Which would you choose?

[Sound_Bear]

Greetings everyone,

I'm hunting down components to build a new PC. I've been looking for a while now, and LTT has helped me out in what I really need to look at. I'm at the final stage of my selection; the graphics card.

I've narrowed it down to two cards: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 Super WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card and the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 DirectX 12

 

I'm mostly looking into post audio work with video footage, some basic video creation, and casual gaming. That said, I would like to have the option for further content creation if I find myself in such a position (streaming, higher quality video creation, etc.)

 

I'm fairly set on the AMD 2700x and CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 to rest inside a ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate.

Any help y'all can lend, I will greatly appreciate.

[Uptivuptiz]

For game streaming and recording there's no better thing than NVENC. Which only works on Nvidia cards so I'd go with the 2060.

[spartaman64]

5 minutes ago, Uptivuptiz said:

For game streaming and recording there's no better thing than NVENC. Which only works on Nvidia cards so I'd go with the 2060.

idk i have a 1070 ti and when i stream using nvenc it always look pixely when i move a lot so i still prefer to do cpu encoding

[Guy Marshall]

4 hours ago, Sound_Bear said:

Greetings everyone,

I'm hunting down components to build a new PC. I've been looking for a while now, and LTT has helped me out in what I really need to look at. I'm at the final stage of my selection; the graphics card.

I've narrowed it down to two cards: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 Super WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card and the GIGABYTE Radeon RX Vega 64 DirectX 12

 

I'm mostly looking into post audio work with video footage, some basic video creation, and casual gaming. That said, I would like to have the option for further content creation if I find myself in such a position (streaming, higher quality video creation, etc.)

 

I'm fairly set on the AMD 2700x and CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 to rest inside a ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate.

Any help y'all can lend, I will greatly appreciate.

I recommend the RTX 2060 Super for your specific needs and I will explain why.

 

The 2060 Super leapfrogs with the Vega 64 in games (depending on which you play) so that isn't much of an issue. You can get ray tracing if you care about that at all on low-mid graphics settings 1440p, or higher in 1080p. One major advantage of the 2060 Super is CUDA, for applications such as video editing and rendering which are CUDA accelerated. Also as somebody pointed out you get NVENC but seeing as though I have not used that I cannot say if it is a benefit to you at all.

 

Other than those mentioned, the two cards trade blows in gaming and other applications, but the 2060 Super (faster and same cost as 2060) is a great deal at the moment!