First-party production evidence · sample n=1

What one real 1440p Music Motion render tells us—and what it does not.

This report uses a completed production job recorded by the Music Motion render service. It publishes the actual renderer path, frame count and timing instead of turning a Task Manager percentage into a speed claim.

Source project
46s

1440p output · 1,379 completed frames

Observed throughput
4.1 fps

Frame-production rate written by the GPU v3.2 completion log.

Wall time
6m 04s

From the job-start timestamp to the completed MP4 timestamp.

Render ratio
7.9×

About 7.9 seconds of work per second of source in this one project.

Verified render path

RendererMusic Motion GPU renderer v3.2
Graphics deviceNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB
Graphics pathANGLE / D3D11
Video encoderNVIDIA hardware encoder (D3D11 / Media Foundation)
H.264 elementary stream247.7 MiB before MP4 muxing

What the log proves

  • The frame renderer ran through the GPU v3.2 path.
  • ANGLE used the D3D11 graphics path on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
  • The H.264 stream used NVIDIA hardware encoding through D3D11 / Media Foundation.
  • The completed MP4 contained the full 1,379-frame sequence.

Why 20% GPU does not mean 80% speed is unused

01

Different engines

Windows displays 3D, copy, decode and encode as separate engines. A low encoder graph does not measure shader work.

02

A serial pipeline

Asset decoding, scene preparation, browser-to-GPU synchronization, frame completion and muxing can wait on one another.

03

The safest next test

Compare the same source and effect at 1080p and 1440p, repeat three times, then test one and two concurrent jobs.

Limits of this first observation

  • This is a production observation, not a controlled multi-effect laboratory benchmark.
  • One render cannot predict every effect, source-video codec, resolution or project length.
  • Wall time includes preparation and muxing as well as frame rendering.
  • The result must not be interpreted as a guaranteed render time for customers.

Observation captured 25 July 2026. The report will be updated when a controlled multi-run matrix is available.

Judge the visual result before you judge the progress graph.

Open the live demo, choose an effect and test how it responds to your own track. Rendering performance varies by project; the editor lets you validate the look first.

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Music Visualizer GPU Render Benchmark 2026 | Music Motion