So when you see something in the comments, once you think,
okay, I'll answer you see twice you like, I think I just
answered it to another guy.
But you see, three times, you think how many people are
wondering the same thing when you see it loads of times, you
think Flippin, heck, it's time to make a video.
So today, photographers there's too many of you is making the
same mistake.
So we need to talk about that mistake to make sure that the
views are making this again.
Don't you worry about these boxes?
They're all empty.
I don't own that many graphics cards,
only one or two that I'm constantly using.
The point is photographers.
You are all responding your PC Budget on a graphics card.
There's too many comments that I have seen that say, oh, look,
I'm trying to build myself a PC, go to or I5 or Ryzen five,
maybe ryzen 7 and i7.
But then GPU is rtx 3070 3080 3090 something like that.
And I'm like, whoa.
This is a big, big, big waste of money like big time
literally, like, gives you 0 performance in return when you
are a photographer.
So let's dive a little bit deeper into that.
Why is it bad to spend too much Budget on a graphics card when
you are a photographer?
So if you're editing photos in Lightroom classic, or photoshop,
in fact, let's add any other type of photo editing software
in the mix, you know, Affinity photo.
What else is there?
Maybe illustrator anything else?
then graphics cards give you zero performance.
You can see this on my channel.
I made a video before we build something similar like this one.
Except this one is a little better over here.
We built a wide build with the Ryzen 5700 G this one.
And this process is like the most powerful AMD Apu at the
moment.
And he's about to launch some more stuff in a moment.
And we've got the laptop abused and stuff coming out.
But 5700 G.
So what I did was I built the PC, then benchmark the PC
without the graphics card, just the integrated graphics card,
right on Lightroom, classic Photoshop.
And then I thought, you're not interesting to see how good it
is when we add a graphics card to the system.
So I added an RTX 3060 TI, which is a very, very powerful
graphics card, ran the benchmarks again.
And believe it or not, I literally got 0%
performance increase.
But I spent another, I don't know, eight hundred thousand
dollars, actually, when you're in the us, it's probably more,
yeah, about thousand dollars extra on a graphics card.
So that's when I realized that dedicated graphics card for
photo editing and give a zero performance increase.
In fact, sometimes it was actually lower than the
original one with the dedicated graphics card.
So literally, honestly, there is no difference when adding a
graphics card over there.
Instead, you should be spending your budget for a PC on a CPU.
All the photo editing gets done on the CPU.
So the better CPU have the faster video editing you will
see on your PC.
So now maybe you are thinking I5 but you know an okay
graphics card somewhere in the middle ground over there, but
now be able to go into i7 or I9 and then pull down the budget
from your dedicated graphics card, and then just spend it on
the CPU.
Honestly, this is why you should be spending your money
when you are a photographer or a photo editor on a PC.
But when you also choose a CPU, there's also a few different
aspects that you need to consider when choosing one.
For example, what are you doing in your workflow?
And do you want the CPU to be good at doing that?
For example, if you're doing a lot of editing or working on
the phone photos, then a single core performance of a CPU is
very, very important.
So I highly recommend you go check out cinebench R23
single-core benchmarks online or geekbench 5 single core
benchmarks there you really see like which CPU is good at
actually working on the photos.
Secondly, if you want your PC to be good at exporting the
photos of putting them together, or rendering them to a
different file from raw to dng, or from raw to Tiff too raw to
jpegs, then the multi core performance is very important.
The CPU, because if you have loads of photos, for example, a
wedding photographer, then you might have thousands of photos
per day that you exporting.
If you're doing a lot of that or converting than the
multi-core is important to you.
So find the processor that's good for you.
In the middle ground over there, very high single core is like
needed for everybody.
But when you open the processor, let's say from rising five to
seven to nine or from I-5 to i7 to I9, then that will give you
the better export performance.
There isn't that big of a difference between I5 and I9
for example, when you're working on a photos.
But there is a massive difference when exporting the
photos are doing stuff that the multi, or many cause of the CPU
can utilize this.
And if you're looking for something in the Middle Ground,
i7 is really like very, very good bang for buck really in
the Middle Ground there, what you can get on ryzen, I'd
really go with the lower of the ryzen nine, because ryzen nine,
there's to this
5950 X and 5900 X.
I would go for the 5900 X, because that would be like the
best bang for buck over there.
Although if you just comparing I7 12700k and then 5900 X, I'd
probably go with the I7 12700k, because it has quite a few
benefits.
For example, because of the igpu if you're a photographer,
and that is solely what are you doing?
And what you really want to optimize a system at you might
not even need a dedicated graphics card depending on you
know, your screen that you're using, but you could, if you
have multiple screens, then maybe you're struggling a
little Lil Bit and put another graphics card there, just
anything you can find that then you can run multiple screens.
But if you have one screen, maybe something big that you
just using, then you can just run that on the igpu that is on
the Intel chips, which is just going to save you thousands of
pounds when you are a photographer, but gives you
exactly the same editing
performance and last of all, the mixed workflow of people.
So let's say you are not just the photographer.
Okay?
Then I get why you might need a graphics card for as well.
For example, if you're doing a lot of video editing as well as
photo editing, then yes, you do need a graphics card.
Now, the Nvidia graphics cards are very good at playing back
some of the Codex.
But also, if you go with the Intel chips, the intel ships
have I gpus inside.
So you can use their decoders on the CPU.
But still, think about what you are doing most with your PC.
If you're doing mostly video editing, then yep, you might
want a 3070 or something like that, because that's like a
great middle ground and GPU over there.
If you are doing a lot of photo editing, then by all means,
please don't go above 3060, because it's just will be waste
of time in your workflow in your system.
Obviously, if the budget is not an issue, a 13 90 is the cast
for you, because it's the best out there.
Wait a second.
I have to correct myself.
It's actually 1390 ti now, because they've released a new
one, or as Nvidia likes to call them tie.
It's not tie, its ti.
But if you're trying to kind of get the best bang for buck PC
for photo editing or in a mixed workflows, then probably 30 70
or 3060 TI are the best bang for buck cards right over there.
Obviously gaming yeah, gaming.
When you're doing that, then obviously the better graphics
card you have, the more you know FPS you going to get, and
the better is going to be, if you just purely working on your
PC, which we are focusing on, then in a mix workflow, yes,
you might need a
graphics card.
I recommend 30 60 as a starting point, and really think if you
need anything else, because you can very easily over spend it
on your system to stay tuned when we're going to talk about
this PC, when the 3060 is going to come for this one at the
moment,
there's 30 70 in there, but when we Benchmark this with a
30 60, you'll see it's going to be very, very impressive.
So, photographers, please don't the mistake of overspending on
your GPU.
You don't need a very high end GPU.
And if you have a mixed workload, then yeah, you might
need a GPU.
If you're someone who does a little bit of work photo
editing on the side, then yeah, just you might need a GPU.
But if the main thing is photo editing that you do, then you
do not need a high end GPU.
Hopefully this saved you a little bit of money when you're
planning your build and your budget.
I'd love to know what you think.
Let me know in the comment section below likes of enjoyed
it.
So so if you'd like to see more, and I'll see you next time, bye,
bye.