Radeon RX 460 and timeline preview

kplo schrieb am 24.02.2017 um 19:18 Uhr

Hi All,

Just built a new box for Vegas 11. Asus z170-A mobo, i7 6700k w/16GB ram running Win 7 64. I edit 1080p HD (no 4k yet). I'm interested in smooth timeline preview out, rendering speed is secondary, so I'm not really concerned with the unique codecs that benefit from open CL heavy lifting. Will the Radeon RX 260 4GB handle a few streams of HD playback (no heavy FX, just CC) at 29.97? Yes, I'd like to have a 470 or 480, but the 260 hits my budget right now. Currently using the Intel HD 530 onboard video and that just isn't cutting it.

Any advice and/or experience greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ken

Kommentare

NickHope schrieb am 25.02.2017 um 06:51 Uhr

I assume you meant to write "460" in your post, not "260" (twice)?

I haven't read any reports about the RX460; only the RX470 and 480. The 460 is quite a lot less powerful but it should still play relatively nicely with Vegas and give you some reasonable acceleration for 1080p.

On a tight budget it might be worth looking at a used R9 390X/390/290X/290 off eBay etc.. I haven't studied how the spec numbers compare to the RX460.

Don't neglect the other ways you can make preview smoother.

astar schrieb am 25.02.2017 um 08:09 Uhr

The 460 should fall in between a 5770 and 6970. Both meet Vegas requirements for OpenCL timeline acceleration.

290x are about 200.00 ib ebay right now, the next card down to get would be the 7970-Ghz for about 100.00. The 7970-ghz would have about 2X the opencl compute power of the RX460. The 460 however has all the latest game features support.

kplo schrieb am 25.02.2017 um 18:26 Uhr

Thank you both for the info. The 460 4gb I'm looking at is $102 after rebate. The used R9 390 cards on ebay are at least twice that. I don't game at all, so this will likely suffice until the next gen architecture comes out.

Thanks again.

Ken

igniz-krizalid schrieb am 26.02.2017 um 05:12 Uhr

I was gonna say buy RX460 at least (470 would better) but since you use VP11 it don't matter if you use an older card, as long as it is AMD R9380,290,390 or whatever cause you don't need full 10bit HEVC support encoding and decoding that Polaris have