New day new GPU. This time from NVIDIA, the mothers of all GPUs. The Titan RTX has been released. A powerful graphic card that will help you edit faster, especially when 8K is your game. However, there is a price, and it’s not cheap. Explore more below.
RED and NVIDIA
Previously we reported about the partnership between RED and NVIDIA.
We explained why GPU is much more crucial than CPU when dealing with RAW footage and heavy media. You can read the article here. Now, there is a new card: The Titan RTX.
Titan RTX ($2,500)
A few days ago, NVIDIA revealed a new card, called Titan RTX. Without diving further into the tech and spec, we can tell you that this card is a bit lower in performance comparing to the Quadro, thus cheaper. Price: $2,500.
Click to enlarge the images below to explore the specs of the Titan:
8K accelerated editing and rendering
As stated in the press release: “TITAN RTX brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to creative applications…It also delivers the computational horsepower and memory bandwidth needed for real-time 8K video editing.”
TITAN RTX brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to creative applications…It also delivers the computational horsepower and memory bandwidth needed for real-time 8K video editing
No need to generate proxies
Of course this GPU allows the acceleration of many applications in the sections of science, simulation, medical, AI researching and deep learning development. Obviously, we focus on how this card can improve NLE workflow.
According to NVIDIA, the Titan RTX allows editors to:
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- Edit videos up to 8X faster than integrated graphics with the Adobe Premiere Pro CC NVIDIA CUDA-accelerated pipeline.
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- Work with 8K RAW files natively on the timeline without pre-caching or generating proxies.
- Create 360-degree videos with GPU-accelerated immersive editing in Adobe Premiere.
To sum it up, the Titan RTX’s specs which related to editing capabilities, are almost identical to the much more expensive Quadro RTX 6000, which costs nearly triple the price. So the price is not so bad. However, it’s not relevant for Macintosh users, since the card is for Windows only.
Final thoughts
If editing 8K is your bread and butter, and you need to deal with 8K RAW natively without proxies, you might want to have a look at the Titan, which is much cheaper than his big brother, the Quadro.
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No body need to work natively with 8k for 98% of the product workflow.
For the remaining 2% if your production studios as a client ready to pay for 8k contents the price of this Titan is really really really cheap.
For who think that this Titan is to expensive that means you don’t need one because you don’t get any jobs that have enough budget to payback one swiftly.
But what Nvidia say about movie production workflow is just laughable: no body that do a professional production at 8k resolution will use Adobe Premiere on his workflow.
I have 28 experience in movie productions and I personally don’t know any trustable production studios or great freeland editor that use Premiere in 2018 as NLE.
Common Nvidia don’t be silly