Posted 22 January 2024

Recommend a graphics card - Editing

My son is starting to pick up work editing for YouTubers. I have said I will upgrade his 1660 TI to something more suited/modern

i could get a 4070 Super for £600 ish but would it be OTT for starting off - or would a 3060 12GB be adequate for him? I have considered AMD but keep on being drawn back to Nvidia. I have even considered an Arc 770 

i have also bought him a 5900X to upgrade his 3600x. He has 32GB Ram, dual monitors and if his PSU needs beefing up I will do that

he works in Premier Pro

just as an FYI, he done 15 minutes of a video that went up 2 weeks ago that now has 3 million views and it looks like he will be getting more work from that channel

TIA
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  1. aLV426's avatar
    Premiere Pro benefits greatly from using a GPU, but which card is best depends on how many GPU-accelerated effects you use and whether you regularly export to H. 264/HEVC.
    Generally you would need at least a 6GB GPU for 4K editing...
  2. Mail's avatar
    Premier Pro doesn't natively support this, but you'd want a card that handles AV1 encoding. You might want to change to something like Davinci Resolve that does so, but if not then you can use Influx (to import) and Voukoder (to export) for it to work. These two are plugins.

    H.265 (HEVC) is great in terms of retaining quality but sucks in video editing, however it's better than H.264 (AVC), so your best bet is to run it on x264 that purely runs on your CPU or AV1 in my opinion.

    If the system is purely for video editing, I'd highly recommend the Intel Arc GPU lineup. Can get a card with 16gb for maybe £250-270, however you might want to wait a bit for the 7600xt that has 16gb of vram that has AMD AV1 technology in the card itself that would be more ideal for gaming.

    Here is an example of the video quality difference between all of them:



    Admittedly it's NVIDIA but you should expect similar results from AMF (AMD) or Quicksync (Intel).

    If I had to recommend a GPU right now, I would say the RX 7600 (for the same reason as the 7600xt, but with half the memory). This GPU focuses on the fact that it's quite optimal in video editing AND gaming, in case he's interested in that. (edited)
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    I have seen some UT’s though saying about having inconsistent errors with AMD when doing editing

    i did consider Intel for the AV1 native support but have seen reviews saying about things not being supported in the software being used although there may have been improvements recently??
  3. Pájaro's avatar
    Have a look at Puget Systems' testing. They're generally the best info resource out there for Adobe benchmarks. It's probably worth checking out their Resolve benchmarks, too - it's generally regarded as superior to Premiere Pro and appears to be gaining in popularity, so it's worth taking into consideration.
  4. kingkai's avatar
    The difference between the 3060 and 4070 for Premiere Pro is very minor, Premiere Pro is a more CPU-intensive application (most effects are not GPU-accelerated). The biggest difference he will notice will be exporting the video between a 3060 and 4070. Still, I would personally get a 4000 series GPU due to having AV1 encoding (future-proof). (edited)
  5. wpj's avatar
    I have a XFX 5700Xt 6Gb spare which my son pulled during an upgrade to a 3080.

    I was going to sell via Cex or eBay, but could let go for a low price if you are interested though it may not be enough for him. Power supply as well....
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