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May 2, 2020
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The cheapest video card for rendering Premiere Pro

  • May 2, 2020
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Hi guys! Help! I'm not experienced user. I need a very cheap discrete video card for my computer which take part in video rendering (accelerating) in order to render videos faster. As far as I understand - I need nvidia, but will for example very cheap gt 710 2 gb, gddr5, take part in finishing video rendering to do it faster and if yes then how faster that finish rendering (%) than without it? I need it for a few weeks replacing it with another videocard, so I don't want to spend much. Thank you!

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Ann Bens
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May 2, 2020

Gt 720 wont do anything but just sit there.

 

Check the list of supported cards.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC System Requirements

 

Nvidia and AMD are not supported for accelerted encoding for h264/hvec yet.

 

May 2, 2020

I know the list of recommended video cards my question to experienced users is: what is the cheapest way for temporary computer? Which descrete video card is cheapest for rendering videos? Not for any comfort performance, but for SOME acceleration of rendering process. Sorry, maybe I explain very bad what I mean as English is not my native language. Video cards cost a lot of money in some countries having huge price difference from one class performance to another.

Legend
May 2, 2020

Actually, the GT 710 is completely useless for GPU acceleration - to the point where it might actually be even slower and weaker than software-only (CPU-only) rendering. And what's more, almost all GT 710s only come with extremely slow DDR3 RAM that's actually slower and more constrained than even your PC's main system RAM! That severely bottlenecks the performance of even everyday apps - those that don't even utilize the GPU at all whatsoever. These actually decelerate overall system performance, to the point where overall performance would actually be as slow as or slower than a mainstream system that's 14 years old. I would not take the GT 710 even if it were completely free. And to top that off, driver support will be EOL'd for all remaining Kepler desktop GPUs, including that GT 710, within the next few months (with the GPU support first going into the legacy support phase while driver improvements will continue with Maxwell and newer GPUs).

 

And even a newer GT 1030, despite being more powerful than that GT 710 (which IMHO is now a total waste of money at any price), still barely performs on a par with current integrated Intel UHD Graphics. That makes it a waste of money at its current street price.

 

So, if those cheap GPUs totally suck (or at the very least a ripoff at their current street prices), then what to get?

 

You will not like my answer, but you will have to spend at least triple that budget just to get a GPU that does not slow down your overall system performance.