2018-07-28, 05:13
No, you won’t benefit from more or faster VRAM.
The RX 580 isn’t that bad for madVR. You can upscale at high quality with some adjustment to chroma upscaling and maybe dithering. You will be able to use medium settings for 4K content, which is more than enough. If you can get a GTX 1060 for the same money, it is a better card overall. The frame cadence issue is not that important and not really noticeable. If it really bothered you or you actually noticed, you could create a custom resolution in madVR.
madVR can be overkill for just getting the color to the screen. But it does do a great job of upscaling anything. There is a lot of other processing available for things such as improving bad or average sources. You can get the most dramatic improvement to SDR content by buying a colorimeter and creating a 3D LUT display calibration. This can be like getting a new display.
You can’t actually use madVR with Kodi without an external player, though. There is DSPlayer 17.6, but there is no active developer, so there is no guarantee of a v18.
If you do buy a graphics card for madVR, buy one with a quiet fan. It uses the GPU like a video game, which can get noisy with a budget card. Look up a review of the model you want with a noise test. The gaming models can be very silent. I’ve owned one card that was not and hated it.
The RX 580 isn’t that bad for madVR. You can upscale at high quality with some adjustment to chroma upscaling and maybe dithering. You will be able to use medium settings for 4K content, which is more than enough. If you can get a GTX 1060 for the same money, it is a better card overall. The frame cadence issue is not that important and not really noticeable. If it really bothered you or you actually noticed, you could create a custom resolution in madVR.
madVR can be overkill for just getting the color to the screen. But it does do a great job of upscaling anything. There is a lot of other processing available for things such as improving bad or average sources. You can get the most dramatic improvement to SDR content by buying a colorimeter and creating a 3D LUT display calibration. This can be like getting a new display.
You can’t actually use madVR with Kodi without an external player, though. There is DSPlayer 17.6, but there is no active developer, so there is no guarantee of a v18.
If you do buy a graphics card for madVR, buy one with a quiet fan. It uses the GPU like a video game, which can get noisy with a budget card. Look up a review of the model you want with a noise test. The gaming models can be very silent. I’ve owned one card that was not and hated it.
