can this pc do 4K video playbacks smoothly?

[Loonmario]

My brother wants to hook up his computer to a 4K TV as the second display. Will a Radeon RX 560 or a Geforce GTX 1050 TI be good enough for just watching 4K Youtube videos or just 4K stuff in general? (Not Netflix)

Is the cpu I already have going to be a problem?

My limited understanding is that it should play smoothly if I get a video card because it does hardware encoding instead of the cpu right?



Any guidance is welcome. Thank you.


Specs:

Intel i3 4330 lga 1150 cpu 4th Gen
Asrock H81 Pro BTC R2.0 motherboard
G.Skill 2x8GB DDR3-1333 Ram
500w EVGA bronze PSU
500GB Crucial MX500 SSD
Asus DVD-RW
Corsair 200r case

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah those cards would be fine for 4K 2D work. The GTX 1050 Ti 4GB card would be good enough for Netflix 4K.

 

[Loonmario]

Thank you for responding. Would a Geforce GTX 1030 work also? It looks like people are using them in HTPC's so I'm thinking about just getting that one for only $85. Could it do dual displays, one being a 1080p monitor and a 4K TV?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Would a Geforce GTX 1030 work also?

For 4K 2D work? Sure. For dual-monitor work? Sure.

But be careful which outputs your particular card has. And try to get a GDDR5 variant (the original style). The newer DDR4 versions perform about half.

Note that GT 1030 cards (not GTX) only have up to 2GB VRAM, so they can't be used for Netflix 4K.