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November 25, 2022
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Best card for H264 encoding using Media Encoder

  • November 25, 2022
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Hi,

I'm going through the pain of trying to upgrade my PC desktop / tower.

I only export .mp4 H264 videos, using Media Encoder.

What are the crietria I should look for in choosing the best graphics card, please? ... other than price - I need to stay under about £700 GBP.

The main issue is the H264 encoding - I learned that some cards simply don't do that but I don't even know what to look for, when assessing the bewildering array of hardware.

Any help would be fabulous because this seems to be such a difficult questions to answer!

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    Correct answer RjL190365

    With that kind of GPU budget in the UK you might be lucky to score a GeForce RTX 3080, but more likely you'd have to settle for a 3070 or 3060 series GPU (with or without the "Ti" suffix). These GPUs have the NVENC that's useful for hardware encoding of H.264 output.

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    Legend
    November 26, 2022

    With that kind of GPU budget in the UK you might be lucky to score a GeForce RTX 3080, but more likely you'd have to settle for a 3070 or 3060 series GPU (with or without the "Ti" suffix). These GPUs have the NVENC that's useful for hardware encoding of H.264 output.

    KusumasAuthor
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    November 28, 2022

    That's a great start. Do you have experiene using those cards? The reviews all complain that they're really noisy - is that likely to be an issue with video work (as in, is it an over-clocking gaming problem)?

    Any ideas?

    KusumasAuthor
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    November 28, 2022

    Thank you so much John T Smith.

    To let you know, the video and much of the information in the second link https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/everything-you-need-to-know-about-gpu-in-premiere-pro/td... is out of date, being over 3 years old.

    The rest of the information is helpful as background but, again, out of date to this issue.

    I do appreciate your help.

    Johnny