Around 6 years ago I built my own PC, running Arch Linux:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77
RAM: 16GB
At the time I didn't need a graphic card. However, three years ago I decided to buy an ASUS GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB graphic card mainly for my 1440p monitor, mining Vertcoin(terrible idea), and lately playing a bit of Tekken on Steam.
Recently I have started editing 4K videos for YouTube every other week on Kdenlive, as I found it the most promising video editor on Linux. However, I found some performance issue, when playing the video live on the editor. I'm not really too sure if this issue is related to my GPU or Kdenlive. I even tried to install Davinci Resolve. Right away it told me my graphic card might be too slow to render certain files. However, I realized Davinci Resolve cannot even read the Videos from my camera. So I completely gave up on it.
I'm also not too sure how well these Nvidia drivers compared to AMD ones now. I came across a lot of positive comments about AMD GPUs on Linux. So I guess this time I'm going to buy an AMD GPU this time.
So now I'm back to the market to buy a more powerful GPU in $300 price range mainly to:
- Edit 4K videos and RAW photos on Kdenlive and Darktable faster and smoother
- My wife may end up using the GPU for her big data processing
- Improve gaming experience with Steam for Linux. I mainly play Tekken and maybe PES if they ever support it
Note that I'm not too sure if my CPU and motherboard are important factors when it comes to buying a graphic card that plays well with them? I'm going to bump up my RAM to 32GB, which seems to be sufficient.
Thank you in advance.
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