Graphics card for photo and video editing

[splendid11]

Hello!

A friend is setting up a photography and video store and I was tasked with building a PC for the new store.

I have never built a PC for photo and video editing, I usually build them for gaming, office work, etc.

I know it needs a good processor + memory but does it need a decent graphics card?

Best regards!

[whoololon]

With a GT 740 or a GTX 750 (a GTX 660 at most), which offer a resolution of 4096x2160 on HDMI, is more than enough.
Basically, an i7 4490 and a heatsink, one of the graphics above, 16 GB RAM (G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1866 for example), a couple of 250 GB SSDs and a good 27" monitor.
Apart from its DVD/Blu-Ray burner and card reader.
Finished, assembled and working, about 1,500 € on the high side, a good team for professional use without going crazy.

[Javisoft]

Totally agree XD, if you want something more powerful go to socket 2011-3 although it goes up quite a bit in budget, only if you edit a lot of video and in large quantities, if it's moderate the 1150 platform with a well-overclocked i7 will give you good performance.
Regards.

[ferelxyx]

Intel Core i7-4790 3.6Ghz - 315 euros
Asrock Fatal1ty H97 Performance - 115 euros
G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1866 PC3-14900 16GB 2x8GB CL9 - 135 euros
Cryorig H5 Universal - Fan/Cooler - 48 euros
Asus Radeon R7 250X 1GB GDDR5 - 110 euros

a solid state drive of 250Gb for the S.O, others to store type grenn

power supply and case to taste and space

and you already have a decent computer for video and photos

if the graphic files are going to be very large in resolution and other things, you can put two sets of the memories and have 32 Gb

regards

[Namiga]

Well, I think like the colleagues…
Big CPU, the most you can afford
16Gb... those Snipers are a joke
SSD... for the operative at least..

The graphics???... There we have the crux of the matter
I, personally... the least powerful. Save there and spend it on CPU, RAM or motherboard...
If it's only Photoshop... WATCH OUT....
Although there are many plugins that use CUDA if available, 99% of mortals don't use it...

The video issue is "different". The graphics acceleration is important for certain things... and here I give you my assessment due to my experience...

Premiere (I don't know if the rest of the programs do it) takes advantage of CUDA and OpenCL. Although there are "official" cards for that, any will do...
They had always said that CUDA was better than OpenCL... I think the opposite. The truth is that CUDA was better because it was the ONLY one before OpenCL.

The reality... My reality. My equipment is a q6600 with 6Gb of DDR2 ram. A job that took my CPU more than 8 hours to encode... a "humble" ATI 5850 took an hour and a half in OpenCL....
For a special job I was able to buy a card with decent CUDA. I'm talking about a GTX 760 of 2gb.
The same job took almost two hours and a quarter :wall::wall:

What do I mean by this???.... that if you buy an NVIDIA graphics card with many CUDA cores you will have good acceleration in that regard... but get into more than 300 € of graphics... when an ATI 5850 is going to do the same for about 60 € on the high side second-hand
Looking at the new ATIs... I would go for an 7950 before a low R9

Anyway, I hope to be of help.
Regards