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New Photoshop (CS4) will use GPU power

Just had a quick shot in Photoshop CS4 and I must say I'm rather impressed. Had a go at editing enormous images and you can tell the GPU is being used.

Was a bit worried that this was going to be Nvidia only, but the Preferences menu has a GPU Settings box that detects my graphics card fine.
 
Talrinys said:
Why launch Larrabee then? Wasn't it supposed to be exactly for these tasks, and not as a standard gaming card?
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I know it's a bit late now, but the thread's been bumped.

I'll say this, Intel used to make FP co-processors, too, until it had the transistor budget to whack it onto the CPU core. I tell you, this is EXACTLY what Intel are doing with Larrabee, not for graphics processing, no that'll be a secondary priority for lower-end CPUs, but for hugely scalable, maths heavy workloads. Long story short; pulling GPGPU out from under the mainstream GPU maker's feet.

Also, Reflux, thanks for the thoughts, good to know ATi hasn't been left out in the cold.
 
Wee screenie fer yer...

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Holy cow, what a bunch of geeks that get excited over the smallest thing! :D

Some of you are ridiculous, I mean in the grand scheme of things what does this GPU-intergrated-into-Photoshop CS actually mean? :confused:

I use photoshop everyday, a fast dual-core and a few gig of fast ram (as well as nice disks) deals with most tasks just fine! :cool:

It's always a good thing to see technology moving forwards but cmon . . . some of you are getting a bit too excited about all this! :p
 
Im sure for people who deal with RAW photos and large photoshop files this will be most benificial. I remember dealing with some huge photoshop files during my Graphic Design course at Uni which would grind my system to a sluggish pace (3.5ghx dual core, 4gb ram etc,)
 
Big.Wayne said:
Holy cow, what a bunch of geeks that get excited over the smallest thing! :D

Some of you are ridiculous, I mean in the grand scheme of things what does this GPU-intergrated-into-Photoshop CS actually mean? :confused:

I use photoshop everyday, a fast dual-core and a few gig of fast ram (as well as nice disks) deals with most tasks just fine! :cool:

It's always a good thing to see technology moving forwards but cmon . . . some of you are getting a bit too excited about all this! :p
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It's a little hard to get excited at the moment, as I'm not sure what part of my workflow this will actually improve. I do know however, anything that better utilizes the processing power of my computer to let me do less editing and more shooting, is something to be relatively excited about!
 
Just got CS4 and the GPU acceleration helps a lot on the massive high res files with multiple layers that i work with. Even on a computer as fast as mine, but it all depends on what you do, simple photo editing wont really see much improvement unless you have a very slow CPU.
 
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Big.Wayne said:
Holy cow, what a bunch of geeks that get excited over the smallest thing! :D

Some of you are ridiculous, I mean in the grand scheme of things what does this GPU-intergrated-into-Photoshop CS actually mean?

It's always a good thing to see technology moving forwards but cmon . . . some of you are getting a bit too excited about all this! :p
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Well, excuse me for being glad that the most expensive part in my PC can be used for something other than gaming!

This is exciting because it's something new.

yashiro said:
Seems poor Mac users will have a long wait for this (x64). Oh how times have changed.
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Lol @ Macs. Sorry, I can't help it, my boss uses one and he never stops going on about it. Oh how times have changed indeed.
 
It's exciting software, but Adobe are just shooting themselves in their respective feet in regards to pricing.

I abhor piracy in PC gaming, but I'm surprised Adobe can get away with charging such enormous amounts for their software - I expect I'll still be using CS4, but I won't be extending my overdraft.

Imagine the influx of customers they'd receive if they lowered the price down to, say, £99 per application. I'd buy PSCS4, most graphics/photography/art students would buy it, amateurs would buy it. At the moment, they may as well whack the software on torrent sites themselves.
 
Tonnes of businesses will buy it, the place I work at does not really need it yet still automatically buys tonnes of licences, do you think Adobe, MS (Office) etc make their profit from individuals?

Another question, is Nvidia still claiming exclusive "CUDA" on CS4? Or is "CUDA" a marketing term for DirectX acceleration, just like podcasts are marketing for "streaming MP3". I saw it running on an ATi machine and the acceleration worked fine. Hope the ATi boxes add CUDA next to the other features now!
 
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Yeah Adobe pricing IS ridiculous, it dont matter if they make most of there profit from companies, in other countries like the US of A holes it's massively cheaper, even compared to the usual price increase for the UK.

I proudly own an illegal CS4 copy.
 
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CUDA may be utilised in plugins on your GeForce/Quadro cards but thankfully CS4 utilises OpenGL 2.0 for speeding up such things as image rotation and zooming. ATI cards accessing Adobes Imaging Foundation (OpenGL and Direct3D) will gain a boost in performance as well :)
 
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MR.B said:
Yeah Adobe pricing IS ridiculous, it dont matter if they make most of there profit from companies, in other countries like the US of A holes it's massively cheaper, even compared to the usual price increase for the UK.

I proudly own an illegal CS4 copy.
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Its out? Or is the illegal copy out and not the legal one.
 
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