[SOLVED] What's a good graphic card for general purposes (home video edition, watching movies, NOT gaming)

[ademarfj]

Does anyone have any suggestion on a general purpose graphic card , good yet affordable? Its use will be home video edition (not professional, using Vegas), photos editing (using Lightroom), watching movies on PC... I am not a game enthusiast, then I don't need more expensive NVidia RTX 30xx boards, which I guess are too much for me.

 

[Inthrutheoutdoor]

A GTX 1660 8Gb should be fine for those uses, assuming that you have adequate ram (16GB) and a fairly recent CPU.

But now is a really, really bad time to buy a GPU due to shortages & outrageous prices, but the 1660 is one of the most affordable decent cards available right now

 

[Aeacus]

good yet affordable?

If not gaming, then GTX 1050 Ti, GTX 1650. And on AMD side: RX 470 or RX 570.

All are solid for 1080p usage.

Edit: GTX 1660 is better than the 4 i suggested above but also costs more and is geared more towards gaming use. Personally, i have GTX 1660 TI in use and i can game on 1080p with 144 FPS just fine, with high/ultra settings. So, for web browsing, image edit, light video edit etc, GTX 1650 would be tops. RX 570 could be better since it has more VRAM, helpful for video editing.

Though, it's true that GPU prices are really bad right now. GPU that should cost ~100 bucks is currently ~300 bucks,
pcpp: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=380,443,500,377,376,392&sort=price

 

[ademarfj]

Thanks for the replies