[SOLVED] Best PCIe 3.0 Graphics Card ?

[weinerschizel]

I have a video editing build. I run Magix Vegas. Have been using the software for over 10 years now. Latest build supports GPUs, however, my GPU is starting to show it's age and current rendering bottleneck. It's completely maxed out. I want to update the graphics card (or buy a second one and link it). However, I want it to be compatible with my system. No plans to update anything else as it's got lots of headroom to grow other than the graphics card.

Essentially I'm looking for a great value PCIe 3.0 graphics card with lots of performance.

Would be nice to know what is the top shelf PCIe 3.0 graphic card one can buy as well.

Current Build Specs:

• Windows 10 Ultimate running Vegas 20 Pro
• i7-6950x 3.0Ghrz 10 Core Processor Liquid Cooled
• ASRock Fatality X99M Killer LGA2011-v3 mainboard w/ Intel X99 chipset
• 1x MSI Radeon RX 480 GDDR5 8GB (2304 Stream Processor Units)
• 64GB DDR4 2133 Memory
• LG IPS 4k 10-bit display model 31MU97
• Samsung 950 Pro 512GB M.2 Main Drive
• Samsung 850 Pro SSD 1TB capture scratch Drive

 

[kognak]

Just get PCIe 4.0 card, there's zero issues on PCIe 3.0 platform. Last PCIe 3.0 cards are already 4-5 years old, that's second hand market stuff. I suggested to buy a discounted Radeon with good cooler right now. Starting from RX 6600. HW encoders are same in each generation, not really worth to buy higher tier card. Newer is better what comes to video encoding.