Will adding a RTX3060 12gb GPU card help with timeline performance, grading, tweaking effects, etc ?

Ah youre actually right. Small upgrades never pay off. Only when a everything is new and completely overhauled to a new rig only then do we see "some" relevant difference. But will this 3060 surely sustain thru ? but again this wont work to full potential on PCIe5 right ? Then the card becomes the cripple when everything else is changed.

On a side note does the AM5 platform really mean a huge step up for Pr and Ae ? If processor / mobo / ram is all pcie5 and with a PCIe5 graphics card (but those must cost extremely high right).

The RTX 3060 is about the best that I can recommend at this time as a stopgap solution, and one that can be carried over to a newer build.

The problem with the OP's system is the Ryzen 7 5700G itself. It does not support PCI-e 4.0 at all — only PCI-e 3.0. Thus, many of the newer GPUs will be bottlenecked by the lower-throughput PCI-e bus in addition to the weaker CPU.

I know the OP is trying to stay within budget, but the planned RTX 3060 is at current street prices too expensive for the modest performance that it delivers. Unfortunately, the only available Nvidia choices that are priced around the same price point have less VRAM (only 8 GB total) than that RTX 3060, which makes the shortcomings of the 5700G's PCI-e 3.0 bus bandwidth even more evident since any rendering project which requires more VRAM than what's on the graphics card must now go through the slower, older bus to the page file drive (that system's main SSD, which is much slower than any type of system RAM). And that is one of the biggest failings of having an AMD APU, which sacrifices total PCI-e bandwidth and throughput in favor of giving a little more power to the integrated GPU. A very similar problem occurs with the newer Ryzen 8000G series APUs for socket AM5, which not only restricts PCI-e speed to PCI-e 4.0 clocks (versus PCI-e 5.0 with the non-APU Ryzen 7000 and 9000 series CPUs, most of which do include a very basic onboard GPU), but also the lane bandwidth to only eight lanes for the primary GPU slot (versus a full 16 lanes for the non-APU Ryzens).

As a result, the OP is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to adding a GPU to that system today; its performance will never come close to fully utilizing even a modest GPU such as that planned RTX 3060 — and that forces the owner into a choice of either going way over-budget for a meaningful performance increase over his/her current config or settling for performance that still falls below that of today's budget PCs. Then again, almost anything will be a big improvement over the 5700G's now-outdated integrated graphics that only offers the most basic of hardware H.264/HEVC decoding (8-bit 4:2:0 only) and may not support hardware encoding of any kind.

Hi Thanks. But pointing me to large articles is not so helpful as i found very similar articles on google searches and thru AI and have read so much and all conflicting info that doesnt assure adding this card will be a positive or a negative. So i finally came here, as here we have only people who are using Pr with some kind of card. I was hoping to hear simple YES IT WORKS WELL for me kind of assurances from those who have this card (and theres great possibility many must be using it here bec it was the go to card for many video editors). Also other users might suggest an equivalently priced or segment card that is doing well on their system. Hearing this i can make an informed buying decision.

Well its nice that youve posted these links. But i read a few of these an nothing conclusively points me to making a buying decision on a card asap. I need to be an EXPERT like you to read that and understand.

On a side note if you know the answer im looking for is there. It means youve read those completely and understand the tech talk going on in there. So why dont you just tell me what you feel, if this card is a good fit for Pr or not. You would be helping me a lot by just chiming in your 2 cents.

Hi, I posted in the VIDEO HARDWARE forum. Was that the wrong forum ? I think i also chose HARDWARE & GPU. But thanks for moving it to the right one anyway.