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[mango drank]

Or do they mostly sit idle while you're not gaming?

I do some 3D modeling occasionally, so my twin GPUs are used as renderers. I also do occasional video editing, but I don't think the editing apps make much use of the GPUs, as much as they do CPU.

Anyone donating GPU cycles to distributed grid computing things (SETI@home etc)? Anyone doing AI / ML model training? Anyone still mining crypto with their GPUs?

 

[mango drank]

Well ... the absence of data is itself data.

Post updated to include a poll.

 

[Exentryk]

Use it for video editing and video recording at 4K. The new adobe premiere versions have hardware encoding which uses 100% of my 2080 and ~90% of my 5930k.

Editing in premiere is still laggy, mostly due to videos being 4K h264, which is not suited for editing. Wonder if better hardware might be able to brute force it?

 

[thief183]

3d modeling and animation, also video editing that now can take advantage of high end cards.

Other than that gaming ofc.

 

[Bonfires Down]

Indesign/Photoshop

 

[mango drank]

Editing in premiere is still laggy, mostly due to videos being 4K h264, which is not suited for editing

Is that because Premiere has to decompress h264 on the fly? I ran into that recently, trying to edit some hi-res h264 video captures that OBS Studio generated. Premiere choked, scrubbing was basically impossible. But I'm also using an older version of Premiere, haven't bothered to upgrade. (Me going back through old video editing notes: ah yeah, less-compressed "intermediate" formats are better for video editing.)

 

[Exentryk]

Is that because Premiere has to decompress h264 on the fly? I ran into that recently, trying to edit some hi-res h264 video captures that OBS Studio generated. Premiere choked, scrubbing was basically impossible. But I'm also using an older version of Premiere, haven't bothered to upgrade. (Me going back through old video editing notes: ah yeah, less-compressed "intermediate" formats are better for video editing.)

Yes. There is an option to using proxies (which is basically converting video to a more friendly format and editing that), but I can't be stuffed doing that as my edits are mostly simple trims.

If someone has a better way around this, I'd love to know.

 

[PhoenixTank]

My GPU does a far better job of video/image noise reduction than my old CPU did. Even if that is no longer true (haven't checked), it means I'm leveraging as much of the system I can and freeing up the CPU to work on the tasks only it can.

If someone has a better way around this, I'd love to know.

Depending on how simple we're talking, FFmpeg might do the job for you. Just grab the appropriate timestamps from a normal video player and feed them into ffmpeg with -ss and -to.

 

[GreatnessRD]

Does pornhub count as an other use?

 

[Chiggs]

Daz and Blender mostly.

 

[DonJuanSchlong]

Does pornhub count as an other use?

High quality pr0n definitely counts, check your GPU usage with a video playing in chrome incognito mode. Yes chrome, because only console peasants use internet explorer.

 

[dcx4610]

It's my main hub for everything. Games, web browsing, IRC/Discord, my full music collection, movies, porn, documents.

A lot of people use their phones for this stuff these days but it feels like such a gimped experience to me. Most people wake up and plop down on a couch and watch TV, I plop down on my chair at my PC all day. It has everything I need for entertainment.

 

[DForce]

3D rendering

 

[V4skunk]

Games and browsing the web / YouTube.

 

[Dr.brain64]

Games, watch 4k yt and watch high res streams

 

[Werewolfgrandma]

Media server for all my tbs of 4k remuxes and high res audio playing

 

[SatansReverence]

CAD and CAM.

 

[mango drank]

CAD and CAM.

Gah, I completely forgot about industrial design / engineering / architecture / CAD stuff. Added them to the poll.

 

[skneogaf]

Absolutely nothing but gaming on 2 of my 3 computers which is why I want a Windows 10 gamer edition that only has gaming "stuff" in the edition.

I hate having to update Windows for things I don't use or see them in Windows at all.