I would like some help to set up a computer.
I am making non-professional videos for an association, lasting between 10 and 20 minutes.
Today they have no videos inserted, and their time is divided more or less by 20% of it being a black background with white writing (some fade in / out effects), a standard song in the background of all their time, and the 80% remaining is always a person speaking, and still images on the screen. These images stay for about 1 to 2 minutes on the screen, always moving, and there is a transition between them so that it is not so simple. The video I'm going to use as an example is 14 minutes and 23 seconds, which I made today.
I am using an 8th generation Core i5 notebook, with two cores (4 threads) of 1.72 ghz, 8Mb RAM 2666 Mhz, SSD and a 2 Gb NVidia MX 230 card.
When rendering this video, these are the times (all using the GPU and 25 fps):
- HD: 6 minutes and 10 seconds
- Full HD: 20 minutes and 20 seconds
- 4K: I stopped rendering in 15 seconds because the processor temperature reached 98º C and then stabilized between 80 and 90 degrees. But it should take more than an hour, and that will force this processor a lot.
The computer I am assembling is almost ready, with only the video card missing. It will have 32 Gb RAM 3200 Mhz and Ryzen 9 5900X processor. I didn't want to spend a lot on video cards, because I don't play games or make professional videos. With a setup like this, if I put an 8Gb RX 5500XT video card, will the gain with time be great in relation to my notebook? If instead of putting the RX to use an Nvidia RTX, would it change a lot? Is the time you save worth the price difference? For example, if it is going to render a video in 4K and with the RX 5500 XT it would take 10 minutes, and with an RTX 3090 that same video would be rendered in 6, for me that I am not a professional these 4 minutes do not justify the price difference.