Advice on Video Card for 4K monitor for web and multimedia use. No gaming

[WhiteCoatGeek]

I am thinking of upgrading my monitor to the new Samsung 4K monitor. I have an ATI Radeon 5850 currently in PCIe x 16 2.0 slot. Please recommend a video card (preferably AMD but open to Nvidia) for my usage scenario which is mostly web and multimedia. My max budget is 300$ but I would prefer something in range for 200$.

 

[Rakehellion]

If you're not gaming or doing professional video editing, then the 5850 will work fine.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

If you're not gaming or doing professional video editing, then the 5850 will work fine.

are you sure about that, doesn't it need to be DP v1.2 to support 3840x2160@60Hz? and 1.2 wasn't approved until after the 5800s were released...

or am I mistaken somewhere

 

[MeldarthX]

Unless its a later model 5850 it will be 1.1 most likely - if you're not going to be playing any games all.......r7 240 or r7 250 would be your best bet. If you're looking to do some games......then r7 270X....

or go used with 6870....roughly the same speed as your 5850......and would be 1.2 dp

 

[WhiteCoatGeek]

If you're not gaming or doing professional video editing, then the 5850 will work fine.

are you sure about that, doesn't it need to be DP v1.2 to support 3840x2160@60Hz? and 1.2 wasn't approved until after the 5800s were released...

or am I mistaken somewhere

Unfortunately, 5850 supports only upto 2560x1600 via its DP.

 

[ViRGE]

Unless its a later model 5850 it will be 1.1 most likely - if you're not going to be playing any games all.......r7 240 or r7 250 would be your best bet. If you're looking to do some games......then r7 270X....

or go used with 6870....roughly the same speed as your 5850......and would be 1.2 dp

Honestly AMD's support for 4K monitors on pre-GCN parts has been sketchy. For a single-tile monitor like the Samsung I'd just as well suggest sticking with GCN. So my vote would be R7 240/250.

 

[lopri]

I have a 290 and been reading about 4K panels of late, and my current educated guess is that Radeons will perform fine as long as all other parts (monitor, connections, refresh rate, etc) are sppeced accurately (easier said than done), and the cards avoids multitasking.

Untill AMD cut more ties between GCN's UVD and CU units/clocks l suspect this horrendous 2D performance may continue. (which was what happened with Fermi, but corrected and improved by Keppler, and which was how things were done in UVD/UVD2.

It's all speculatation though. Someone must have a 4K ruuning on a Radeon and hopefully they ch7me in.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I have a 290 and been reading about 4K panels of late, and my current educated guess is that Radeons will perform fine as long as all other parts (monitor, connections, refresh rate, etc) are sppeced accurately (easier said than done), and the cards avoids multitasking.

Untill AMD cut more ties between GCN's UVD and CU units/clocks l suspect this horrendous 2D performance may continue. (which was what happened with Fermi, but corrected and improved by Keppler, and which was how things were done in UVD/UVD2.

It's all speculatation though. Someone must have a 4K ruuning on a Radeon and hopefully they ch7me in.

I have 4 x R9 290x with 4k monitor and it's running super fine ( Samsung U28D590D)

With Display Port to Display Port connection (GPU to monitor) you really have no issue on this end.

 

[tweakboy]

With that rig karli your PC must have fans too,m it will fly its soo fast.