Well, it’s embarrassing, but I’m gonna say it.
I installed a PCIe USB card in PCIEX16_2, and it was sharing bandwidth with PCIEX16_1.
I totally forgot about it.
I’ve now relocated the USB card to PCIEX1_3.
The GPU was running at PCIe 3.0 x8.
Great men make great mistakes. lol
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX with Radeon Graphics 61.708 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 7.71 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon(TM) 610M 1.9744 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 10.64 fps 2X: 06.25 fps 4X: 01.99 fps
Iris 1X: 13.76 fps 2X: 07.63 fps 4X: 02.40 fps
Proteus 1X: 12.79 fps 2X: 08.32 fps 4X: 02.70 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 04.09 fps
Gaia 1X: 04.32 fps 2X: 03.01 fps 4X: 02.09 fps
Nyx 1X: 05.99 fps 2X: 04.83 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 12.58 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 01.01 fps
Rhea 4X: 01.99 fps
RXL 4X: 01.84 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 25.32 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 14.87 fps APFast: 27.37 fps Chronos: 10.36 fps CHFast: 13.19 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: ERR fps
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900K 127.76 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 31.433 GB
GPU: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 0.125 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 42.55 fps 2X: 17.78 fps 4X: 04.83 fps
Iris 1X: 54.79 fps 2X: 20.17 fps 4X: 05.30 fps
Proteus 1X: 50.21 fps 2X: 17.99 fps 4X: 05.17 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 14.63 fps
Gaia 1X: 18.21 fps 2X: 12.15 fps 4X: 04.66 fps
Nyx 1X: 25.81 fps 2X: 19.70 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 41.96 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 04.20 fps
Rhea 4X: 04.74 fps
RXL 4X: 04.90 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 28.92 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 32.29 fps APFast: 31.66 fps Chronos: 37.02 fps CHFast: 34.42 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 43.01 fps
Very nice.
And may I ask if your results (benchmark) are now significantly better?
Kind regards
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K 63.83 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 15.603 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 35.50 fps 2X: 14.89 fps 4X: 05.18 fps
Iris 1X: 40.82 fps 2X: 20.48 fps 4X: 05.58 fps
Proteus 1X: 38.34 fps 2X: 20.10 fps 4X: 05.41 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 10.31 fps
Gaia 1X: 12.63 fps 2X: 08.84 fps 4X: 05.22 fps
Nyx 1X: 17.39 fps 2X: 14.44 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 38.22 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 02.66 fps
Rhea 4X: 05.00 fps
RXL 4X: 05.01 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 23.32 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 30.27 fps APFast: 35.97 fps Chronos: 26.88 fps CHFast: 34.62 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 54.51 fps
Not by much, and not across all models.
There is an improvement in the first three (Artemis, Iris, and Proteus),
but the others are about the same.
The real difference, which was a big surprise, was with WAN 2.2.
Videos are now created 50% faster.
It was already blazing fast.
Now it’s a night and day difference.
Kudos to Asus for releasing another BIOS update in February
for my ancient 9-year-old B350-F Gaming lol
Would it be possible to automatically include the # of CPU, GPU and Neural Engine cores in the benchmark output when the information is available? This would help us make better purchase decisions.
Thank you!
P.S. thanks to those who have included the information manually!
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v10.22
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor 63.664 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 15.603 GB
Processing Settings
device: -2 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 36.47 fps 2X: 18.75 fps 4X: 05.15 fps
Iris 1X: 38.46 fps 2X: 18.26 fps 4X: 05.45 fps
Proteus 1X: 38.34 fps 2X: 18.26 fps 4X: 05.60 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 11.82 fps
Gaia 1X: 12.81 fps 2X: 08.93 fps 4X: 04.68 fps
Nyx 1X: 17.44 fps 2X: 14.22 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 40.40 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 02.80 fps
Rhea 4X: 04.65 fps
RXL 4X: 04.68 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 15.36 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 35.01 fps APFast: 35.57 fps Chronos: 26.95 fps CHFast: 36.87 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 35.89 fps
Seems I bought the wrong GPU based on how much faster everyone’s results look with 5070 Ti / 5080… 
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 63.884 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 15.821 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 26.79 fps 2X: 10.74 fps 4X: 02.65 fps
Iris 1X: 34.19 fps 2X: 14.42 fps 4X: 03.65 fps
Proteus 1X: 31.58 fps 2X: 13.50 fps 4X: 03.66 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 01.30 fps
Gaia 1X: 16.90 fps 2X: 10.66 fps 4X: 03.31 fps
Nyx 1X: 13.79 fps 2X: 10.78 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 28.57 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 00.32 fps
Rhea 4X: 02.52 fps
RXL 4X: 03.01 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 21.31 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 20.38 fps APFast: 27.66 fps Chronos: 22.32 fps CHFast: 24.98 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 45.63 fps
Hi,
Okay, but you’re still at IRIS (my favorite model for enhancing) from 27.9 to 33.7 fps.
