GPU Upgrade (Radeon R9 390)

Craig-Rogers wrote on 12/17/2021, 8:00 AM

Hi all,

Here are the specs of my Photo/Video Editing Windows 10 PC......

CPU : AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

RAM : 32gb

HDDs : 2xSSD (One for OS and Apps and another with Work In Progress video and photo files)

GPU : Asus Strix Radeon R9 390 8gb

Vegas : 19 Edit

 

The GPU is now getting a bit old, I think it is from 2015 and I've always had a lot of GPU crashes when using all versions of Vegas and just doesn't seem up to the job (it's not great in Photoshop and Lightroom either). The driver is up to date, but still I don't have a good trust with it.

The question is if I will see a large gain by upgrading to an NVIDIA RTX 3060 or 3070 8gb or even a GTX 1660 but I think the max ram is only 6gb.

Be great to hear your thoughts.

 

Comments

RogerS wrote on 12/17/2021, 8:28 AM

Try benchmarking your system here and see the results for how it compares to systems with similar CPUs and better GPUs.

Techgage also has a few GPU comparison tests using Vegas in recent articles. https://techgage.com/ Of course GPU cost and availability are still serious issues. As far as how much ram do you need, what are you editing?

Craig-Rogers wrote on 12/17/2021, 8:37 AM

Yes, of course, getting hold of one might be an issue right now......

Mainly I'm shooting Real Estate Videos and although I usually render down to 1080, I often shoot at 4K with the drone to give me some cropping space.

Thanks for the benchmark link, I'll give it a run.

Former user wrote on 12/17/2021, 9:55 AM

@Craig-Rogers Def check out the Benhchmark RogerS suggested, there's spreadsheets in there showing render & playback times,

In my old PC i had a GTX 1660 super which is 6GB, it was an 'ok' card but i would dismiss that,

Depending on how your PC performs now compared to the Benchmark, I wouldn't expect a 'large gain' by upgrading, I'm still waiting for Vegas to update to a more powerful engine that utilises the full potential of my PC, I'm not complaining i'm just say don't expect wonders because you've spent £100s on a new GPU, there's been a couple of comments by people saying Vegas is struggling to do some simple tasks while their GPU is just ticking along, hopefully Vegas will find a way one day,

& looking at the benchmark spreadsheets i wish i'd seen them earlier, i would prob have been tempted to get an rx6800xt instead, too late now so we'll never know,

& i stay away from HEVC files, AVC files play a lot better on mine

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 12/17/2021, 10:23 AM

@Craig-Rogers The latest Nvidia cards don't seem to do as well in that bench as those from Amd. I'm not sure that's generally reflective of editing in Vegas. But the latest Amd cards are more power efficient, less expensive, and more available. Unfortunately there are not any table entries for the 6600 or 6700 yet. So it's not clear how they might do as you go down the line. I can tell you that I have a 5700xt that has clocked in at 36 sec on that bench with an aging xeon cpu and would expect a 6700 to perform at least as well in a faster machine like yours.