Inquiry for PC GPU card economy upgrade

[ozstar100]

HI,

I am on a super economy buy, so please no latest gear although would love it.

I am looking at this box for editing using Magix Video Pro X and Power Director 365

HP Z640 E5-1650v3 6C/12T 3.5Ghz 32GB Ram 512GB SSD M4000 925W W10P

My thoughts are a better GPU for rendering speed. It would need to be an older version to fit budget.

Any suggestion please?

[jagabo]

Note that GPU encoding with older GPUs may be faster than with your CPU -- but the quality will be significantly worse. You'll probably need 2x the bitrate to achieve similar quality.

[Selur]

NVIDIA GPU which is most capable with regard to NVENC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC) that fits your budget.
Newer NVENC generation usually mean more speed.

[jagabo]

I would avoid anything before Nvidia Gen 6 (lack of b-frame support is a quality-per-bitrate killer). And avoid anything ATI/AMD completely. Which probably puts the half-way decent cards (GTX 1650 and above) outside your price range.

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

[ozstar100]

Thanks for the advise but..

it looks like not a good outcome.

[Alwyn]

Ozstar100,

In VPX and MMS, the encoder for export is selectable. Whether that would get around Jagabo's issue remains to be seen.

If you're editing anything higher than HD (1920x1080) the reality is it won't be smooth sailing (Magix can use proxy files which help a lot on low-powered machines).

The question is whether "upgrading" from the M4000 to the Magix min recommended GTX 1050Ti is worth it.

I would avoid anything before Nvidia Gen 6 (lack of b-frame support is a quality-per-bitrate killer).

What are your thoughts on the GTX 1050Ti (this is the Magix-recommended minimum-level GPU); does your B frame comment only relate to HEVC encoding (linked table)?