Tonex Capture Times for non-Nvidia GPU

[jhaas]

Hey IK-peeps, can you tell us if there is anything in the backlog for improving capture performance on non-Nvidia GPUs, or is this just not in the cards?

I plan to do lots of captures, but I am a cheap hobbyist and can't justify shelling out $400+ on a new video card for this. I'm looking at downgrading from my Radeon to a used GTX770, which is in my budget, but just seems wrong.

The IK site says "NVIDIA GPU with Maxwell or newer architecture is recommended to reduce training times (eg. GeForce GT 750 or higher)"
If any users in here have capture time numbers for something in the 750/770 range, please share.

[Peter_IK]

Have you tried with what you have? An Nvidia GPU is not required, it can just help with the capture. You might get results better than you expected without an Nvidia GPU. If you need deeper technical assistance/info, the IK Support team woul dbe happy to assist.

[jhaas]

Have you tried with what you have? An Nvidia GPU is not required, it can just help with the capture. You might get results better than you expected without an Nvidia GPU. If you need deeper technical assistance/info, the IK Support team woul dbe happy to assist.

Yes, I'm getting capture times of slightly over one hour for a Default level capture an slightly over 8 hours for an Advanced capture.

I'm also running an AMD CPU, not an Intel as IK recommends.

[ETLayman]

Hey IK-peeps, can you tell us if there is anything in the backlog for improving capture performance on non-Nvidia GPUs, or is this just not in the cards?

I plan to do lots of captures, but I am a cheap hobbyist and can't justify shelling out $400+ on a new video card for this. I'm looking at downgrading from my Radeon to a used GTX770, which is in my budget, but just seems wrong.

The IK site says "NVIDIA GPU with Maxwell or newer architecture is recommended to reduce training times (eg. GeForce GT 750 or higher)"
If any users in here have capture time numbers for something in the 750/770 range, please share.

I have the same situation and the same question. Will a cheap Nvidia be better than a higher-end Radeon? Or do you really need to shell out for a high-end Nvidia card to get those training times down?

[jhaas]

I have the same situation and the same question. Will a cheap Nvidia be better than a higher-end Radeon? Or do you really need to shell out for a high-end Nvidia card to get those training times down?

In the comments of https://youtu.be/mRyOEXRErtU, someone states:

I have a gtx1070 and my advanced captures are under 30min.

but that's the only specific numbers I've seen.

[DarkStar]

^^^^
Perhaps users can post their CPU / GPU / memory specs / capture times for advanced captures, for comparison.

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Which reminds me of a process performance test we were running many years ago. The chief tester asked his colleague to start the test, clicked his stop- watch and just muttered "Tuesday"

[jhaas]

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OS: Win10
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x 
RAM: 32GB
GPU:  Radeon RX 570
Default Capture: 1 Hour
Advanced Capture: 8 Hours


[ETLayman]

I have the same situation and the same question. Will a cheap Nvidia be better than a higher-end Radeon? Or do you really need to shell out for a high-end Nvidia card to get those training times down?

In the comments of https://youtu.be/mRyOEXRErtU, someone states:

I have a gtx1070 and my advanced captures are under 30min.

but that's the only specific numbers I've seen.

Those 1070 cards are still not particularly cheap. A used one on Newegg still costs 250.00-ish. I have a gaming laptop with a mobile version of the GTX 1000 series. I'll have to try using that.

Worst case, I am still satisfied with the results I got with my Radeon card, and I don't figure to be making tons and tons of captures. It's just a "let it run overnight" situation.

[Peter_IK]

I will try to capture some Tone Models on my 2080 (non-ti version) when I can. I should be able to at least capture a stomp or two, I have AXE I/O connected to that gaming machine anyway.

[dean.winter]

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OS: Win10
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x 
RAM: 32GB
GPU:  Radeon RX 570
Default Capture: 1 Hour
Advanced Capture: 8 Hours


Whoa...that seems like a SUPER long time. I don't have a particularly fast machine and here's mine for comparison:

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OS: Win10
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3400 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
RAM: 32GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Advanced Capture: ~55 Minutes
Default Capture: Not sure...never actually tried.


Hope that helps get it sorted.

Dean

[drewfx1]

I'm assuming it's using Nvidia's CUDA technology for parallel processing on the graphics card.

If so, we'd probably need some really technical information to be able to determine which Nvidea cards represent good value as it doesn't look like a simple evaluation given different versions of CUDA, different numbers of CUDA cores running at different clock speeds, etc. But I only have a high level understanding of CUDA processing - I know it's a thing, but I know virtually nothing of the nitty gritty technical details for different types of (co)processing.

[spikey]

I'm running an AMD Radeon Pro 5700 8 GB in my 2020 iMac I7 running Monterey OS, 64 gigs ram, and on my 1st advanced capture, I timed it as about 30 minutes... I consider that very acceptable at this point, and I have not tried normal capture yet.

[caravansun]

Win 10
Intel I5 -4690 (5-6 years old)
Geforce GTX 1650 GPU (new)

My default training is under 5 mins.
Advance is usually 15-20.

I had an old Nvidia card in this system and my Fast training was 25 mins, I updated to the GTX and my results made a huge improvements.

[ETLayman]

Win 10
Intel I5 -4690 (5-6 years old)
Geforce GTX 1650 GPU (new)

My default training is under 5 mins.
Advance is usually 15-20.

I had an old Nvidia card in this system and my Fast training was 25 mins, I updated to the GTX and my results made a huge improvements.

This is good to know. Gives a pretty good idea of how the older or cheaper cards will perform. Thanks!

[ZappaMontana10]

Hi,

These are my specs and model training times:

Win 11
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core 3.80 GHz Processor
RAM 32 GB
Geforce GTX 1660 Super

Default Model Training: 6 minutes
Advance Model Training: 50 minutes

NVidea has two driver/controller options, Studio Driver and Game Ready Driver. I have NVidea Studio driver installed and my times are the aboce indicated. Eventually I will install the other driver and test it.

Does anybody know if changing drivers could result in better performance?