Question: affordable video card compatible with motherboard for Adobe After Effects

[Gustavo21876013gr6c]

Good morning everyone!

A friend of mine will start using Adobe After effects soon and I would like to give him a graphics video card as a gift. I am looking for something of moderate price (cheaper than 300 euro if possible). The specs of his computer are:

Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology A320M-S2H-CF

Microprocessor: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics, 3700 MHz, 4 cores

RAM: 16 Gb (do not know which type of DDR)

Do you know by any chance which card would be best for this type of computer?

Thanks in advance! 😃

[Jqke]

right now its very hard to get a good gpu for under $600 usd. may want to wait a bit unless you want to buy something thats $700-800 usd

[Mrtn Ritter]

AE is not a GPU based application and if a good GPU is necassary depends on what your friend is planning to do with AE.

I made a lot of character rigging and 2D graphical animations beside VR/360 edits - all on a GTX 1080 which was ideling all the time, because AE hardly used it. If you use GPU plugings it's another story.

*Martin

[Gustavo21876013gr6c]

Thank you for your time, MrtN. Do you know if what you said here also applies for Adobe premiere?

[Mrtn Ritter]

Premiere does utilize GPU a lot! It uses GPU for previewing and video encoding and even on exports. When it comes to effects, it depends on the effect (GPU accelerated or not) and when you import an AE comp into your premiere timeline, this comp is calculated by AE (hardly GPU support) and only the final result is passed to Premiere.

Better switch to Premiere forum for detailed recommendations - I just did some easy edits in Premiere.

*Martin