Gaming PC and High-intensive Graphics Applications:
As outlined earlier, now it is very clear, if you intend to use your PC for such applications, you must invest your money in a high-end, dedicated graphics card. You have to chose RAM and GPU depending the complexity of application and games that you will run mostly on your computer. Remember, your main system RAM has to be big enough compared to your GPU RAM.
Non-Gaming PCs – Graphics related applications:
Graphics cards also come in handy for the purposes of image and video processing, therefore photographers who work with complex features of photo editing tools like Photoshop can improve the speed of editing with the help of a suitable graphics card.
Web designers who use applications that require rendering of complex graphics can also utilize a graphics card for better performance.
Most video playback do not require a dedicated graphics card and play fine with the integrated GPU of the motherboard, but a few high definition videos, such as a 4K video when played on monitors with a high refresh rate may definitely suffer from lag without a graphics card. It can even crash the whole system for few moments.
As mentioned earlier, a dedicated graphics card can support multiple monitors unlike an integrated GPU; therefore non-gamers who want a GPU to cater to a multi-monitor setup will also require a good graphics card.
So in this case, you can go for a Mid-range to High-end Graphics card, depending on the specific application you will run.
Chose mid-range, if you just do video playback up to Full-HD, and use CAD or Photoshop and similar software occasionally.
Read on to find out how a graphics card may also be beneficial for non-gamers that do not work with graphics or image processing related applications.
UP NEXT: Non-Gaming PCs – Special Applications other than graphics and video editing
