The processing time on Topaz Video Ai is very slow, Is there a workaround?

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Whenever I upscale any low quality video to 4k 60fps, I only get about 6-7fps on average.

My current settings in the video AI is progressive iris and proteus (automatically estimated), with Chronos fast for frame interpolation. Additionally, I have the encoder set to H264 High, with the bitrate set to auto.

Moving on, here are my specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-9700KF CPU @ 5.00HZ (Overclocked)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti
RAM: 32GB.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks to increase the performance of Topaz Video Ai, or is it usually this resource intensive?

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Based on what your source is, and they amount of work to upscale to 4K 60fps, I6-7 fps sounds right. You either need a 40 series card, or i9, or both, to get better speed.

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Not really… i want to upscale 1080p 30fps video to 4k 30fps, using my RTX 4090… i get about 1.2 FPS

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That definitely seems too slow. Which CPU do you have?

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Would you mind post your benchmark here.

You can run benchmark by clicking Process → Benchmark or “Ctrl + B”

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From what I can see the app doesn’t use available resources fully. My CPU is 70 % idle and the GPU has a lot more to offer.

Unfortunately this app is only good for very short clips. That’s a pity since the result after enhancement is absolutly useable.

With other video apps the performance on my new powerful Mac is very good. I wish Topaz Labs can find a solution and make the app usable again.

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I use an M1 Max Macbook and was getting atrocious processing times, but I changed a few settings and went from .3fps to 18fps! I turned off anonymous data collection, changed export quality level from medium to high, and changed export container from mp4 to mov. I suspect there is less processing/compressing being done with these changes. I am starting with a mov file and suspect keeping it as mov cuts off some processing. Not for sure on the reasoning, but it went from stupidly unusable to useful.