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Core i7 Extreme Edition $1600 2TB 960 Pro NVMe drive $1300 2 GTX Titan XPPs We got $2400 You add 128GB of RAM As well as a top of the line motherboard and uh Yeah That'll be $6800 please Now To be clear I'm not complaining This is a spectacularly first world problem But Pro video production gear is on a whole freaking other level Let me put it in perspective This one PCI Express card costs as much as all that stuff I just listed combined All of it This is the Red Rocket X A state of the art creation tool And simultaneously a relic of a bygone era A $7000 Co-processor card Welcome to holy sh** Intro Cooler Master's 25th anniversary edition Cosmos 2 Features a unique dual curved tempered glass side panel Check it out now at the link below Okay so as many of you are probably aware We moved to Red Digital Cinema cameras earlier this year in an effort to bump up our production values And I mean let's be honest we're enthusiasts Give Brandon and Max some new toys to play with But have you ever actually tried to work with Red Code RAW footage before? As Taryn would put it It's a nightmare At full 8K on a 10 core extreme edition processor with a $5000 Nvidia Quadro P6000 graphics card This is what timeline performance looks like You see those delays as I'm scrubbing around And even straight playback performance is abominable It's not like it's our 10 gigabit network connection bottlenecking us either We're nowhere near saturating it No It's the CPU Even though we're scaling across all 20 of our threads We are still running out of processing power And we haven't even added any Lumetri color yet either That's only going to make matters worse Throw that into the picture and now we are dropping about 90% of our frames While dealing with a quarter to a third of a second delay When we're trying to move the playhead around on the timeline Ridiculous And both our CPU and GPU are basically maxed You actually need to drop your preview quality all the way down to 1 eighth In order to get what I would consider to be acceptable performance with much lower usage True to form though Red Digital Cinema has a solution for you Are you unhappy with your editing experience of the footage from your $50,000 camera? Buy this expansion card to accelerate it Available now for 7,000 easy payments of only $1 Call now and we'll throw in this nothing Absolutely free because we're red and f***ing your wallet is more than just our job It's our passion But what is this thing? What does it even do? Well we can figure out a little bit on our own So there's some kind of processor here that's under 150 watts of total power consumption Based on the single slot cooler and the single 6 pin power connector back here There's some memory on board so we can see those chips arranged around the chip here And the dual display port ports are so it can actually function as a video output device Though our workload necessitates a powerful GPU anyway so we won't be using it that way And the main purpose of this thing anyway is to accelerate decoding, scaling and debayering of our 3D files The first two I think are fairly self-explanatory But the last one is the process of reconstructing a full color image from incomplete color samples That are captured by the sensor in a raw recording format But they give us no actual details about the hardware Other than some nebulous 5x performance claim relative to their own first generation red rocket But why would this older chip based on older process node technology Compared to a GPU running CUDA be better at any of that stuff? I mean RED even supports CUDA acceleration in their own Cinex desktop application Is this thing even relevant today? So with it installed we throw on the latest drivers and... I don't know it's kind of weird There's no configuration utility or anything like that But if you go into device manager it's working properly and everything seems fine So all that's left to do then is go into our video editing software and press enable So this is the same project that we were just looking at And we're going to change this use rocket dropdown to all available At full quality my CPU is still pinned And now I'm seeing 90% GPU usage even with Lumetri color disabled What? Okay well now hold on just a minute here Surely there must be something wrong Let's try disabling the rocket Just to see if we can get back to where we started Now hold on this doesn't make sense either With it disabled our timeline scrubbing looks better than ever Our CPU usage is way down and even our GPU usage is under control now But we are still dropping some frames far fewer though Well Red only advertises the Rocket X as being capable of handling up to 6K footage So maybe what we're looking at here makes sense if somehow it's enabled Dropping then down to half quality in the preview window yields perfect playback without Lumetri color Let's check that out Okay and... Alright turning it on well it looks like we are still dropping some frames in that case But that's probably caused then by a GPU bottleneck Because you can see our Quadro is sitting at around 80 to 85% usage So then finally as a last step we drop down to one quarter quality And that's looking great Acceptable CPU and GPU usage and a much nicer looking timeline Than what we were able to achieve without the Red Rocket X But in a lot of ways this actually raises a lot more questions than it answers Why would disabling our add-in card give me the best possible editing experience? Is it just a snake oil hardware key to run an improved GPU acceleration algorithm? So I actually spent a couple of weeks investigating this Because timeline performance has genuinely been an issue for us But investing in one of these for each of our editors would be a whopping $35,000 total And here's what I found First some backup for what we already knew Without the Red Rocket X, Red Code RAW footage loves CPU cores Knocking my Extreme Edition down to 6 cores, yielded dropped frames, even at only one quarter quality But more cores only carries you so far A 22-core Xeon like this costs more, significantly slashes single-core performance And doesn't even approach the performance improvement from the Rocket X installed but disabled in Premiere So then, the ideal 8K video editing configuration is a 10-core with a Quadro and a Red Rocket X disabled, right? Maybe not Is the Quadro at over four times the price really accelerating this process any better than a high-end GeForce card would? We'll be moving to an HDR workflow sometime in Q4, expect an update on that So we need 10-bit color over DisplayPort, a traditional Quadro feature But that was actually added to GeForce a while back And the results here are fascinating Our Titan X Pascal, despite its nearly identical on-paper specs to our Quadro P6000 Is able to use its sky-high, nearly 1800 MHz boost clocks to reduce GPU usage, lower our dropped frames And even drop CPU usage a little bit at our target one-quarter playback quality It even almost managed to pull off half playback quality Both GPUs, by the way, were run with their power sliders cranked and power saving mode disabled So then, having finished running all of these numbers, I came to the same conclusion that Red Support did get back and give me Premiere is just being Premiere, disabled is enabled, and enabled is borked And as for an optimal workstation configuration, well it turns out the Rocket X does do something for users with 8K footage Even though it's not rated for it, but for the difference that it provides, I'm not going to invest that much Just to get a bump in preview quality Do you ever find yourself thinking about the privacy of your information when you're making purchases online? 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