Novice Video Editing Hardware Question

demon8991 · 10 Nov 2020 at 07:20

Hi All,

I am currently building a new PC for gaming and productivity such as coding, Power Bi and Video Editing.

I have secured a 5900X with 32Gb of 3600mhz RAM and will looking for a flagship Nvidia or AMD card when I can get my hands on one.

I would like to know if Premiere and Resolve can make use of AMD Graphics Cards as with the current Nivida shortage this could very well be a viable option if they stack up well against the 3000 series.

iamtheoneneo · 10 Nov 2020 at 10:01

Yes the Mercury engine can use CUDA or OpenCL. You need 6Gb of VRAM for 4k accelerated rendering.

Unless your Steven Spielberg your not going to see any perceived difference between the two brands when editing.

demon8991 · 10 Nov 2020 at 10:20

Awesome thanks so much.

For some reason I thought Resolve and Premiere preferred Nvidia cards so this is really good to know.

Sirrel Squirrel · 10 Nov 2020 at 11:59

Resolve prefers Nvidia cards, an Nvidia 2060 performs better than a 5700XT for example.

Check out this link - https://www.pugetsystems.com/recomm...t=As long as you are,that when adding a third.

Donnie Fisher · 11 Nov 2020 at 08:44

The charts are a little skewed in the theyre showing top level multiple cards versus a single AMD which makes them look particularly poor on the chart.

Personally, Resolve seems to like vram, so I think that the new AMD cards may stand up reasonably well.

demon8991 · 11 Nov 2020 at 10:29

OK thanks, that is good to know. I hope the new AMD cards don't have an NDA until release date again like Ryzen.

Really want to see some performance figures and I need to know what will fit in my NZXT H1.

ethan · 12 Nov 2020 at 23:24

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Resolve prefers Nvidia cards, an Nvidia 2060 performs better than a 5700XT for example.

Check out this link - https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-DaVinci-Resolve-187/Hardware-Recommendations#:~:text=As long as you are,that when adding a third.

let me just add that a RTX 2080ti performs a bit quicker for video rendering that a RTX 3070. There's a video on Google somewhere. Maybe a 2nd hand one would be in order?

Edit: Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkB9EwlvhMA&list=PLvv4g7UMnnE2Z_Ju7g2Z46HM6zziAezUj

Sirrel Squirrel · 13 Nov 2020 at 12:03

ethan said:
let me just add that a RTX 2080ti performs a bit quicker for video rendering that a RTX 3070. There's a video on Google somewhere. Maybe a 2nd hand one would be in order?

Edit: Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkB9EwlvhMA&list=PLvv4g7UMnnE2Z_Ju7g2Z46HM6zziAezUj

Just checked the charts in the Puget link again and it shows the 2080Ti outperforming a 3090

edit/ ignore, what I just said, I was looking at dual 2080Ti's vs a single 3090.

demon8991 · 13 Nov 2020 at 12:21

Interesting, really not sure whether to get an AMD card or not.

Video editing won't be a massive thing but certainly something that the PC is used for.

Sirrel Squirrel · 13 Nov 2020 at 12:52

demon8991 said:
Interesting, really not sure whether to get an AMD card or not.

Video editing won't be a massive thing but certainly something that the PC is used for.

Probably worth waiting for the AMD 6000 cards to be released, which will take advantage of your 5900X and checking the benchmarks then.

demon8991 · 13 Nov 2020 at 12:53

My only concern is avalibility to be honest. If it is anything like the 3000 series launch I will be without a GPU for months if I wait too long.

Sirrel Squirrel · 13 Nov 2020 at 21:43

I guess you could try and find a 2080Ti going cheap but no one yet knows what availability will be like on the AMD 6000 cards.

AyeAyeAhoy! · 3 Dec 2020 at 21:43

I'm a professional video editor cutting broadcast TV docs, and I use an iMac with a Radeon Pro 5700 XT, 10th Gen 5ghz i7 & 64 GB RAM

Works brilliantly.

Sirrel Squirrel · 4 Dec 2020 at 19:03

doug_1986 said:
I'm a professional video editor cutting broadcast TV docs, and I use an iMac with a Radeon Pro 5700 XT, 10th Gen 5ghz i7 & 64 GB RAM

Works brilliantly.

Going by some reviews and YouTube videos you could probably just buy an M1 Mac Mini, which is probably cheaper than the latest graphics card and get some brilliant performance

Spleen Sauce · 4 Dec 2020 at 19:26

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Going by some reviews and YouTube videos you could probably just buy an M1 Mac Mini, which is probably cheaper than the latest graphics card and get some brilliant performance

If you're happy to use Final Cut, definitely.

AyeAyeAhoy! · 4 Dec 2020 at 19:44

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Going by some reviews and YouTube videos you could probably just buy an M1 Mac Mini, which is probably cheaper than the latest graphics card and get some brilliant performance

My Edit Assistant picked one up last week, so we have that in the suite. It does a good job - an amazing job actually considering the price, but my 2020 iMac does indeed wipe the floor with it in real world use. I'm using 35gb .PSD files directly on my Premiere timeline, no problem. The mini, no chance.

Premiere on it is also not nearly stable enough yet for my use, and the lack of 10GbE is an annoyance.

He has it chugging through media in Resolve all day, and for that it's fab. And again, for the price, nothing can touch it. Comparing a £700 mini to a £4k iMac is nothing short of utterly unfair!