I wish to know if it is reasonable to buy GTX980 graphics card. I could not find any comment how this works with Infusion engine 3.
Hi Aimo.
The card should work with MEP 2022 as it fully supports Direct X 12.1 but is now a legacy card. While driver updates are still available it uses more power than an equivalent more modern nvidia card. A lot will depend on how much you are paying for it and if a more modern card can't be bought cheaper with a similar specification.
However, we know graphics cards are still hard to come by at present and prices are inflated.
I think it should be safe enough to buy and will work.
Maybe wait for a second or third opinion though.
Ray.
Hi
In addition to @CubeAce comment that the GTX 980 is a 'legacy' GPU .
. . . . . . . . if it is reasonable to buy GTX980 graphics card . . . .
That depends on the video formats you want to import and export.
In a nutshell the 980 does not provide any advantages over the existing UHD 630 GPU as it does not support decoding video encoded VP9, h.265 (HEVC) or AV1 or encoding (exporting/rendering) of h.265 in 4K, 8K and HDR formats.
To get a reasonable upgrade in performance you would need to be looking at a GTX 1050 or better GPU.
HTH
John EB
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Thank you for these comments, this was something I wanted to know. Wish I find GTX1650 or something alike, they should be importing that to Finland within a couple of weeks.
Aimo
@Aimo-Vuento Without being too technical, buy the best & a newish graphics card you can afford, MEP uses the GPU well & whatever you spend will be worth it,
I don't have Intel CPU tho so i don't know if others/yours would be different,
Playing the video the GPU is doing the work on my system, CPU is doing very little,
& exporting max's out my GPU & again the CPU is doing very little.
Hi Aimo.
I am running an nvidia 1650 Super with no ill effects other than not being a top tier graphics card but gives reasonable results for the cost vs performance. So more about speed of exports or processing than ability to run with full compatibility within the program. If I could have afforded it at the time I think I would have gone for the 1660.
Ray.