My experience - nVidia GTX video cards work much better with Power Director. I bought a RX470, but I got frustrated with how PD worked with it. Returned it and bought GTX1060 My next CPU will be Ryzen or Thread Ripper, but I will stick with nVidia video card for Power Director. Intel i7 4770k, 16GB, GTX1060 3GB, Two 240GB SSD, 4TB HD, Sony HDR-TD20V 3D camcorder, Sony SLT-A65VK for still images, Windows 10 Pro, 64bit
Gary Russell -- TN USA

Thanks Gary, funny you should say that as a during my last PC upgrade I tried putting an Radeon card in with my Intel i5 2500k and it would just randomly crash and the system would sometimes not even boot. Tried returning the card and they could not fault it after running it though all same sort of heavy GPU stress testing where it was crashing for me. Ended up Ebaying the Radeon and getting the GTX 970 I have now which has been very solid. Had always put it down to some sort of intel/Nvidia/Radeon incompatibility, perhaps it wasn't that after all.

I would keep the GTX 970, however it has pretty limited support for encoding/decoding modern codecs. Was there anything in particular that would happen when using the RX 470 with PowerDirector? Was it crashing, freezing, slow performance, all of the above?

With PD, I do a LOT of transcoding HD TV MPEG2 files to MP4. Never did get the RX470 to use hardware acceleration with MP4. That alone was enough for me to return it. I don't game so didn't test that and never crashed. Intel i7 4770k, 16GB, GTX1060 3GB, Two 240GB SSD, 4TB HD, Sony HDR-TD20V 3D camcorder, Sony SLT-A65VK for still images, Windows 10 Pro, 64bit
Gary Russell -- TN USA

Quote Thanks Gary, funny you should say that as a during my last PC upgrade I tried putting an Radeon card in with my Intel i5 2500k and it would just randomly crash and the system would sometimes not even boot. Tried returning the card and they could not fault it after running it though all same sort of heavy GPU stress testing where it was crashing for me.

That does seem like that the pc power supply is not rated for the power requirement of the Radeon card.

Did occur to me, however from memory I had a Seasonic 650W gold PSU at the time which I thought should have been sufficient. as asside from the CPU at 95W max there was nothing else that should have been drawing much power in the system. Anyway the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 OC Mini I ended up with drew about 150W at full load and remains rock solid to this day, can't imagine the Radeon option requiring significantly more power.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I've been told on other forums that PowerDirector works better with Nvidia anyway. With Gary's experience plus the fact the AMD Vega GPUS's are out at the end of the year which will be VCE 4 I think I will stick it out with the the GTX970 for now. Will help with the finances too, buying CPU, ram, motherboard and 250GB M.2 drive is leaving a dint as it is.