AMD vs NVIDIA video card (non-pro use)

[zkm83447224]

I am building a new machine and thinking about buying a AMD RX 580.   I know that NVIDIA supports CUDA whereas AMD supports OpenCL.

Ive read that Adobe supports CUDA more than OpenCL, is this true?

For an average home user who creates family videos and edits photos, would a AMD video card be acceptable?   Is it worth paying more for NVIDIA?

[R Neil Haugen]

This issue actually a good question to post in the Hardware forum listed in the links of forums on the right side of the Overview page of this forum.

Neil

[John T Smith]

Not everything uses CUDA... read this

https://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro/

[ECBowen]

The performance and stability are better with Cuda but the GPU acceleration does work with Open CL. Open CL in Adobe just has issues with generating video anomalies or crashing on occasion and the performance is lower. Open CL in most GPU accelerating applications have the same instability with Open CL due to memory management. More ram such as atleast 16GB or 32GB for most standard codecs helps alleviate the issues some. You want 64GB for 4K media in more complex codecs like H264/H265.

Eric

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