EVGA GTX 960 4GB or Radeon R9 290X 4GB for PD13 4K video editing?

tpallred1

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Jul 21, 2015 06:16

Building a i7-4790K / Asus Z97-A 4K video editing system for PD13 and looking for a GPU in this price range. The info about nVidia cards being used to full advantage in PD13 is a little confusing but it looks like these later cards are okay(?). Will primarily, at least until 4K displays are in wider use, be rendering into 1080p. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Paul1945

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Jul 21, 2015 13:45

Hi tpallred1

Love mi 970 and after the new Update i7 all workas 100 %

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Salamand3r

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Jul 21, 2015 20:41

Recommend the 970. Although the 290X trades blows with the 970 in gaming, and the OpenCL support is still slightly faster than nVidia's, PowerDirector's OpenCL and AMD APP support is still rather crashy. Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 case | Ultra X4 850W PSU | Asrock Fatal1ty Killer 990FX | AMD FX8320@4.7gHz | Coolermaster Nepton 240m | 2x HIS R9 290 GPUs | 24gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600mHz DDR3 | OCZ ARC 100 480gb SSD | Various WD Black and Seagate drives to the tune of ~20tb | I have been building systems for over 16 years, however my opinions can be and sometimes are incorrect. Please, call me out if I say something asinine.

SoNic67

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Jul 21, 2015 21:33

GTX 960 is better for video editing, it has incorporated an extra h265 encoder that GTX970 doesn't have - it might prove useful in near future.

There is no reason to spend the money for a 970 on a video production PC, it has the same HD decoder with 960 and the extra CUDA cores... are not used anymore by Cyberlink.

Gaming on 4K? Then yes, get a 970. Gaming on 1080? 960 is plenty.
Also, the 4GB video memory is just not used on video editing. Maximum used is less than 2GB - and this when editing 4K videos.

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tpallred1

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Jul 21, 2015 22:09

Thanks guys. Since 4K video editing is all this build is for, sounds like the 2GB 960 is adequate. A penny saved is a penny spent toward some other part of the system! It looks like I can get the EVGA SuperSC ACX 2.0+ PN#02G-P4-2966-KR for $180 at Newegg so unless someone warns me off that's what I'll get. Tom
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Aldoxide

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Nov 23, 2015 03:53

gtx 970 has 'hardware video encoder' for h265 with current drivers (359.00)

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optodata

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Nov 23, 2015 18:31

Aldoxide, that's good info to know!

tpallred1, you may find that you won't need anything beyond your CPU's built-in HD Graphics. The 960 is a very good choice for any GPU-accelerated features (like FX and transitions) in PD, but if you're mostly doing basic editing you may find this *thread* of interest

tpallred1

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Nov 23, 2015 18:37

The 960 has been working great so far. I'm using PD14 for the 4K stuff. Thanks for the link. Tom
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JL_JL

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Nov 23, 2015 19:00

Quote: gtx 970 has 'hardware video encoder' for h265 with current drivers (359.00)

Quote: Aldoxide, that's good info to know!

As well as previous drivers, drivers before those, heck, drivers a year ago supported H.265 encoding for the GTX970. However, not with PD13 which is the referenced forum.

Jeff

Aldoxide

Member Joined: Mar 10, 2015 00:15 Messages: 51 Offline

Nov 23, 2015 19:08

@JL right! I missed that.

I guess since my contribution was kinda pointless... I can add that cuda cores are used better by other software...particularly the higher end software.

The gtx 970 has been out for a while now. I myself picked up the one I have for 200 bucks (used). This is about the retail price of the 960... something to consider. 4790K / Asus Z97i-Plus / 16gb (2-8gb)crucial @1866 Mhz / Samsung ssd 840 pro 250gb / Samsung 850 evo 250gb M.2 / 2-4tb HGST 7200rpm raid 1 / Nvidia GTX 1070 founders) / corsair RM650 PS / LG BD-RE