Graphics card suggestions

JRey wrote on 1/22/2023, 9:34 AM

After a long sunday afternoon seems like my graphics card has died. Currently its Navida GTX 970 but I seem to recall AMD could be better for Vegas. Budget £300 ish, so nothing fancy and it needs to get on well with a Gigabyte mother board. Specs below. Any advice gratefully received.

Vegas Pro 18 Build 527

Operating System
Platform: Windows 10.0 (64-bit)
Version: 10.00.19044
Language: English
System locale: English
User locale: English

Processor
Class: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Identifier: GenuineIntel
Number of processors: 8
MMX available: Yes
SSE available: Yes
SSE2 available: Yes
SSE3 available: Yes
SSSE3 available: Yes
SSE4.1 available: Yes
SSE4.2 available: Yes

Graphics

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Driver version: 30.0.15.1179

GPU is Optimal - NVIDIA

Comments

fr0sty wrote on 1/22/2023, 9:36 AM

When choosing your GPU, your power supply is also important. Make sure you have plenty of headroom over what that GPU will require available... For instance, under full load, my Nvidia RTX 3090 will draw about 350watts of power... so I'd want a bare minimum of double that (BARE minimum, 1kw recommended). Gotta leave plenty of power for the CPU/motherboard, hard drives, disc drives, and still leave some headroom.

8GB VRAM or more is recommeneded for 4k, I'd recommend a bit more, 12GB min.

JRey wrote on 1/22/2023, 9:45 AM

Thanks @fr0sty I have 760 watts to play with. Actually do you know if Nivida GPU actually works with Vegas?

fr0sty wrote on 1/22/2023, 9:55 AM

My Nvidia GPU works great, but as you mentioned, in our benchmarks we've collected around here, the AMD cards do hold an edge over the Nvidia cards, typically when paired with Intel systems that also have their own onboard iGPU to assist in decoding the video on the timeline.

Your PSU should suffice for a mid-range GPU. Just don't get a 4090, you'll need a new case to fit it in, and your own power sub-station built in your back yard to power it. It's so ridiculously big that your motherboard plugs into it, not the other way around. 1000w is a bare, bare minimum to power these cards... and they have a tendency to catch on fire due to faulty connectors.

JRey wrote on 1/22/2023, 10:15 AM

That just made a bad day a whole lot better. Very funny :) Just watched the video and I se what you mean, I could move in there...

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 1/22/2023, 1:34 PM

... Just don't get a 4090, you'll need a new case to fit it in, and your own power sub-station built in your back yard to power it. It's so ridiculously big that your motherboard plugs into it, not the other way around. 1000w is a bare, bare minimum to power these cards... and they have a tendency to catch on fire due to faulty connectors.

Now I want one! Good thing I can't afford it. In all seriousness however, I understand the fan assembly is what makes it so big and that aio versions that don't need all the steel solve the size issue... this review by the same guy illustrates that:

I wouldn't go for the msi solution myself, however. It's their 1st aio and I don't think they got their head wrapped around it yet. The size is right but performance falls below an Asus air-cooled which just isn't right. I have an AMD 6900xt aio which is much more power efficient and it uses a triple radiator. So perhaps the msi double on their 4090 is literally not cool enough. Or they intentionally gelded it as suggested in the review. I do lust for one of these however, but am more inclined to wait for Asus or, better yet, Sapphire to do it right.

fr0sty wrote on 1/22/2023, 2:29 PM

I want one too... the ray tracing CGI stuff I could do with one of those, my 3090 is already mind blowing at it...

JRey wrote on 1/23/2023, 4:12 AM

Guys

Thanks for your help and advice but I think I just found my new card. NVIDIA TITAN V has the power of 12 GB HBM2 memory and 640 Tensor Cores, delivering 110 TeraFLOPS of performance. Plus, it features Volta-optimized NVIDIA CUDA for maximum results and a Cryo genic cooling core. Unboxing video below...

Actually removed the Cmos battery last night, sorted Bios on boot up and behold my card has returned.

mofobo wrote on 1/23/2023, 4:41 PM

I'm using a 4090 with a 7950x.
Trust me, Vegas isn't utilizing either piece of hardware to their potential at all.

3060ti is a good card for Vegas at the moment.

hambonio wrote on 1/23/2023, 5:45 PM

I'm using a 4090 with a 7950x.
Trust me, Vegas isn't utilizing either piece of hardware to their potential at all.

3060ti is a good card for Vegas at the moment.

I have a RTX-3090 paired with a 7950x and it runs no better than my system with an RTX-3060 paired with a 3900x