MSI GTX 1660 SUPER Ventus XS OC as budget Video editing GPU?

[Noah0302]

My grandpa wants a new PC for his hobby video editing, mainly 1080p with a tiny bit of 1440p and 4k, but most of the GPUs are out of stock or massively overpriced in Germany.

 

I saw this card as one of the few that actually are in stock and not 100€ above MSRP, only 60€...

I know that still is not good, but looking for a GPU for about a week I have yet to see a better deal than that.

 

Now to my Question:
Is this card suitable for video editing? I thought it should perform rather well with 6GB of VRAM.

Here are the full specs of the PC I plan on building for him:
-This GPU
-Ryzen 1600 12nm

-Asrock B450m Pro4

-2x8GB Gskill 3000MHz CL16 (not that great I know, but I tested it and it will go up to 3200MHz stable 24/7)

-Crucial 480GB SSD + Some old 2TB HDD

-500W Be Quiet Pure Power 11

-Cooler Master Q300l


Im thankful for any advice on the topic, since im not that well versed in video editing!

[GorujoCY]

video editing, especially in 4k doesnt need that much gpu muscle to handle, most of the load will be transferred to the cpu. is it possible to find around a gtx 1050 ti or gtx 1650 at lower prices? also rx 500 gpus will do the video editing job well... (starting from rx 560 or probably rx 550 but the 550 isnt too guranteed to handle 4k video editing) if you can find one.

[AnirbanG007]

8 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

My grandpa wants a new PC for his hobby video editing, mainly 1080p with a tiny bit of 1440p and 4k, but most of the GPUs are out of stock or massively overpriced in Germany.

 

I saw this card as one of the few that actually are in stock and not 100€ above MSRP, only 60€...

I know that still is not good, but looking for a GPU for about a week I have yet to see a better deal than that.

 

Now to my Question:
Is this card suitable for video editing? I thought it should perform rather well with 6GB of VRAM.

Here are the full specs of the PC I plan on building for him:
-This GPU
-Ryzen 1600 12nm

-Asrock B450m Pro4

-2x8GB Gskill 3000MHz CL16 (not that great I know, but I tested it and it will go up to 3200MHz stable 24/7)

-Crucial 480GB SSD + Some old 2TB HDD

-500W Be Quiet Pure Power 11

-Cooler Master Q300l


Im thankful for any advice on the topic, since im not that well versed in video editing!

You could easily get away with using a 1650 or a 1650 super for a budget video editing station. If however, the 1660 super is all you can buy right now, it would obviously be great for 4k video editing for gpu accelerated workflows, but also, if he chooses hardware encoding using the Nvidia Encoder (nvenc), assuming he uses Adobe Premiere Pro, the additional CUDA cores would very much come in handy.

 

If by any chance, he uses Da Vinci Resolve, it would also prefer a faster GPU as it is more GPU focused than Premiere.

[Noah0302]

16 minutes ago, GorujoCY said:

video editing, especially in 4k doesnt need that much gpu muscle to handle, most of the load will be transferred to the cpu. is it possible to find around a gtx 1050 ti or gtx 1650 at lower prices? also rx 500 gpus will do the video editing job well... (starting from rx 560 or probably rx 550 but the 550 isnt too guranteed to handle 4k video editing) if you can find one.

Well, the cheapest 1650 Super Ive seen in stock was only 30€ cheaper than the MSI 1660 Super...
1050 ti's go for about 160€, which could be the budget option here.
Sadly I can forget RX cards, as they go for about the same price as the 1660 Super (WTF)

[Noah0302]

10 minutes ago, AnirbanG007 said:

You could easily get away with using a 1650 or a 1650 super for a budget video editing station. If however, the 1660 super is all you can buy right now, it would obviously be great for 4k video editing for gpu accelerated workflows, but also, if he chooses hardware encoding using the Nvidia Encoder (nvenc), assuming he uses Adobe Premiere Pro, the additional CUDA cores would very much come in handy.

 

If by any chance, he uses Da Vinci Resolve, it would also prefer a faster GPU as it is more GPU focused than Premiere.

Yeah, I wanted to go for a 1650 Super, but they are only like 30€ cheaper than a 1660 Super for some reason. At least it is the case for the few that are in stock.

 

And yeah, I know how good NVENC is from streaming from time to time myself!

[AnirbanG007]

5 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

Yeah, I wanted to go for a 1650 Super, but they are only like 30€ cheaper than a 1660 Super for some reason. At least it is the case for the few that are in stock.

 

And yeah, I know how good NVENC is from streaming from time to time myself!

Hahaha, weird times man. Aight, 1660 super it is then. Happy editing to your grandpa. I'm sure he'll be very pleased.

[Noah0302]

1 minute ago, AnirbanG007 said:

Hahaha, weird times man. Aight, 1660 super it is then. Happy editing to your grandpa. I'm sure he'll be very pleased.

Thank you!