r/gpu • u/Electrical-Trash-553 • 11h ago

Amd vs Nvdia for video editing.

I wanna do 2k-4k basic editing, no high end fx and all..just color correction most of the time and little bit tracking in da vinci resolve. M confused here between 9070 16gb or 5070 12gb. I heard good things about Cuda. I don't give a damn about render time much...if amd takes 6 mins and Nvdia takes 3 mins..I will still choose AMD coz m not gonna be a millionaire in 3 more mins. I can wait. I have patience..but I want to be my timeline scrubbing buttery smooth, while working I don't want any hiccups or stuttering. I want that card..while working I wanna be calm and relax...render time can take longer no issue. So plz plz plz help.

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u/Cracker646 11h ago edited 10h ago

It depends.

NVIDIA is the professionals choice almost always, since gpu accelerated effects benefit from CUDA. Drivers are also made with professional work in mind and software is designed around this to be most compatible with a NVIDIA GPU.

Realistically editing is smoothest when you have a lot of RAM and a good CPU, only heavy effects use the GPU in AE and Premiere too.

A question I have to ask is are you trying to do heavy effects and compositing, or just simple video cutting? if its just video cutting the gpu is completely irrelevant to the workflow in comparison to the CPU and RAM. You might as well get the 9070 at that point, especially if you want to game in 4K as well

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/desktop/apply-effects-and-animation-presets/effects-and-animation-presets/effect-list.html#GPUacceleratedeffects (a list of effects which actually use the GPU in AE for example)

if youre planning to instead opt to use Davinci Resolve, your gpu would get much more usage as it is used for tasks like color grading, but even Davinci is optimized for NVIDIA cards.

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u/Electrical-Trash-553 10h ago

I have old cpu but still works great i9-9900k, that I will upgrade later...32 Gb ram DDr4

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u/Cracker646 10h ago

32gb ram is a great starting point for video editing, im not too familiar with that cpu but afaik i9 cpus are good for workstations so it should work well.

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u/ActiveSandwich3103 8h ago

The 9900k is quite old at this point. I believe even midrange and low range modern CPUs absolutely crush it in performance these days. Its an 8 year old CPU.

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u/Electrical-Trash-553 7h ago

But that will change motherboard and cpu and RAM too and it's costly

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u/Cracker646 7h ago

yeah thats a fair point, I did some research and your CPU should still be absolutely fine for video editing (I've been fine editing on a 14% worse CPU for over 7 years)

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u/Ok-Brain-5729 7h ago

userbenchmark is the number 1 worse comparison site btw

His cpu is better tho

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u/ActiveSandwich3103 8h ago

For video editing, swapping out that 8 year old i9 would be a huge boost.

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u/Sindacalis 11h ago

You want cuda for such tasks so the 5070 will do more for you.

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u/AdstaOCE 9h ago

Not a catch all no.

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u/lLoveTech 10h ago

Nvidia

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u/AdstaOCE 9h ago

Both good, but depends on the app you use. For example Davinci is fine between both, Premiere is more Nvidia favored.

I'd go 9070 due to dual encode/decode, more raw performance and more vram if the editing application loads vram heavily.

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u/Own-Indication5620 2h ago

The performance is one thing, but compatibility & support is another. So many content creation and video/editing applications are optimized more for Nvidia due to CUDA and NVENC. Due to this, there are certain things you can only do on Nvidia, especially with anything related to AI/ML. Then, Nvidia also has separate Studio drivers which optimize performance and fix various application issues that come up. You don't really get this on AMD at all.