip you could probably do this with an i5 but again the more up-to-date that you have your system the better processing that you're going to have I also have this maxed out at 32 gigabytes of RAM and it's super simple we're just going to connect to the Thunderbolt 3 port with the cable that was included with the Razer core X and we're about ready to go and the last thing we're gonna do is hook up an external monitor now I'm gonna hook this up via HDMI and we're going to go into the HDMI port that is actually on the r-tx 20 atti and this is kind of an optional step but I do recommend it for getting the most performance because we're going to be outputting to an external monitor we don't have to route things back to the laptop so with everything in place you're going to go ahead and power up and the first time you do this it's probably going to have to find some drivers I would also come in you head over to Nvidia's website and make sure everything's up to date and from there it's pretty much plug-and-play I want to preface this part by noting that this is not a benchmark test people typically do that to measure performance for gaming applications but what we're looking at here is something completely different so the use case that I'm looking at in this video is creative application and this includes photo and video editing as well as motion graphics and this is where the e GPU really shines so you get the portability of using a laptop and the ability to plug into the GPU and use it as a full studio application now one other note that I want to make here is that this is a basic 1080p monitor that I'm using but because we've assigned the graphics rendering to the external card we could easily hook up a large 4k monitor and have a pretty amazing studio display for working off of a laptop by using the C GPU Adobe has the tendency to get a little sluggish you probably noticed as soon as you start to load the system and this could be a large library of photographs we could be bulk application of edits for my testing in Lightroom I imported a set of 50 megapixel images that I took with the hustle blot x1d and the performance and functionality when you start zooming in zooming out of these and the rendering is about double what I'm getting from just using the laptop by itself so there's a noticeable performance boost there now I would like to see a higher performance boost from functions like batch export and even the preneur ammok stitching there is a slight boost but not a huge difference between the scenarios of the laptop versus the e GPU now that being said the times are still acceptable on both now stitching 650 mega pixel files in a panorama took about 40 seconds on both platforms so it's really not that bad now using premiere you're gonna see a vast improvement in basic performance and one of the issues with Adobe Premiere can be what you're doing on the timeline and with premiere it really doesn't take much I literally moved away from using Premiere last year because of the general performance time it was such a beat down and adding things like a lot to the footage and maybe just a layer of text would just bog down real-time playback to the point where for me it really wasn't worth it to use and it just slowed everything down now adding a GPU with the Nvidia r-tx 20 atti brings back real time perform with just about anything native that you're gonna throw at the Edit this is pretty amazing now there are some third-party plugins that might not make use of the external card but that's a small trade-off because it still adds to a reasonable performance without the need to constantly be rendering the timeline you might have to render it on some parts also interesting is where you export from Adobe Premiere to Adobe a media encoder and this becomes really interesting so I took a five-minute clip of some basic edits and I wanted to watch the render times and on the laptop by itself the clip took about five minutes to render to an h.264 or 4k clip and this is about real time and this is not bad at all but with the e GPU it did it in almost half of the time at about two minutes and forty seconds now multiply this to a much longer video and you're looking at not only better performance but about half the render time which is considerable especially when you get into something that's maybe more like 30 minutes or an hour in length now the most impressive boost by far in any of the Adobe suite was in After Effects and I had a template for an exploding logo of that well love it or hate it it's about eight seconds in length which is really short but it's very demanding in the application with a laptop alone this eight second clip took about two minutes and ten seconds to render it's a pretty long time now with the e GPU it only took thirty four seconds and this was really impressive so understanding GPU with creative applications comes down to your expectations and the performance of what you're using and it's really difficult I think to measure this is a benchmark also interesting is that as I'm releasing this video NVIDIA has announced their new r-tx studio laptops these new laptops are designed for creative work and are boasting some serious specs the new studio drivers have been tested extensively with applications by Adobe epic Autodesk unity and Blackmagic Design specifically with creative workflows in mind time is money and we have a complex set of tools at our disposal but the right combination of these is not only going to give us a faster results but much less headache in the end so a couple important points that I want to make about an a GPU set up like this now first of all the r-tx 20 atti is extremely impressive as you can see here I'm nearly doubling the performance and speed of this laptop and I'm really impressed and feel real good about the way this is set up it did what I wanted to do that being said this was designed to go into a desktop and if you use it in a desktop you're gonna get even more power and performance out of this and there's a number of reasons why just alone the fact that I can throw more memory at the computer I'm capped out at 32 gigabytes here you're using native PCIe there's a number of reasons why you can expect this to perform even better so that's starting to beg the question well why would I go to the trouble to set this up well the answer is performance flexibility and most importantly mobility and the fact that I can take the laptop unplug it go on the road and I can do my editing I can do color grading I can work with still photos and I can come back to the studio when I need the power for like a batch render or something like that or if I'm putting out a bunch of different video files and I can take advantage of a more robust machine without having to change Computers move files around so it just gives me a lot of flexibility and what I'm able to do with a fairly portable setup love to know what you guys think leave me a comment below I'll see you guys in the next video until then later\n"