Video card for entry level HTCP - smooth 4K video/movies playback

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  1. psyside

    psyside Master Guru

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    Hi, looking for the best video card for 4K videos on my HTCP.

    CPU - G2020 Onboard card....

    Ram - 8GB




    When i play 4K videos, on youtube or any 4K videos, its totally lagging. So i need to get the best card for the money, budget is around 120$/100euros....

    I need to know which card would offer the best support for H265/H264, and other popular codecs for smooth video playback, although youtube now runs in HTML5 which afaik is not hardware accelerated (or i'm wrong?) i will be mostly using MPHC as a player to watch 4K content taken with my Note 4 which records 4K videos @~50mbps H264 - AAC ~ 256.

    Also keep in mind, i don't have 4K monitor yet, i just want to watch downscaled videos on my 1200p monitor, they look much better compared to the 1080p ones anyway, and i will be getting 4K monitor in near future anyway.

    So in short most "advanced" card for downscaling/decoding (best and most variety of codecs support) on youtube and 4K movies/clips video card? thanks!
     
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  2. sykozis

    sykozis Ancient Guru

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    GTX750 or R7 250 should suffice rather nicely. They're the best you're going to find on such a limited budget.
     
  3. fantaskarsef

    fantaskarsef Ancient Guru

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    And there I guess you should look at the radeon, don't they have better support for H.264 / 265?
     
  4. psyside

    psyside Master Guru

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    I have no idea really :D
     

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    Which one is better then the 2?
     
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    If you're just using it for HTPC, they should be about equal in performance. Personally, I've always had better luck with AMD/ATI graphics cards for video though.
     
  7. psyside

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    Yes, for HTCP but not sure about the codecs support :(
     
  8. sykozis

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    Look up reviews for both cards and see if you can find a list. You can even try looking and AMD and NVidia's websites.
     

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