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Russell Howard · October 21st, 2011, 02:08 PM

Please forgive the uneducated question. The AMD Radeo HD 6970M is the graphics card found in the newer iMacs. Does it qualify under the new Vegas 11 specs for GPU rendering, being that it is, technically, a mobile graphics solution, or does that matter?

I plan on running Vegas natively in Windows using Bootcamp on the new iMac. It is about the only Windows program I still use (Vegas)

I hope this question makes some kind of sense......

Mike Kujbida · October 21st, 2011, 08:51 PM

The following page from Sony may be of some help.

Vegas Pro 11 GPU acceleration

Russell Howard · October 22nd, 2011, 12:56 PM

I guess what I am asking is there any difference between the 6970 and the 6970M. From what I can see on the Sony site, it should work......

Bruce Phung · October 22nd, 2011, 02:49 PM

I think 6970M is laptop.

Andrew Jezierski · October 22nd, 2011, 04:38 PM

there were reports on another forum that some Radeon cards despite being on Sony list do not work with vegas 11

Bill Koehler · October 22nd, 2011, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Russell Howard

I hope this question makes some kind of sense......

It makes perfect sense. And fact is there are a lot of folks with laptops with Radeon HD Mobile cards in them. I do know my new quadcore windows laptop has a Radeon HD 6000 mobile series card with 1 GB in it. So once I have things working to my satisfaction on my desktop, it's next. But I haven't gotten there yet.

Sean Seah · October 23rd, 2011, 09:40 AM

Bill, I confirm that it works. Just got it to work on my 2011 MBP =) I see the GPU under pref>video

Russell Howard · October 23rd, 2011, 12:50 PM

Thank you Sean!

Bill Koehler · October 23rd, 2011, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean Seah

Bill, I confirm that it works. Just got it to work on my 2011 MBP =) I see the GPU under pref>video

I think the pressure for me to get Vegas 11 Pro installed on my laptop & tested just went up... :-)
But being able to do HD on the go was what I bought this laptop for, so all the better.

Thomas Smet · October 26th, 2011, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean Seah

Bill, I confirm that it works. Just got it to work on my 2011 MBP =) I see the GPU under pref>video

Sean I'm not seeing the gpu listed on my 17" 2011 MBP. What gpu driver are you using? I noticed mine was older but I cannot seem to update it because it has to use a special bootcamp driver and not the regular AMD drivers. Is there a way you were able to force a gpu update?

Sean Seah · October 26th, 2011, 10:39 AM

Oh yes i found the way to overcome that on apple support forums. You cant use the auto detect. I installed 2 patches but i cant seem to find the page again. Try googling 6970M Win 7 driver

October 21st, 2011, 02:08 PM	#1
Russell Howard New Boot Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: San Angelo, TX Posts: 9	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Please forgive the uneducated question. The AMD Radeo HD 6970M is the graphics card found in the newer iMacs. Does it qualify under the new Vegas 11 specs for GPU rendering, being that it is, technically, a mobile graphics solution, or does that matter? I plan on running Vegas natively in Windows using Bootcamp on the new iMac. It is about the only Windows program I still use (Vegas) I hope this question makes some kind of sense......

October 21st, 2011, 08:51 PM	#2
Mike Kujbida Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Windsor, ON Canada Posts: 2,770	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M The following page from Sony may be of some help. Vegas Pro 11 GPU acceleration

October 22nd, 2011, 12:56 PM	#3
Russell Howard New Boot Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: San Angelo, TX Posts: 9	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M I guess what I am asking is there any difference between the 6970 and the 6970M. From what I can see on the Sony site, it should work......

October 22nd, 2011, 02:49 PM	#4
Bruce Phung Major Player Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Rochester,NY USA Posts: 285	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M I think 6970M is laptop.

October 22nd, 2011, 04:38 PM	#5
Andrew Jezierski Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Windsor, Ontario Posts: 35	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M there were reports on another forum that some Radeon cards despite being on Sony list do not work with vegas 11

October 23rd, 2011, 09:40 AM	#7
Sean Seah Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,498	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M Bill, I confirm that it works. Just got it to work on my 2011 MBP =) I see the GPU under pref>video __________________ Firewerkz Films SGP

October 23rd, 2011, 12:50 PM	#8
Russell Howard New Boot Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: San Angelo, TX Posts: 9	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M Thank you Sean!

October 26th, 2011, 10:39 AM	#11
Sean Seah Trustee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 1,498	Re: AMD Radeon HD 6970M Oh yes i found the way to overcome that on apple support forums. You cant use the auto detect. I installed 2 patches but i cant seem to find the page again. Try googling 6970M Win 7 driver __________________ Firewerkz Films SGP