Graphics card upgrade before new Premiere version

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March 22, 2023
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What PC video graphics card should I upgrade to for the newest upcoming version of Adobe Premiere AND will be up to specs for Oculus Quest VR (versions 1 and 2)? I currently have EVGA GeForce GT 740 4GB GDDR5 Dual DVI mHDMI Graphics Card.

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Adobe just informed me that I will need to upgrade my graphics card before the new version of Adobe Premiere is released. I also have the first and second version of Oculus Quest VR headsets and have wanted the ability to connect them to my PC, but again, my graphics card has not been up to their stated specs. Ideally, I would like a graphics card that can handle both.

I am a user of programs, but honestly, I am not an in-the-weeds techy guy so I get lost quickly in the specs and have no idea which card from their lists will be “best.”

Attached is the list of my current PC specs.

Link to the Adobe specs page:

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/multi/system-requirements-dva-apps.html

Link to the Quest specs page:

https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/headsets-and-accessories/oculus-link/meta-quest-link-compatibility/

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RjL190365

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In addition to what I had stated, if you were using Premiere Pro 22.6.3 or 22.6.4 when you received that compatibility message, then Premiere Pro 23 now no longer supports Kepler GPUs at all for CUDA acceleration. Therefore, had you updated to version 23 or later, then Premiere Pro with your GPU would have been permanently locked into the MPE software-only rendering mode, with neither a warning nor any way whatsoever to change it.

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RjL190365

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For both Premiere Pro and VR use, I would recommend a GTX 1660 SUPER, or if you must buy new, an RTX 3060 12 GB. Anything higher than the 3060 would be overkill for your five-and-a-half-year-old eight-core CPU.

And whatever you do, I would not recommend you to continue to use your current GT 740 as it's already in legacy support status (as announced by Nvidia itself back in July of 2021, effective October 2021) - which means that there will be no more compatibility fixes ever for that and all other Kepler desktop GPUs while only critical security fixes will continue in "newer" driver versions for that generation of GPUs until September of 2024. Besides, your particular GT 740 is actually a slightly slower-clocked version of the GTX 650, which is also in legacy support status.