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June 16, 2018
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Can you please recommend a graphics card for my PC setup (4K)?

  • June 16, 2018
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Hi all,

I will be doing a lot of visual effects work in After Effects 2018.  Raw footage will be 4K material.  I will be editing & colouring in Premiere Pro 2018 at 1080p, although the final export will be in 4K once editing is complete.  I would like to know which graphics card would work best with my current setup?

Presently, I have a Geforce GT 740, which I'll upgrade.  As far as budget goes, I guess I'd like to know which graphics card would be good in the $250+ area and the $500+ area, which is my limit for now.  Second hand purchase is an option for me too.

I have a couple of SSDs running in my setup.

Can anybody assist me?

Thanks in advance...

System technical specs:

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System Information

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         Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 17134) (17134.rs4_release.180410-1804)

                 Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

      System Manufacturer: ASUS

             System Model: All Series

                     BIOS: 2907 (type: UEFI)

                Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.5GHz

                   Memory: 16384MB RAM

      Available OS Memory: 16320MB RAM

                Page File: 6880MB used, 11871MB available

              Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

          DirectX Version: DirectX 12

      DX Setup Parameters: Not found

         User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

       System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

          DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

                 Miracast: Available, no HDCP

Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported

           DxDiag Version: 10.00.17134.0001 64bit Unicode

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Display Devices

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           Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

        Manufacturer: NVIDIA

           Chip type: GeForce GT 740

            DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

         Device Type: Full Device (POST)

       Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]

Device Problem Code: No Problem

Driver Problem Code: Unknown

      Display Memory: 10167 MB

    Dedicated Memory: 2007 MB

       Shared Memory: 8159 MB

        Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)

         HDR Support: Not Supported

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Correct answer RjL190365

With that CPU a 6GB GeForce GTX 1060 would be a fine match, if you absolutely must buy a new GPU now. Don't waste your money on anything higher than that since a GPU that's significantly more powerful than the CPU that it's used with will actually cause problems in Premiere such as corrupt renders which may appear in the exported video. (And whichever GPU you choose, do not choose the recently introduced 3GB version of the GTX 1050, which although it has the same number of CUDA cores as the GTX 1050 Ti has only a 96-bit memory bus instead of the 128-bit memory bus of the 2GB GTX 1050 and the 4GB GTX 1050 Ti, with the resulting memory throughput of only 84 GB/s for the 3GB GTX 1050 instead of the 112 GB/s of the other two 1050s.)

On the other hand, I would have recommended a CPU upgrade to an i7-4790K for your current motherboard since no quad-core, non-hyperthreadable i5 CPU is powerful enough to comfortably handle 4k at all. But at current going prices, such an upgrade would have left you even less room in your budget for a GPU upgrade: Even with a $500 maximum upgrade budget, the current going price of an i7-4790K would not have left you with enough money left in that budget for anything above a GT 1030, which (even in its GDDR5 version - there is an even weaker DDR4 version of the GT 1030 now available) is not an upgrade (performance-wise) from your current GT 740. What's more, some GT 740s use only DDR3 memory instead of GDDR5 memory, so depending on the version you got either a slightly higher-clocked version of the first-gen GT 640 or a slightly lower-clocked version of the GTX 650 – both of which are based on the same Kepler GK107 GPU with only 384 CUDA cores. That's too weak for newer versions of Premiere Pro CC.

And remember, no high(er)-end GPU can ever compensate for a weakling CPU!

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RjL190365Correct answer
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June 16, 2018

With that CPU a 6GB GeForce GTX 1060 would be a fine match, if you absolutely must buy a new GPU now. Don't waste your money on anything higher than that since a GPU that's significantly more powerful than the CPU that it's used with will actually cause problems in Premiere such as corrupt renders which may appear in the exported video. (And whichever GPU you choose, do not choose the recently introduced 3GB version of the GTX 1050, which although it has the same number of CUDA cores as the GTX 1050 Ti has only a 96-bit memory bus instead of the 128-bit memory bus of the 2GB GTX 1050 and the 4GB GTX 1050 Ti, with the resulting memory throughput of only 84 GB/s for the 3GB GTX 1050 instead of the 112 GB/s of the other two 1050s.)

On the other hand, I would have recommended a CPU upgrade to an i7-4790K for your current motherboard since no quad-core, non-hyperthreadable i5 CPU is powerful enough to comfortably handle 4k at all. But at current going prices, such an upgrade would have left you even less room in your budget for a GPU upgrade: Even with a $500 maximum upgrade budget, the current going price of an i7-4790K would not have left you with enough money left in that budget for anything above a GT 1030, which (even in its GDDR5 version - there is an even weaker DDR4 version of the GT 1030 now available) is not an upgrade (performance-wise) from your current GT 740. What's more, some GT 740s use only DDR3 memory instead of GDDR5 memory, so depending on the version you got either a slightly higher-clocked version of the first-gen GT 640 or a slightly lower-clocked version of the GTX 650 – both of which are based on the same Kepler GK107 GPU with only 384 CUDA cores. That's too weak for newer versions of Premiere Pro CC.

And remember, no high(er)-end GPU can ever compensate for a weakling CPU!

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    jackc8836908Author
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    June 18, 2018

    Thank you very much for your advice.  Very useful information indeed.  I appreciate your help.

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