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Video Editing - How does nVidia stack up to ATI?

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I'm in the market for a new video card to go with a new computer.

I'm leaning towards the 6800 GT PCI-express flavor, but I'm wondering what kind of performance I can expect when editing movies. Does the video card even matter, or since it's all digital these days, does the software matter more than the card?

-- Lax
 
Your cpu and how much ram you have is far more important than you vid card when it comes to video editing.. Certain programs favour intel and others amd. And they all like plenty of ram.. This is a case where your vid card just shows you the results and most any modern card will do fine.. Right now the 6800gt is where it's at bang for buck wise in gaming. Till the 850xl becomes more available anyway.
 
X800XL is pretty good "budget" card aswell.

As for video editing, video card doesn't make a huge difference, its all about CPU and RAM.

Get 2GB of CAS2 RAM, and a probably a Pentium 3.4E or above CPU (AVOID THE 3.8!).
 
well it just depend on your program and codec that you use to video edit. I don't really think that i matter with the video card. I have a NVIDA 4400 ti, :confused: i know it like 4 years old. But i still get really good quality. I just really depend on how well your knowledge on video editing
 
Definitely go with the 6600GT PCI-Express or 6800 non-ultra pci-express

both of them have the best hardware video acceleration of any card on the market (the 6800GT is not as good in this department)
 
If you will be editing video I would think it's safe to assume you'll be rendering video, which makes Intel the obvious choice. I know Adobe Premiere Pro requires SSE2 and also takes advantage (but doesn't require) SSE3, which currently is only in Intel's latest offerings. I plan on doing a fair amount of video editing myself, which is why I have been waiting for the Venice core; however I'm starting to think I'll be waiting longer than I had expected, so I may go with a 3200+ for now and upgrade in six months.

Back to your question, though. The video card really won't matter unless you plan on rendering 3D objects or animation. If it's just video then a 16mb card would probably perform as well as a 64mb card given you have enough RAM.
 
Good info from the [H]orde as usual. Thanks guys =)

Trans, why do you say the 6800 GT doesn't accelerate as well as the 6600 or 6800 vanilla? I thought it went 6600 GT < 6800 < 6800 GT...what's the difference that I'd notice?
 
There were some.... problems... with some of the GTs and video acceleration.
 
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