FCPX + GTX 970 = Almost no GPU load during render

[PashZ]

Hi everyone!
Just have built my first custoMac two weeks ago. Today noticed that when rendering a video in Final Cut, iStat shows that GPU has no significant raise in load, so it seems to work just as usual and all the rendering is handled by CPU only. So the question is if that's okay (I've read that AMD chips are supported natively in Mac OS because of being installed to iMacs so FCPX can use the hardware most efficient) or there can be something tweaked to make the app use the full power of the PC?

Thanks!

 

[bigpoppyjoe]

I've been reading a lot about different GPU's for use with FCPX, and from what I've gathered, Nvidia cards have trouble with utilizing OpenCL, which is an essential aspect of the software. It's a bummer because I wanted to upgrade to a 1080!

 

[aberracus]

AMD cards are the only cards for FCPX, i recommend RX 580