How much improvement from graphics card vs onboard video?

[wormil]

Currently have onboard video but thinking of adding a graphics card. It would be a fairly low level graphics card, under $50. Just not sure how much benefit I can expect. Thanks.

[skier-hughes]

Depending on what your on-board graphics is, I suspect improvement will be somewhere between very very little to no-existent.

[wormil]

Seems like even an inexpensive card should make some improvement since system memory won't be used for graphics and what ever minor bump from CUDA.

[wormil]

Well I had hoped for more feedback but I've decided to pick up an R7 250 and give it a try to see if it helps. Decided to go with AMD as the low end Radeon cards trounce the low end Nvidia cards in the few video editing related benchmarks I could find. I'll post back whether it helped or not.

[df]

Didn't really seem to do much for me on my Nvidia 650 Ti Boost.

[brandelh]

The build in GPU in a i3-2100 is not too fast, but for video and desktop it should be fast enough.

What does Win7 say about the speed ?

The PC here with a i5-2500 has 5 ... so more than good enough for 2D Apps.

[wormil]

Base score is 5.2.

This whole thing has been puzzling me because according to task manager I'm rarely going over about 30% CPU utilization and never using over 4GB of memory even though I have 8GB, but it's acting like I'm running out of memory. Then it occurred to me that VS is acting like a 32bit program, which can't access more than 4GB of RAM.

[brandelh]

My VS16 is a 32 bit Applikation, the new 17 does exists in two versions, but maybe the app don't need more RAM to do the job (for DVD Resolution).
I do have SSDs as harddisks and no speed problems. Now I have installed the 64 bit test version and found FullHD Profiles ... thats what I want.

[erdna]

I don't think VSX7 soft is designed to use GPU. I read somwhere that the 64 bit version uses Intel's on board graphics cores.

[wormil]

According to Corel, VS is optimized for Nvidia's CUDA and AMD's equivalent (whatever they call it).

http://www.videostudiopro.com/docs/prod ... son-en.pdf

[Ken Berry]

Unfortunately, however, it seems the CUDA it will only work with are now very old versions. It has not been updated to work with current CUDA versions.

[wormil]

AMD version is passive and supposed to work whether optimized for it or not. Might be part of the reason low end AMD cards are so much faster at rendering video.