Computer setup for Vegas 23 and 8K render

PanLeon wrote on 12/25/2025, 4:59 PM

Hi everyone, My name is Rafal and I create videos for my YouTube channel. I render videos up to 4K 50fps (but I'm also slowly thinking about rendering 8K).
The cameras I use give me 4K, 50fps, and a bitrate of 127mb/s.
The editing software is Vegas 22.

Computer configuration:

Motherboard
ASRock B860M V2
Processor
Intel Core 5 Ultra Series 2 (LGA 1851)
RAM
32GB DDR5
Graphics card
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

I use Intel QSV for rendering, although it's faster than using a graphics card (NV Encoder)
My graphics card is obviously old, and I'm considering upgrading it. I've heard that Vegas prefers Radeon over Nvidia. Is this true?
Is it worth upgrading my graphics card and rendering with it, or is it better to continue rendering videos with the CPU? I was thinking about buying a Radeon RX 7800 XT Gaming OC 16GB GDDR6 or something a bit more expensive.

Thank you for your help.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 12/25/2025, 5:51 PM

You can see my signature for two benchmarks with various GPUs.

Your GPU isn't really old and has enough VRAM. NVIDIA has the best decoding performance with VEGAS and while QSV can be very fast for rendering, I find the quality worse than NVENC and don't use it.