New computer with an Nvidia RTX 5060 video card and I'm having low performance
victor moises
Hello, I recently bought a new computer with an Nvidia RTX 5060 video card and I'm having performance issues during export. During export, it starts using the video card well, but when it reaches 40% of the export, the performance starts to drop to 2% and demands more load from the processor. The video in question is in full HD, recorded with my cell phone, a little over 4 minutes long. I'm using version 2026 of PD as a test. My question is, is PowerDirector not optimized to work with the new Nvidia RTX 50 series cards?
My computer is an AMD Ryzen 5700X with 64 GB of memory and I use NVMe SSDs in it, and 64 GB of RAM (4 sticks of 16 GB). Why does the video card lose performance during export? Is there any fix?
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Whether the GPU engages in the video export process depends on what effects or editing you made on your project timeline.
AFAIK, at least the color adjustment, video speed change, and video stabilizing primarily relies on CPU to render or export in PD. These effects or features won't use your GPU.
That's by design and I would consider no "fix" unless they make a comprehensive change in the video features to utilize GPU workload more.
victor moises
QC 2.0Thanks, the effects I used were color correction, in some takes I used noise reduction and those custom titles with background audio from the library. I thought PowerDirector used the GPU for effects to be well balanced with the CPU, good to know now that I have a very powerful computer. PowerDirector doesn't take full advantage of its performance, I'll test other editing programs. PowerDirector used to be super powerful.
Ashley Williams
victor moises Hi Victor,
No, it has always been this way. CPU is required to render each frame of video for things such as color correction. The GPU for effects was when rendering style effects on the video. Very different.
Ash
victor moises
Ashley WilliamsAshley, are there any optimization settings I should configure for the program to work and extract maximum performance from my computer? I use Windows 11 24h2 because I really liked the new PowerDirector interface. If it delivers good performance on my system, I intend to keep it on my computer and buy the more advanced version with all the features. Previously, when I used it, the rendering was very fast compared to other programs of that time.
Ashley Williams
victor moises Hi,
Man I wish the old forum was still around for a resource in a situation like this.
You are color correcting, which means Powerdirector must apply the correction on each individual frame and then re-render it. This is very time consuming work for the CPU, so there is no way to speed this up. I remember there were a lot of similar posts on the old forum on this, and the response was for color correction, slow rendering will always be the case.
When you are referring to previous renders that were fast, was color correction involved? That is the key variable here.
Ash
victor moises
Ashley Williams Hello, I did some other tests here and noticed that rendering the preview on the timeline before exporting reduces the CPU bottleneck during export. Even so, doing this process was quite slow. When doing this process, the CPU usage varied from 45 to 57% during export, never exceeding 60%, and the GPU usage also varied from 37 to 45%. The videos used were recorded from my Canon XA 50 camcorder in full HD 30p with Canon's .mp4 codec. Besides color correction, I didn't use any other effects, only cuts, transitions, and text.
I even contacted support reporting the low performance, but they haven't responded to my email yet with any feedback. I have some licenses from when I bought PowerDirector from older versions. It seems that the older versions rendered faster, and SVRT worked much better than the current version.
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Jeffrey Turner
victor moises Hello, what Ashley is saying is true. an interesting point. When you say; "The video in question is in full HD, recorded with my cell phone" Is that video clip 4k? Or, are you puting it out in 4k? Because, If you change the settings of a video clip, "UP" or "Down" quality/data rate etc, from the original, that will slow things! Did you use color correction on the whole video, or only on parts of the video? When you installed PD 2026; Did it ask if you wanted to to set up the GPU for Optimal Performance, something to that effect?. In earlier versions, 2023/2024 I was asked this when installing them, I have since installed 2025 and 2026 and was not asked or offered that option, interesting!! I have found the same issues when I use the various correction tools, such as; If I edit the audio from PD to Audio Director and back, can realy slow things down while rendering those portions of the video. If only a portion of a video clip needs correction, cut the video each side and edit just that section and DO NOT put any transitions in the cuts!!!! Similar applies when using other correction tools. After you have rendered a video once, in the case where you have used correction tools, you should render it again on the same settings, as you can get a little bit better quallity and it SHOULD render quite quickly! To do this, you should load the rendered video on the time line, in place of the original. I believe the more sophisticated these programs get, especially with this AI sh---- stuff--(Who wants artifical videos?)-- they are trying to bring in, there will be more problems!! By the way, when I upgraded from 2025 to 2026 I feel I just wasted money, was no benefit!! I have looked at other video editing programs, Da Vinci free works quite well, but a steep learning curve and also can be slow, something I would consider again, if PD gets TOO stupid. PD 2023/2024 works just as well as 2025/2026, the main difference being the layout that one has to get used to, with some other little benefits, maybe! Cheers!