what is the best graphics card for sfm

[levronSFM]

my birthdady is kinda coming up next week and i have my dad asked to buy mme graphics card
sooooo what is the best graphics card to not lag
-secondary portviews
-when turn on ao (A.K.A)ambient occlusion
-to increase fps
please answer!!!!!

[Zappy]

Pretty much any decent NVIDIA/AMD one. As long as you have at least a decent GPU, Source Filmmaker will in most cases be limited by the CPU, not the GPU.

[Marco Skoll]

In broad terms, the answer is "a graphics card".

While technically a powerhouse like the GTX 1080 Ti would be better than a lower specification card, SFM is mainly CPU limited, so while it needs a graphics card to actually support all its shaders, it doesn't much matter what graphics card.

I once upgraded from the rather obsolete HD 7570 to the somewhat more up-to-date GTX 750 Ti (roughly twice as powerful), but saw scarcely 1% improvement in the time taken to render a test scene.

With that in mind, I'd strongly suggest using against SFM as your yardstick for picking a graphics card.
I'd suggest choosing a graphics card to be broadly in line with the specification of the rest of your computer, so as to maximise the number of games your computer is up-to-date for.

(However, I can't give specific suggestions without knowing more about your computer's specification, ideally including the rating of the power supply).

[Pte Jack]

anything that is much better than this minimum standard

(NVIDIA GeForce 400 series or AMD Radeon 5000 series preferred)

I use Radeon 5870, 6670 and 7770 video cards without a problem, I also use a Nvidia 1070 when I have to do some power rendering. These cards not only work with SFM, they also work well with Blender in both Blender and cycles render modes and with Substance Painter.

[levronSFM]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

In broad terms, the answer is "a graphics card".

While technically a powerhouse like the GTX 1080 Ti would be better than a lower specification card, SFM is mainly CPU limited, so while it needs a graphics card to actually support all its shaders, it doesn't much matter what graphics card.

I once upgraded from the rather obsolete HD 7570 to the somewhat more up-to-date GTX 750 Ti (roughly twice as powerful), but saw scarcely 1% improvement in the time taken to render a test scene.

With that in mind, I'd strongly suggest using against SFM as your yardstick for picking a graphics card.
I'd suggest choosing a graphics card to be broadly in line with the specification of the rest of your computer, so as to maximise the number of games your computer is up-to-date for.

(However, I can't give specific suggestions without knowing more about your computer's specification, ideally including the rating of the power supply).

i just kinda realize that I don't have graphics card but thank you

[levronSFM]

than you for the answer!!!!