What is the best 4K Video Editing PC Build list for 2024?

Hardware priority chart for a 4K Video Editing PC build

From the chart above, you should dedicate the most resources to getting the best multi-core processor your money can buy. This is because when it comes to video rendering, encoding, or transcoding, the more cores your processor has, the better.

This translates to faster processing times. The next in order of importance is a fast SSD drive for your video editing apps, large amounts of fast RAM, and a large capacity hard disk drive for data storage.  

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What you need for this build

1. Best 4K Video Editing PC build Components
2. Anti-static wrist band
3. Screwdriver

Main components for the best 4K Video Editing PC Build

The Processor

The processor must have at least 8 cores with multi-threading enabled. The 2 CPUs we cover in this guide are more than capable of 4K Video editing.

Motherboard

For the best 4K editing experience, the motherboard must have plenty of ports, preferably a thunderbolt port to enable high-speed footage transfers.

Graphics Card

The Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU is more than capable of 4K Video editing. This for now is Nvidia’s flagship product, and you can’t go wrong with this. You can even edit 8K footage with this CPU.

Graphic cards play an active role in 4K video editing, thanks to the CUDA platform. GPU-accelerated effects in video editing apps such as Adobe Premiere Pro are coded to rely on CUDA for rendering the effects in the video editing timeline. This enables lag-free and fast editing, without having to pre-render the effects in the timeline. This frees the CPU for other tasks, making your 4K video editing workflow much faster.

Video transcoding also relies on the graphics card, especially in apps such as Aiseesoft Media Converter Ultimate, Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate, and others. Hardware transcoding converts your 4K video much faster than a CPU, significantly improving your workflow efficiency.

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