Question I need advice on a graphics card upgrade for my older system ?

[soloalpinist]

Hello Friends
I recently signed up for the Adobe Cloud products and apparently my Graphics Card is not compatible with the latest Photoshop and Premiere etc. My system is an older one and I need to use it awhile longer... I can't afford a new build just now. I'm looking for advice on a Graphics Card that will work with my system an be affordable.

I run a dual boot of Windows 7 & Windows 10.

Here is info on my current system:
PC Motherboard is an Asus P9X79 Pro
Processor is an Intel i7-3930 CPU3.2GHz,
I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Power Supply is 760W PCIE slot version 3.0
Gurrent Graphics Card is Nvidia GTX 760

I don't do any gaming. I simply need a Graphics Card that will work with the Adobe Products, DaVinci Resolve, etc.

Cost is definitely a factor ....as to move up to Windows 11 in the future apparently I'll need a different system... so I want something economical to get me by for now.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

What is your budget actually ? And how much current system memory/RAM are you having ?

If you’re going to spend a lot of money on one thing for DaVinci Resolve, spend it on a graphics card. DaVinci Resolve is incredibly reliant on the GPU, especially if you have the Studio version of Resolve. The Studio version of Resolve can also use more than one graphics card at a time which is amazing for high-quality footage and effects.

How about getting the GTX 1660 Super, or maybe even the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 are great midrange options. For Adobe Creative Cloud, I will give some more options below after some time.

 

[soloalpinist]

What is your budget actually ? And how much current system memory/RAM are you having do you have?

If you’re going to spend a lot of money on one thing for DaVinci Resolve, spend it on a graphics card. DaVinci Resolve is incredibly reliant on the GPU, especially if you have the Studio version of Resolve. The Studio version of Resolve can also use more than one graphics card at a time which is amazing for high-quality footage and effects.

How about getting the GTX 1660 Super, or maybe even the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 are great midrange options. For Adobe Creative Cloud, I will give some more options below after some time.

Thanks for getting back to me! I've been considering the GTX 1660 Super and the RTX 3060 (which has 12GB of GDR6 Memory vs the 6GB of the 1660 Super) The 1660 Super is more in my budget but I could possibly stretch for the RTX 3060/3060 ti if there's a significant performance boost over the 1660 Super for my specific needs.

Oh... and my current system has 64GB of RAM

 

[thestryker]

Does it not run or just give a warning message? It has the requirements, but Adobe mentions they don't test with any card over 7 years old so I'm not sure if that's a hard lock. The GTX 760 isn't getting driver updates anymore (aside from security releases here and there) so that may also factor.

If you're looking at new cards AMD is definitely going to win on price, but support may be better with nvidia.

If you think you'll be doing work in 4k I believe 8GB VRAM is basically minimum.

On the budget side the RTX 3050 is now down to low enough prices to be a decent deal (currently around $220 in the US) and it'll be better than any of the 1660s.

 

[robertfixit]

I like my 1060, it was cheap used. You could even get a 1030 which everyone hates for games, but maybe you can find one on the cheap.
Of course if you get a 1660, it would easily carry over to the new system.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

Thanks for getting back to me! I've been considering the GTX 1660 Super and the RTX 3060 (which has 12GB of GDR6 Memory vs the 6GB of the 1660 Super) The 1660 Super is more in my budget but I could possibly stretch for the RTX 3060/3060 ti if there's a significant performance boost over the 1660 Super for my specific needs. Oh... and my current system has 64GB of RAM

That's enough RAM for these applications. If you can afford either the RTX 3060/3060 Ti then that would be much better.

Let's take a slightly different approach for Adobe Creative Cloud. This may also apply to Davinci though, if you can afford these GPUs.

For GPU acceleration, an NVIDIA Quadro P4000 with 8 GB, NVIDIA Quadro RTX4000 with 8 GB/2304 CUDA cores, or an NVIDIA RTX A2000 with 6 GB VRAM as an entry-level graphics card is also a good choice.

A good alternative from AMD would be the RadeonPro W6600 with 8 GB and 1792 streaming processors. NVIDIA Geforce RTX series graphics cards, such as the NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060, 3070, or RTX3080, also work well with Adobe CC.

But for more complex and heavy scenes, the latest RTX series perform the best. Like the RTX A2000 with 12 GB, RTX A4000 with 16 GB VRAM or a RTX A5000 with 24 GB VRAM.

 

[Avro Arrow]

If I were you, I would definitely be looking at the RTX 3060 12GB. I really think that the amount of VRAM for that price makes it a no-brainer among GeForce offerings.

Adobe says that Premiere Pro needs a card with at least 4GB of VRAM and at least 8GB for After Effects 22.0 to make things like rendering and export faster and smoother. I think that the 12GB would be very beneficial to you and it's one of the few GeForce cards that won't bankrupt you.

There's also a huge second-hand market for the RTX 3060 because a lot of them were used for mining. Now, a card that has been used for mining is not necessarily in bad condition and you can usually find them for a really low price even if they're in very good condition.

Here, I found one on eBay for $320CAD ($240USD):
EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC GAMING 12GB - $320CAD

Even if you're not in Canada, this at least gives you some idea of what they're going for in the used market.