Upgrade Ryzen 7 5700G system for use with general video editing?

[barnettgs]

Hello, I currently have one year old HP PC with Ryzen 7 5700G CPU, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB NVM M.2 SSD and 2 TB WD 7200 HDD.

There is two options I'm thinking of - upgrade this exisiting system or replace it with latest Intel i7 PC & RTX 3060 system.

This PC can upgrade the RAM to 64 GB maximum and is it worthwhile to add Geforce GTX 1660 Super to helps with the video editing but I have read some mixed opinions whether these delicated GPU cards really help with the video editing, especially when it comes to encoding on 2 pass VBR?

For your information, I'm using Adobe Premiere Elements 2020 but I might upgrade to the latest version of Premiere Pro if I get some more video editing work later this year or so. I don't use video editing much lately but I'm wondering if it is worth the extra cost for more CPU/GPU processing power.

 

[Tetras]

I'd have a read of the articles here, they do content creation benches with each new generation of CPUs too (13th gen). From my understanding, it is really dependent on what exactly you do, since not everything is GPU-accelerated and your bottleneck might be the CPU, the RAM, or even in some circumstances: your storage. It seems that for many tasks, the generation of the GPU and in some scenarios the VRAM, are more important than the performance, which probably relates to which part of the GPU it uses primarily.

How much time are you spending waiting for things to complete and which things take the longest? If you know that, you can try to find some YouTube videos which do direct comparisons (timed) and there are some channels which have a lot of content creation oriented videos, like this one.

 

[barnettgs]

The thing is that it is hard to see where my PC stands with their higher end system benchmarks. They rarely benchmark mid-range systems such as intel i5 and Ryzen 5/7, with or without delicated GPU as well (just to see the difference) so that I can compare the performance with theirs and see if it is worthwhile to upgrade.

The encoding seemed to be ok, although it might could do with extra RAM but adding GPUs which are expensives nowadays, I'm not sure if I can see the benefit of adding GPU.

 

[Tetras]

The thing is that it is hard to see where my PC stands with their higher end system benchmarks. They rarely benchmark mid-range systems such as intel i5 and Ryzen 5/7, with or without delicated GPU as well (just to see the difference) so that I can compare the performance with theirs and see if it is worthwhile to upgrade.

CPU: Roughly, your PC would perform similar to the 5600X in the 13th gen article.

IGP: UHD 770 (from the 13700K, but not KF which doesn't have one), there's a video on it here and the 5700G is included here, versus a 1660 Super.