video card for new computer

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:31:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>PPS: I worked on audio and video business and I'm a video and audio
>engineer as well as an artist myself. While I guess that blender is
>overprized, the Wiki anyway provides related information:
>
>Hardware 	Production-standard
>Processor 	64-bit eight core CPU
>Memory 	        16 GB RAM
>Graphics card 	Dual OpenGL 3.2 compatible cards with 4 GB video
>RAM Display 	Dual 1920×1080 pixels, 24-bit color
>Input 	        Three-button mouse and graphics tablet
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Hardware_requirements

My apologies, I forgot to quote this, from the same link:

"Cuda Requirements: Compute Level 2.0+, NVIDIA Fermi, better Kepler or
later

OpenCL Requirements: OpenCL 1.2, better OpenCL 2.0, AMD GCN 2nd Gen. or
later with OpenCL 2.0 recommended since 2.79 (GCN 1 on Blacklist) or
NVidia Kepler or Later (Cuda with more Performance)

Actual recommended for best performance: Actual Intel Xeon or AMD Ryzen
(8 to 32 Proz.), 64 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 1080 or better, AMD Radeon RX
580 or better, fast SSD, Display: Dual 3840x2160 30-bit Color"