NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation - Video Editing Performance Not Usable

I stood up a test workstation in AWS (detail below) to test video editing and collaboration.

I connected via RDP. The specs prior to launch displayed 1GB of GPU memory in AWS console, but upon opening the servers’ Task Manager, the GPU apparently has 15GB of GPU memory.

I installed Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve, my editing software, and uploaded a short, unedited video to test.

Without making any modifications to the clip, playback of the video was very choppy. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

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NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstation - WinServer 2019
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Best regards,
DJ—

Hi.

For video editing, RDP probably not good remoting protocol. You need have more interactive remoting protocol based on h.264 encoding.

  1. Have you test with baremetal with RDP?
  2. Have you monitoring GPU utilzation from NVIDIA control panel when you do play back

Thank you.
Jason

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NICE-DCV is the aws way to go about these workstations

Sorry for bumping into an old conversation. One thing to consider is that even though the GPU has 15GB of memory, other factors may be at play that are causing the choppiness in playback.