I need help choosing a video card

Yousef labban

New Member
Hello dear

I need help buying a cheap video card

I want a video card for live broadcasting on YouTube, because the integrated graphics card from the computer is completely consumed, and this causes an annoying slowdown in the computer.

I don't want it for games

I'm doing live broadcasts in 720p with 30 frames per second and that's enough

What I am broadcasting is a webcam with hosting some people from Google Meet or Skype and showing some text files and maybe some videos

This is the placement of my broadcast on YouTube. Please help me with a video card that matches my broadcast
 

koala

Active Member
In case you consider a Nvidia GPU for the excellent nvenc hardware encoder, don't buy a GT 710/730 or GT 1030. These don't have Nvenc. The cheapest driver-supported and not too old GPUs start with about 150 Euro and are GTX 1630, 1650, 1660. Since the price difference is marginal, I recommend at least GTX 1650. Don't buy 2nd hand GTX 9xx, 8xx, 7xx, and I would even say don't buy 2nd hand GTX 10x0 as well, since these might be the next that could drop out of Nvidia driver support. Since OBS tends to require very recent Nvidia drivers, driver support is somewhat important.

With AMD GPUs, I don't know and cannot say anything. They are cheaper in general, however I don't have a clue how their hardware encoder will behave on their cheap low end GPUs. Might work good for you, especially if you don't intend to burn CPU power with a game, but I simply don't have any experience with these cards.
 

Yousef labban

New Member
In case you consider a Nvidia GPU for the excellent nvenc hardware encoder, don't buy a GT 710/730 or GT 1030. These don't have Nvenc. The cheapest driver-supported and not too old GPUs start with about 150 Euro and are GTX 1630, 1650, 1660. Since the price difference is marginal, I recommend at least GTX 1650. Don't buy 2nd hand GTX 9xx, 8xx, 7xx, and I would even say don't buy 2nd hand GTX 10x0 as well, since these might be the next that could drop out of Nvidia driver support. Since OBS tends to require very recent Nvidia drivers, driver support is somewhat important.

With AMD GPUs, I don't know and cannot say anything. They are cheaper in general, however I don't have a clue how their hardware encoder will behave on their cheap low end GPUs. Might work good for you, especially if you don't intend to burn CPU power with a game, but I simply don't have any experience with these cards.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart, you added information to me that I did not know
 
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