What Card? (Need Help)

[MylesAndMore]

Hello to you people,

 

I am building a budget PC, with things such as a Ryzen 5 1600, ASUS Prime B450-Plus mobo, and 16GB DDR4 3000MHz RAM.

 

I have partially decided on my graphics card; the Radeon RX 570. I plan to run mostly e-sports games and video edit at 1080P, but might expand that in the future. I want to know, what card should I go with? The 4GB model, or 8GB?

And also, does clock speed really matter?

 

I linked two RX 570s below, and my PCPartPicker list.

Thanks in advance for any help I get!

 

 

MSi Radeon RX 570 8GB Armor OC

 

ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 570 4GB

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor	$143.89 @ OutletPC
CPU Cooler	Cooler Master - MasterAir G100M RGB 22.63 CFM CPU Cooler	$39.99 @ Amazon
Thermal Compound	ARCTIC - MX4 4 g Thermal Paste	$7.39 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	Asus - PRIME B450-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	$109.89 @ OutletPC
Memory	Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$126.99 @ Amazon
Case	Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 5 RGB ATX Mid Tower Case	$69.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Thermaltake - Smart RGB 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply	$34.99 @ Newegg
Other	CableMod WideBeam Magnetic LED Strip RGB Kit (60cm)	$32.99
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$596.12
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$566.12
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-03-11 13:29 EDT-0400

 

[Princess Luna]

Considering you're going with 16gb of system memory already and you'll stick to 1080p, the 4gb RX 570 would suffice, but if the price is narrow enough do consider the 8gb.

[Jurrunio]

11 minutes ago, MylesAndMore said:

ASUS Prime B450-Plus mobo

for how much? performance of this thing isn't good with a purely decorative VRM heatsink

 

11 minutes ago, MylesAndMore said:

I linked two RX 570s below, and my PCPartPicker list.

Thanks in advance for any help I get!

 

 

MSi Radeon RX 570 8GB Armor OC

 

ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 570 4GB

I'd go 4GB because RX 570 doesnt have enough performance to make use of more than 4GB video memory settings at 1080p, also your list wasn't linked.

[mariushm]

For 1080p The RX 570 4GB is enough.

Few games go over 4GB of memory at 1080p, but if you bump the quality sliders down a notch from Ultra to Very High or change some settings from ultra/very high to high - basically, minimal visual quality differences, if any, you'll get the memory usage below 4 GB or close enough that swapping between system ram and video card ram would not cause significant performance losses.

 

People are obsessed with running games at the highest presets possible, like Ultra.. but don't realize that often the preset just below is basically something like 95-98% of maximum quality for lots more fps.

 

[MylesAndMore]

Thanks to all of you for helping me out!

 

My only question is - since I am a content creator/streamer, will the 4GB version be able to handle some video editing or streaming e-sports like Rocket League?

[mariushm]

Absolutely. Rocket League is really light on video cards, and the RX 570 has hardware encoders if you want to stream... also video editors can use OpenCL to accelerate things using the video card.