Have a system with a PowerColor Radeon R7 370 2GBD5 PCI Express 3.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R5. CPU is AMD FX-9590 4.7GHz and 32 GB DDR3 memory. 750 watt power supply. That mobo is only PCIExpress 2.0. This runs my dual monitor setup at 1920 x 1080. I want to upgrade to 4k monitors, so looking for the right GPU upgrade. I do not game, it's primarily video editing, photoshop. Looking for advice, suggestions. Spending what I need but not more if don't need to. Thanks John
Want to upgrade to 4k monitor - which GPU
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Barty1884
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The R7 370 can drive a 4K monitor.
Over DisplayPort it can do 4K @ 60Hz.
HDMI (1.4) would be limited to 4K @ 30Hz.
Whether your existing card is capable for what you want to do really depends. Editing/Photoshop isn't my area of expertise - I would suspect any GPU acceleration inside Photoshop etc would be somewhat limited if you continued to use the 370.
Not sure what the "ideal" upgrade would be for you. I'd suggest starting out with the 4K monitor and your existing GPU - and see how it feels.
Over DisplayPort it can do 4K @ 60Hz.
HDMI (1.4) would be limited to 4K @ 30Hz.
Whether your existing card is capable for what you want to do really depends. Editing/Photoshop isn't my area of expertise - I would suspect any GPU acceleration inside Photoshop etc would be somewhat limited if you continued to use the 370.
Not sure what the "ideal" upgrade would be for you. I'd suggest starting out with the 4K monitor and your existing GPU - and see how it feels.
Barty, thanks. I wasn't sure if the GPU would run 4K given it's not on PCIE3. When I borrowed a friends 4k Samsung and hooked it up using DisplayPort, it only ran at 1920 x 1080. Found no way to get higher resolution via Windows nor Radeon control panels (running Win 10). What I wanted initially is to run the monitor at native resolution, then move on from there. But that has me wondering about the cable we used in doing that testing. Have to think on this a bit.
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PCIe 2 vs Gen3 is not going to be much of an issue at all (more theoretical that anything).
The 370 certainly can run a 4K monitor, you probably needed to uninstall/reinstall your GPU drivers to accurately detect the monitor as 4K inside Radeon settings and Windows for some reason.
The 370 certainly can run a 4K monitor, you probably needed to uninstall/reinstall your GPU drivers to accurately detect the monitor as 4K inside Radeon settings and Windows for some reason.
Thank you. Your response made me get the monitor from my buddy and try a new DisplayPort cable, and at a reboot, it saw the monitor and set things up for the resolution. To be safe, I uninstalled the video drivers and then rebooted and reinstalled and everything stuck. So thanks again for the response which gave me the idea of the cable and the idea to reload teh drivers. Money saved, and monitor bought.
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