AMD FirePro W9100 vs NVIDIA Quadro K6000
PTC Creo, Sony Vegas Pro 13
That's the end of our 3D rendering and CAD/CAM tests -- let's turn to multimedia encoding and 3D acceleration in Adobe products instead. AMD scored a major coup by winning Apple's Mac Pro and Adobe has patched some of its Creative Cloud applications in recent months to reflect that -- we tested Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Sony's Vegas Pro 13. We intended to also include results from Adobe After Effects, but that application doesn't support OpenCL yet -- not even with its latest updates.
Sony Vegas Pro 13:
Sony's Vegas Pro is the company's software package for non-linear editing (NLE). We tested it using a project that Sony initially distributed for benchmark and testing purposes back in 2011. We encoded that project in three different formats, all of which were capable of using the GPU -- a MainConcept AVC codec, XDCAM-EX, and a Sony XAVC codec. All three formats were encoded in 1080p at default detail levels and project settings.
Yeah, we're not sure about that one either, but again, the numbers held up on re-test. Add up all three times in this test, and the W9000 wins with a 3:25 render time, followed by the Q6000 (3:38), the W9100 (3:47) and the K6000 (4:17).