That’s over 20%, so it was worth it.
The best results with RTX5080 were probably achieved by shaw-ialmaeda with the i7-14700K, but that’s not really significantly more; that’s probably the performance limit of the 5080.
The best value for money for TOPAZ VIDEO at the moment is probably the RTX5070Ti.
(costs half as much and delivers 90% of the 5080’s performance, or something like that…)
Best regards
My Stone Age machine:
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz 31.828 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 15.603 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 0.85 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 33.15 fps 2X: 16.28 fps 4X: 04.28 fps
Iris 1X: 39.34 fps 2X: 14.62 fps 4X: 04.75 fps
Proteus 1X: 35.29 fps 2X: 15.36 fps 4X: 04.69 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 10.33 fps
Gaia 1X: 12.21 fps 2X: 08.37 fps 4X: 04.07 fps
Nyx 1X: 16.93 fps 2X: 13.61 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 37.50 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 02.64 fps
Rhea 4X: 04.16 fps
RXL 4X: 04.11 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 29.48 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 30.00 fps APFast: 34.09 fps Chronos: 25.94 fps CHFast: 33.03 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 37.80 fps
… Unfortunately, these dream values don’t apply to 4K,
… but I almost exclusively work in or scale to 4K, so it really goes downhill from there…
… pitch black 
… I’m usually in favor of only posting 1080 values here—for clarity and better comparability…
… but just for fun, here are the 4K values from my ancient machine:
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz 31.828 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 15.603 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 0.85 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 3840x2160
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 07.05 fps 2X: 03.59 fps 4X: ERR fps
Iris 1X: 07.96 fps 2X: 03.40 fps 4X: ERR fps
Proteus 1X: 07.80 fps 2X: 03.46 fps 4X: ERR fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 02.77 fps
Gaia 1X: 02.63 fps 2X: 01.83 fps 4X: 00.91 fps
Nyx 1X: 02.78 fps 2X: 03.41 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 06.24 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 00.66 fps
Rhea 4X: ERR fps
RXL 4X: ERR fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 12.94 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 10.09 fps APFast: 16.19 fps Chronos: 05.54 fps CHFast: 09.65 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: ERR fps
Have you ever considered the price-performance ratio?
kind regards
Here’s mine at 4k
```
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor 63.556 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 15.297 GB
Processing Settings
device: -2 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 3840x2160
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 06.59 fps 2X: 03.41 fps 4X: 01.13 fps
Iris 1X: 07.23 fps 2X: 03.90 fps 4X: 01.01 fps
Proteus 1X: 07.12 fps 2X: 03.93 fps 4X: 01.10 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 02.46 fps
Gaia 1X: 02.07 fps 2X: 01.49 fps 4X: 01.04 fps
Nyx 1X: 02.28 fps 2X: 03.22 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 05.69 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 00.59 fps
Rhea 4X: 00.93 fps
RXL 4X: 00.97 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 18.43 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 09.94 fps APFast: 25.82 fps Chronos: 04.77 fps CHFast: 08.29 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 14.48 fps
```
I re-ran mine at 4K given most of my input files are at that resolution. Quite a few error out compared to @andymagee-52287 above as an example with their 5070 Ti that fare a little better:
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.25
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor 63.884 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 15.821 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 3840x2160
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 05.78 fps 2X: 02.70 fps 4X: ERR fps
Iris 1X: 07.46 fps 2X: 03.38 fps 4X: ERR fps
Proteus 1X: 07.98 fps 2X: 03.08 fps 4X: ERR fps
Proteus Natural 2X: ERR fps
Gaia 1X: 04.39 fps 2X: 02.35 fps 4X: ERR fps
Nyx 1X: 02.58 fps 2X: 02.66 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 06.46 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 00.10 fps
Rhea 4X: ERR fps
RXL 4X: ERR fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 07.40 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 09.52 fps APFast: 15.36 fps Chronos: 04.88 fps CHFast: 09.57 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 11.69 fps
I have and you’re not wrong: 9070 XT is around £600-650 here whereas the 5070 Ti is currently hovering around £800-900. The 5080 is £1200, so yes from a performance per FPS standpoint my 9070 XT is good.
