[mkohman]

i'm struggling to see a use for an NVIDIA card there IMHO, their advantages are with their processing power but you wont need much to upscale 1080p, my lowly RX550 does it very well, I have almost seamless playback on mine. I do have a small issue on mine I havent got to the bottom of. When playing 10 bit video its ouputting incorrect colours, its very red, to resolve this I have to set DCI-P3 calibration settings in MADVR but that corrects it. Nobody else on the MADVR forum has this issue so it must be a problem with my setup and not the card itself. Otherwise it prefect, no dropped frames, skips, just smooth playback on KODI DS and MPC.

I honestly think you'd do well with an RX560 but we should maybe wait for @brazen1 to chime in here to see what he feels, we argue a lot about NVIDIA vs AMD but I do generally respect his views and they seem to come from a good place, he wouldnt be here helping people otherwise.

@BRAZEN1  - what do you think?  

Thank you so much @mclingo I am leaning more towards the AMD now.. I have never had issues with AMD but I always hear about the hype of the NVIDIA cards.. I just want the 
best possible image from the GPU .. I mean does a same power AMD and NVIDIA looked same in terms of shading image etc with 4K video or is one card superior than the other.

It would be nice to have 3D working with no issues.. I use DSPLAYER with its own video player not an external player like MPC-HC or the MPC-BE.. Can you tell me what benefit it has to use an external player in DSPlayer please or if there is one.. ? Also I have windows 64bit.. Shall I use the x86 or x64bit of DS player? Thank you so much and sorry for so many questions .. Thanks     

 Hi, there is no difference in image quality on the cards, its all about power, the more power a card has the more tricks you can load from MADVR's rendering tool box, its as simple as that. However there are diminishing returns the higher quality the image you have to start off with, a 4k image is already very good as is a 1080p image so it could be argued that unless have images to improve you dont need the extra power from a more expensive card.

You dont need an external player with DS, the whole point of DS is that its built in, MADVR has been built into DS so you dont have to use an external player like MPC-HC with madvr bolted on. My DS plays everything perfectly (3D/HDR/4k/4k HDR) on my RX 550 it really does, i'd like a bit more power to mabe sharpen up my 1080p movies a little and to deal with the small amount of 720p stuff I have, I intend to buy a 570 when prices drop.

I'd still wait to hear form an NVIDIA user though, best to get both sides of the coin even if it does seems stacked in AMD's favour right now.   

Thank you.. I also use DSPlayer but couldn't understand why some use external players thats why I was asking.. I also have no issues with any format but I haven't delved into 4K yet.. Awaiting my projector first. I think I will need a new PSU and a new HTPC case in order to fit the new card.. Do I need to have more than 4GB ram in my PC or is that sufficient ?  Also I only have an intel i3... 

I have just purchased a RX580 4GB Nitro for £98.. from eBay .. These cards are usually £380.. ?? Either I got super lucky or scammed lol However I have Paypal so they will refund no doubt but the seller has 100% feedback so maybe they weren't aware of current prices.. In any case this is what I bought.. any good?

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/4gb-sapp...2xhdmi?v=c

https://drive.google.com/open?id=17G9LSJ...kjKeru5-jI