Need advice on choosing a video card.

I am in the process of assembling a newer PC for editing & rendering footage primarily from Nikon dslrs.  I have a 5960X chip, Gigabyte GA-99 MB with 24 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD for C: drive.  At NAB I talked with Adobe, Nvidia & AMD reps and I'm still confused on choosing a video card within reasonable cost and the BEST performance!  My choices so far are the AMD 8100 for ~1000$ & Nvidia 2000 for ~350$, 4000 for ~790$, 4200 for ~890$ and can't afford the 6000.  Of my choices which would be the better choice (or your suggestions)?

None of them. The only sensible choices would be the nVidia GTX 970 or 980.
See Tweakers Page
The AMD is twice the price of the 980 and delivers half the performance. The Quadro K4200 is also overpriced and performs no better than the old GTX 660Ti for around € 275.
Better increase memory to 32 or 64 GB. 24 causes slow performance because of not using the quad channel architecture.

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