GPU Acceleration upgrade?

So I do a lot of video editing and other applications. I have the 880m right now, but I've never hit 100 percent usage when doing GPU accelerated work. Does that mean that even if I am using 80 percent of my GPU, upgrading to the 980m or 990m would be pointless in terms of GPU video acceleration? Or would it still help encode the effects faster even though I never get '' bottlenecked'' by my 880m?

 

These cards are designed for gaming, you'd be better off upgrading to a Quadro series GPU. Of course an upgrade to Maxwell will help you, but not by a large margin. Pascal is designed around deep learning and accelerated processing. It will be most beneficial, probably 3 times more powerful than your 880M.

 

if i could afford the top mobile quadro, i'd just get a beast of a desktop pc with that money lol. i noticed a big difference transitioning from using the cpu only to the cpu and gpu for accelerated effects.

 

you need to be more precise on what operation you doing, not all acceleration are done in shader. encoding wise, is gpu acceleration even useful, nvenc?

 

Not sure which video editing software you are using but in Premiere for example, unless you are shelling out a few thousand dollars for the K6000/K5200 or new M6000/M5000, etc. level of desktop Quadro cards, they are generally going to perform worse than GTX 970 gaming card, and forget about the even weaker Quadro mobile cards.

The only reason to go with a Quadro for Premiere would be if you really need 10-bit or better color output.

 

i use the whole adobe suite. so premiere pro mostly

yeah i use nvenc a lot and use the adobe creative suite.