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basic gpu recommendations for photoshop

Nickolp1974

Nickolp1974

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since he's serious about photoshop, (from a quick glance at google) the gt 240 1gb gddr5 version seems to be recommended a lot for cuda/photoshop. equivalents would be gt 430 or gt 620. so from ocuk's range i'd go for a gt 620 with 1gb ram. your gt 610 has half the number of cuda cores for 2 quid less so you might as well get the 620. also apparently you won't need much more than 512mb of vram at high resolutions for photoshop so that 2gb ver may not be worth it
 
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good friend of his has given him a key for cs6(lucky git) and he is having problems which is why he contacted me, i've read that a shader model 3.0 car is recommended??? and i'm not sure on the size of card he could possibly get in his pc????
Also what advantages would he gain from a dedicated gpu?? (he is a tight git!!)

to add, does not do 3d modelling(maybe autocad), uses RAW an TIFF files though
 
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sorry tbh i'm not at all knowledgeable on this. i just googled a bit and in terms of gpu photoshop, cuda came up, and the gt 240 at least seems to be recommended. the gt620 is probably pretty similar, and is shader model 5.0.

at a complete guess, gpu acceleration would speed things up a fair bit. otherwise non-gpu accelerated mode would just require a good cpu and any gpu capable of displaying a picture, just the same as any other program(?). hopefully someone else can chime in
 
Photoshop doesn't need "CUDA", the 5450 will be more than good enough for photoshop, it just uses OpenGL for acceleration.

If his PC won't fit that 5450, I don't think it'd fit anything else as they're pretty small, low profile cards.
 
thx for your reply's guys, what are the advantages gonna be with a dedicated gpu for photoshop?

The problem he is having is when he opens bridge it crashes and also using the liquify tool also crashes to desktop, now this is probably(ithink) drivers may need updating or possibly cs6 needs patching, trouble is i cant just pop round as he's 200 miles away but coming on thursday so may get him to bring it with him.

I do think the dedicated gpu route is still one to go down for him as he is amazed how quick my pc does certain tasks in photoshop, he may have all the time in the world(retired) but his overall experience should be more enjoyable if things are speeded up a little.
 
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From my experiences with Photoshop, the GPU pretty much helps renders all the filters, which usually is pretty time consuming. I added in a 5670 for my sister for CS5.5 (And Sims 3) and it has helped made Photoshop feel speedier and smoother, which is very important for her art course.

CS6 makes better use of the GPU so the 5450 will be fine. CUDA may help but since CS6 also has support for OpenCL an AMD card will work as well as a Nvidia card.

EDIT: I remember using CS3 and filter rendering was a b***h since that took a while to do, and large images simply lagged photoshop. The new versions with hardware acceleration is much better and smoother as long as you have a decent GPU. Looking at that Dell the onboard Intel must be making it lag for your father-in-law quite a bit... I don't even think it has support for OpenCL!
 
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The best thing about GPU use in photoshop is how smooth everything becomes, and the pixel grid is nice.

Zooming in and out is instant and realtime, rotating is too which is very useful on large images.
 
Looking at the specs maximum dimensions for card can be 4.3 x 7.4 inches


Edit, cant see on the spec sheet what pcie standard its on, will 2.0 still work if its on 1.0? (is it backwards compatable?)
 
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Looking at the specs maximum dimensions for card can be 4.3 x 7.4 inches


Edit, cant see on the spec sheet what pcie standard its on, will 2.0 still work if its on 1.0?
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The 5450 will fit no problems then.

All PCI-E standards are backwards compatible so don't need to worry about that.
 
What version of Photoshop is it? I think cs6 supports open cl acceleration (ati cards), whereas previous versions support cuda acceleration (nvidia cards).
 
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But the asus one linked states 7 x 5.3
Is the msi one any different http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-149-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1711
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That doesn't seem right, with the low profile bracket on and the card being as long as a normal PCI-E slot it should fit in the Dell with space to spare... Unless something in the Dell case is obstructing part of the PCI-E slot?

Do you know which Dell model does he have? Since there's 4 versions of it. Looking at this, the 5450 will fit the first 3 models but not the Ultra Small Foam Factor: http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/...docs/en/Documents/optiplex-780-tech-guide.pdf

If it was able to fit a 330, 4550,3450, etc. then the 5450 should fit in as well since it's about the same size, maybe a tad smaller as them.
 
Its not the smallest one out of the bunch, The msi one according to their site is 6.5 x 2.7, so i'm sure the asus one will fit as there is no way its 2.6 inch wider.

Think its the DT model off the top of my head
 
Then any low profile 5450 will fit.

I found a picture of the inside of the DT model:

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That is definitely more than enough space for a 5450. Heck you can even fit a longer card but I wouldn't risk it due to the PSU.
 
Hey thx for that you have been a great help, one last thing if i order one do you know if i need any extra cables/converters for the psu? He's only here for 4 days from thursday so i'll set it up for him. And thx again
 
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