GPU for video conferencing.

[AthonRogue]

I am researching a moderate budget build for a non-profit which needs to be able to handle regular video conferencing over Zoom and Teams with its members. There is a lot of screen sharing for presentations and a lot of that is video. Is there better GPU options for video conferencing? Or should I stick to an modest GPU such as a 3050?

[SorryBella]

25 minutes ago, AthonRogue said:

There is a lot of screen sharing for presentations and a lot of that is video. Is there better GPU options for video conferencing? Or should I stick to an modest GPU such as a 3050?

For these case, most of the time the GPU is going to be used for more display outputs or a dedicated encoder if your video calling client even supports anything other than H264/265 which pretty much anything supports nowadays. iGPU is more than enough in most cases. 

[kirashi]

28 minutes ago, AthonRogue said:

I am researching a moderate budget build for a non-profit which needs to be able to handle regular video conferencing over Zoom and Teams with its members. There is a lot of screen sharing for presentations and a lot of that is video. Is there better GPU options for video conferencing? Or should I stick to an modest GPU such as a 3050?

If all you're doing is video conferencing with this machine, you don't need a dedicated GPU. Modern Intel and AMD CPUs (the one's with integrated graphics) can handle video conferencing software absolutely fine out of the box. All of our conference rooms and pretty much all laptops at work run solely off 12th, 10th, or 8th gen Intel CPUs - no video cards at all because we don't do photography or video editing.

[KodokuJ]

54 minutes ago, AthonRogue said:

I am researching a moderate budget build for a non-profit which needs to be able to handle regular video conferencing over Zoom and Teams with its members. There is a lot of screen sharing for presentations and a lot of that is video. Is there better GPU options for video conferencing? Or should I stick to an modest GPU such as a 3050?

You don't need a GPU for that. I'd suggest a 6 core CPU with an iGPU in it! If you're going cheap as you can with new and good components I'd recommend a i5-12400 (avoid the 12400F, it has no iGPU) and staying with DDR4 as it's still perfectly viable!

Whats your overall budget? We can help you out with a parts list!

[emothxughts]

In the off case that your CPU doesn't have integrated graphics, pick between the NVIDIAs GT 210, GT 710, GT 1030 or the AMD RX 550, and nothing more powerful and expensive than these. As an added bonus, you get to plug in multiple displays to these, which is hard to do with integrated graphics.

[Salted Spinach]

5 hours ago, AthonRogue said:

I am researching a moderate budget build for a non-profit which needs to be able to handle regular video conferencing over Zoom and Teams with its members.

You are looking for a mini-PC or budget laptop