4k video playback specs

[Thingomy]

I have no idea how demanding video playback is these days, and I doubly don't know graphics hardware spec outside the NVidia ecosystem.

 

For the following usecase:

 

Snappy and responsive video playback and review (including some scrubbing and frequent rewinds etc) -- some of the video will be at 4k quality;

Occasional video editing of 1080p video;

Some moderatly multi chanel audio editing.

 

Approved suppliers are able to offer the following standard machine:

i5 8500 six core

16GB DDR4-2666

intel hd630 graphics

generic 256GB ssd

(optional AMD Radeon R7 430 2G -- no idea if it would help or hinder)

 

Will this be up to the job? any general advice?

 

[Princess Luna]

If you plan on working a lot with video and sound editing do try to push it to the i7 8700 as the way higher clocks and Hyper-Threading will help a lot, it's HD630 integrated graphics alone is capable of 4k60fps playback fine.

 

Get a cheap b360 board, you can stick to stock cooling but it's noisy so if you can get an aftermarket air cooler, any decent one will be way more quiet during operation.

[Thingomy]

Unfortuantely I'm stuck in a higher education setting dealing with approved suppiers and standard stuff; for a diferent project I told them I wanted a graphics workstation with a 1070 in it, they told me the only option they had was to use a quadro. Not at all flexible.

 

The model up from that on the list is (and I'm not really considering this an option):

Xeon w-2123 4 cores

Quadro p400

 

Video and audio editing stuff will be occasional and "education" grade stuff, not "production" grade stuff (IE, this will be people learning the process, not actually producing real content), so it's going to be small projects and it's ok if it's not totally snappy, as long as it's functional.

 

I suppose the question I should be asking is -- do I kick off and tell them I need a totally custom build, (in incurr the wrath of the finance, procurment and windows build teams) or will this do the job?

 

 

[ewitte]

I don't see why not its a Pascal card.  You don't need a ton of power to play 4k video just something modern with hardware feature support.  Most encoding gets loaded on the CPU.

[Thingomy]

Ok, so do I stick with the intel hd630 graphics or do I add the Radeon R7 430 2G -- I honestly have no idea which would perform better.