Dual monitor 4k + 2500x1400, which GPU???

F.C.G. wrote on 9/8/2015, 3:30 AM

Hello all

Which is the best card for sony vegas and dual monitor configuration?

I currently have AMD 260x 2gb, and I've been told it wont support that high resolution displays and i would require 4gb memory....

I've looking at nvidia GTX 970 mini itx 4gb, small, quiet, but there seems to be a problem with sony vegas not supporting that nvidia GPUs....

So.... which one to choose that works fine with vegas???

Thanks

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/8/2015, 5:49 AM

You're going to have to look at the specs for the cards and find out the max resolution they can support. I'm guessing a consumer card won't like that res, you'll need to go for a workstation card, but I didn't look at the specs. Or you could be spending hundreds of dollars on a GPU to support that resolution.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/8/2015, 7:10 AM

I agree with HappyFriar. I sure wouldn't try to edit video with 2 gigs of RAM. That's barely enough to run Windows! You'll want at least 4 gigs of RAM.

In fact, you may well find your whole system taxed pretty heavily editing video on dual monitors with that processor -- which by AMD 260 I assume you mean the AMD Athlon X2 260. As you can see from this chart, this processor rates about 1800. I'd recommend that, for a good editing experience, you rate at least 5000.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/mid_range_cpus.html

That said, adding that GTX graphics card may give you the ability to run a dual monitor system. But just be aware that adding a GTX card will likely require you also to upgrade the power supply on your system. Those are pretty hefty graphics cards!

So you may be getting just about as much juice as you can get out of a system that's really designed more for basic computer work, like word processing and web browsing. If you're able to edit video on it, that's great. But I wouldn't expect to squeeze much more out of it by connecting additional hardware.

F.C.G. wrote on 9/8/2015, 8:10 AM

I didnt explain very good....

My system is an i7 with 32gb of RAM, SSD, hdd....

The graphic card is a Radeon 260x with 2gb of memory....

The question was if that card would be able to handle dual monitor configuration, one of them with 4k resolution, the other one with 2500x1400 resolution..

Or would i need a graphic card with 4gb memory?

Thanks and sorry for the missunderstood

OldSmoke wrote on 9/8/2015, 8:53 AM

[I]The question was if that card would be able to handle dual monitor configuration, one of them with 4k resolution, the other one with 2500x1400 resolution.[/I]

You would have to lookup the specs of your card but I doubt it will.

astar wrote on 9/10/2015, 5:44 PM

That Radeon 260x is only inches above an HD5770 in hardware. My guess is IF the display adapter will do 4K, it will not play 4K video well. That means it may display a 4k desktop to work in say Photoshop, but not edit video. But let us know how it works out.

What version of I7 do you have?