But, I can’t run Proteus Natural or Starlight on it. Proteus Natural seems to run out of VRAM and system RAM almost instantly with a 4K input video. I saw the VRAM fill to 16GB instantly with that model, and a further 39-41GB of system ram was pulled in alongside (!). My render FPS was 0.03 so I abandon it.
I also can’t run Starlight Mini at all, again due to needing 22GB or more VRAM. Given 2 very advanced models outstrip my hardware completely, any upgrade price to say a 5090 could be argued as worth it given my current FPS output with those models is zero.
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Mac v15.0703
CPU: Apple M3 Max 128 GB
GPU: Apple M3 Max 96 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 11.87 fps 2X: 06.69 fps 4X: 02.18 fps
Iris 1X: 08.37 fps 2X: 04.67 fps 4X: 01.38 fps
Proteus 1X: 08.66 fps 2X: 05.92 fps 4X: 02.04 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 00.83 fps
Gaia 1X: 03.43 fps 2X: 02.30 fps 4X: 01.75 fps
Nyx 1X: 04.76 fps 2X: 04.73 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 12.99 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 00.06 fps
Rhea 4X: 00.84 fps
RXL 4X: 00.83 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 12.58 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 09.55 fps APFast: 26.74 fps Chronos: 03.68 fps CHFast: 06.34 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 11.90 fps
Okay, the following is just my opinion:
For Topaz Video in 1080 or 2160, there are only:
RTX: 4090 (if already available), 5070TI, 5080, and 5090…
everything else is completely unsuitable for modern formats or longer projects…
… Professional cards are useful for diffusion models, but they are of no use for the others…
Since the computer is basically blocked forever with Topaz, the cheapest option for semi-professional use would definitely be to buy a second computer with a small motherboard and an RTX 5070TI…
then it doesn’t matter if it runs a few hours longer… surely cheaper than buying a 5090 for that reason?
… I’ll also get a 5090 as soon as there are processors with a decent RAM controller—8000 or better 10,000 MT/s certified—there aren’t any! ! …
INTEL is asleep! ! Everyone is asleep! !
… But I’ll keep the computer with the 5080 for Topaz;
.. I need the 5090 for more real-time performance in DaVinci (6K; 8K VR) …
Best regards
Topaz Video has become a gaming Benchmark.
The System with the Highes Bandwidth, the Highest Frequency and the most Cores (both gpu and cpu) (Codec bound) are the fastest.
GPU inferencing has become gaming.
Big caches in GPUs don’t play a big role since everything is bandwidth bound.
The cache only plays a role if you data does fit completly into the cache of the gpu.
Or when you process multiple videos at the same time and the GPU is able to re-use the cache for both videos/images.
Topaz Video v1.2.0
System Information
OS: Windows v11.23
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor 31.922 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 11.801 GB
Processing Settings
device: 0 vram: 1 instances: 1
Input Resolution: 1920x1080
Benchmark Results
Artemis 1X: 22.26 fps 2X: 09.40 fps 4X: 02.83 fps
Iris 1X: 24.24 fps 2X: 12.66 fps 4X: 03.30 fps
Proteus 1X: 23.81 fps 2X: 12.46 fps 4X: 03.79 fps
Proteus Natural 2X: 06.96 fps
Gaia 1X: 08.38 fps 2X: 05.78 fps 4X: 03.34 fps
Nyx 1X: 12.31 fps 2X: 09.96 fps
Nyx Fast 1X: 26.03 fps
Nyx XL 1X: 01.77 fps
Rhea 4X: 02.83 fps
RXL 4X: 02.94 fps
Hyperion HDR 1X: 21.09 fps
4X Slowmo Apollo: 26.49 fps APFast: 29.93 fps
Chronos: 16.40 fps CHFast: 26.69 fps
16X Slowmo Aion: 30.44 fps
