Do I really need a graphics card?

rifatseal

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So, I just sold my graphics card and right now my is fine with Intel HD 530. My monitor is HPP22er (1080p) and my daily tasks are going just fine.
Primarily, I spend most of my times on YouTube and other streaming services. Beside that, I also do some office stuffs with basic office softwares. Thirdly, I do practice light/medium video editing on Premiere Pro (With no problem right now). No time for gaming, so things are just fine.

The question is, do I really need a dedicated graphics card to boost up performance in my daily activities. My CPU (Core I5-6500) was running at 48-52% while watching a 4k YouTube video. I know that is normal but I really don't want to put much pressure on CPU.

If I have to "Just Buy" a graphics card for daily tasks, which one should I buy right now? Because the market is pretty messed up.
 
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No gaming - no need for a GPU. Look at all the PC's in an business/office environment. None of them have GPU's and are used for productivity tasks with no performance issues. The one item that makes a huge difference in performance is a SSD (versus a HDD).
if you are not doing any gaming and you are satisfied with the current performance
you don´t need a dedicated graphics card .
having a nvidia gtx GPU would aid in encoding GPU accelerated effects in premiere pro
but it is more cpu than gpu intensive software .

if you want to play some older games or new games on low/medium presets than gtx 1050 will do .
 
No gaming - no need for a GPU. Look at all the PC's in an business/office environment. None of them have GPU's and are used for productivity tasks with no performance issues. The one item that makes a huge difference in performance is a SSD (versus a HDD).
 
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