Video Editing and Encoding - 680Gtx Sli vs single card & Quick Sync

[melodymoony]

Greetings!

What do you guys think is better for Video Editing/encoding?

Single 2gb 680 GTX with Quick Sync enabled or 2 680s Sli

I use Power Director 11 (I think CyberLink was going to take advantage of NVENC on PowerDirector 11, but I'm not sure if it's working yet)

I also read that Quick Sync + Single card might be faster, but less quality than 2 sli cards?

I use my Pc for gaming too and my system specs are I7 3770k, 16gb Ram, SSD Samsung 830 512gb and a 3tb barracuda.


Any advice would be really appreciated,

thank you.

 

[neon neophyte]

quicksync, by far. not only is the quality better but it is considerably faster.

quicksync is by far, the best way to encode using hardware acceleration

 

[melodymoony]

Thank you for answering so fast, how faster is Quicksync?

I am wondering if it is like 60% faster as advertised?

 

[neon neophyte]

http://media.bestofmicro.com/C/G/334816/original/mediaespresso.png

keep in mind the quality on quicksync is better than that of cuda as well.

 

[melodymoony]

Ok thanks a lot!

 

[melodymoony]

Best answer selected by melodymoony.