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GTX 960 for CUDA Accelerated video editing

Philcat101
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Should I get a GTX 960 for video editing and some gaming, or should I get a 970 for more CUDA cores and better gaming performance? Is the step up worth it?

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I would be glad to get either card: money is not a problem. However, I would like to save as much money as possible.

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970 would be a better choice. More powerful, and it is not to much more expensive.

 

EDIT: but spend your money on a better CPU (unless you already have one) What programs are you running?

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Can you use an R9 290 for OpenCL acceleration and better gaming performance for less cost?

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970 would be a better choice. More powerful, and it is not to much more expensive.

 

EDIT: but spend your money on a better CPU (unless you already have one) What programs are you running?

I plan to run the Adobe CS Suite and some other content creation programs. The CPUs I have been eyeing are the Core i5 4690K and the i7 4790K

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I plan to run the Adobe CS Suite and some other content creation programs. The CPUs I have been eyeing are the Core i5 4690K and the i7 4790K

i7 4790K, as Hyper-threading will benefit you here as some content creation software can evenly spread out the workload between threads. especially AE as it works very well with rendering videos with all your CPUs threads (I can get all 12 threads at 100% load).

 

i7-4790K vs i5-4690K in PS

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-4790k-i5-4690k_6.html

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