I am wondering, how much would make a decent GPU difference in Speed and quality of AIconversions?
running 12th gen i7 12700
128 ram
samsung 990pro 2tb
with no GPU.
What would be the best GPU to get?
Still doubting on Topaz and AVCLABS, what is the difference in output? I am planning to try trial versions of both and compare.
First of all, thank you for your interest in Video AI
For Graphics cards, I would strongly recommend a recent GPU that is branded for gaming, think RTX 3060 or 3090 (or higher).
More robust hardware will improve overall performance and processing speed. Your computer’s ability to process a video may be affected by the size of the files and the number of frames. It is possible to exceed the resources of a minimally equipped computer and cause errant behavior.
If you post the original dimensions of the video you mentioned, e.g. 640 x 480 or whatever, we can give you an idea how long that should take you for upscale to say 1080p or 4K, for a given graphics card.
The suggestion of an RTX 3060 ti is a good one though, because they are currently heavily discounted and even an RTX 4080 or 4090 will only roughly double your upscaling speed (a bit less for the 4080, a bit more for the 4090). 3060 ti is the more cost-effective option, not the fastest as mentioned, but far far faster than your CPU alone.
There shouldn’t be any real difference in performance. Nvidia has basically made sure of that. There might be a difference in customer support. I avoid some big brand names because of that. That’s not a factor when buying used though.
I don’t know what’s going on with those prices. Maybe the sellers spent too much on stocking those years ago, and don’t want to take the loss, even though the value has gone down.
It should be fine for that screen.
For TVAI the extra speed of the ti is worth it.
I know for some things, the 4070 and 4070 ti cards are not as good. Looking at the the benchmarks, it appears they are the same. Hard to tell since the CPU plays a big part in the score. The 3060 scores tend to be on old CPUs.
You should be fine with 8GB VRAM going to 4k. (Though I don’t think going to 4K is a useful endeavor.)
From what I learnt trying tons of GPUs there : latest RTX as possible.
Do not focus on GDDR amount or speed, it is vastly unused.
So RTX 4090 is king of the hill.
AMD boards are behind because of unoptmized code (Tensor optimized).
If you’re rich enough go, for tons of RTX 3070 + pro license. They do very good job, 8 GB is fair enough and you can put many of it on a board with PCIE Gen4 splitter for a very descent price. I would anyway suggest to keep x8 not x4.
It was said that TVAI does not use much of PCIE bandwidth but with high end boards, it does.
Notice that RAM speed/latency is very important, almost as much as GPU. It shouldn’t but it is. I just went to DDR5 6000 and the difference is gigantic from DDR4 4000 (B-Die).