How important are Cuda Cores for building a PC intended for media creation?

[Boo_OS]

Hi there,

I'm looking to upgrade my GPU, my PC is a mid tier workstation intended for Adobe Suite and 3D modelling. I've always been an Nvidia user but due to multiple issues with two cards now due to faulty memory, lack of VRam, and buggy utilities, I've been considering taking the leap to team red and grabbing a

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT.​

Basically I want to know, how much am I going to miss the benefits Nvidia cards currently offer in media creation. I'm not particularly up to date with current cards as I took a long (7 year) hiatus from PC building, so if somebody could break that'd be great.

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My current specs:

• i7 12700

• Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz​

• RTX 3060Ti MSI Ventus 2x OC LHR >>> AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (???)​

• 1x WD BLUE SN570 1TB M.2 2280 | 2x Crucial BX500 SATA SSD 2TB, 2.5 | 1x Seagate BarraCuda, 4TB

• TUF GAMING B660-PLUS WIFI D4​

• RM850X V2​

 

[Boo_OS]

You need to answer what gpuerrilla asked because it depends on which apps and exactly what you're doing. I've watched a fair few videos on this channel and his general advice is: 2D work you can use either, but for 3D nvidia is often much faster. From the benchmarks I've seen (which are subject to driver and app updates and this can change things A LOT), if you do a lot of 3D work, AMD is significantly slower (and by significantly I mean, not even in the same league, you just would not buy one for professional use).

I would list the frequency and importance of the apps you use first.

I mainly use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for rasterized and vector graphics, I would say I use 3D software the least to be honest. Maybe once every every few weeks when a clients commission requires it, it's definitely not all that important to me. Video editing (PR, AE) however is something that I'm interested in pursuing more often, the type of video editing that requires MULTIPLE files and plugins that would need to be compressed video Adobe Media Encoder.

 

[Boo_OS]

Was going to reference this guy as he has done a lot of videos on the topic. Not to say he has his bias but bear that in mind. Now I do recall watching some other videos where AMD has done very well in some apps because they have started working with the vendors products.

However looking at what you have I would stick with the 3060Ti for a bit.

Yeah probably for the best, at least until FSR 3.1 comes out. I'm struggling to pull the trigger on an £600 on a card with only 12gb of Vram.

 

[Boo_OS]

I never noticed the OP has a 3060 Ti, oops. I agree with you, I wouldn't get a 7800 XT unless there's clear benchmark data that it would offer a significant improvement.

AMD's workstation performance can be so hit and miss that in some cases the 7800 XT could even be slower than the 3060 Ti.

Do you think a 4070Ti super would be bottlenecked with my current system? It is obviously much more expensive than the 4070 / 7800XT, but it offers what I want out of both cards.