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Video Editing - GTX650 or GTX650Ti or GTX660

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January 8, 2014 11:29:38 PM

Hi

I have looked around the forum and not found much of a comparison of the GTX650 vs GTX660 geared towards video editing in Adobe products.

Does anyone have any recommendation? Obvisouly the 650 versions are cheaper than the 660, but would the 660 offer marked improvement over the 650's?

Thanks :) 

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a b Î Nvidia
January 9, 2014 1:16:37 AM

The 660 is quite a bit faster, I would go for that.
January 9, 2014 1:52:59 AM

Well for rendering either is fine, those programs don't get a huge boost from moving up to higher model like games do. You'd only see really significant improvement if moving up to an expensive professional workstation card (Quadro instead of GeForce). And workstation cards don't have good gaming performance.

Hope this answers you question.

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January 9, 2014 3:00:33 AM

These programs especially After Effects, they don't use much GPU. They use a lot of CPU and Ram, I'd make sure those are adequate before dumping $200 into a GPU.
a b Î Nvidia
January 9, 2014 3:28:32 AM

Avocade said:
These programs especially After Effects, they don't use much GPU. They use a lot of CPU and Ram, I'd make sure those are adequate before dumping $200 into a GPU.

I agree completely.
January 9, 2014 5:22:47 AM

Thanks for all the replies.

Yes, they do rely on CPU and RAM, but the GPU's help massively with both On-the-fly rendering (especially for scrubbing through timelines with rendered effects) and with final video rendering.

I am from South Africa and the cost of the 650Ti is R1800 while the cost of the 660 is R2900 which is quite a large difference.
If there isn't much of a performance gain it would be better to spend the extra R1100 getting an i7 over an i5?
January 9, 2014 5:29:58 AM

You could get a GTX 650 without the Ti and use the extra 100 into an i7. the i7 would be ver beneficial since the i7 are made to run programs like AE more efficiently with their Hyper-threading capabilities.
a b Î Nvidia
January 9, 2014 10:45:39 AM

It helps with rendering, but not nearly as much as a few extra cores on your CPU, that increases performance while a better GPU is more of a quality of life thing.
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