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Best graphics card for video editing and photoshop

Mr Gimp

Mr Gimp

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This is something I have wondered for a little while and I'm hoping someone can shed a bit of light on it for me.

I'm assuming that as the majority of the Adobe suite supports OpenGL acceleration, something like an nVidia Quadro series GPU would be the best bet, but they're priced out of reach of most mortals?

Are there any alternatives? Would a card with a decent amount of memory onboard be more beneficial than just any other graphics card?
 
If its video encoding that can use cuda then get a normal nvidia 9800gt or similar depending on your budget.
 
So going for anything remotely new will have little to no benefit at all over using something like and 8800 /9800/whatever they're calling them these days?
 
eatcustard said:
Photoshop like ram and fast hard drives over a graphics card
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I take it you've not used Photoshop then.

PS has always needed a well matched cpu/ram combo but they now offer gpu acceleration as well.

Nvidia is your best bet, (had no problem with my nv stuff but a few with my ati stuff) anything with a large amount of ram but also reasonably quick will do.
 
lay-z-boy said:
I take it you've not used Photoshop then.

PS has always needed a well matched cpu/ram combo but they now offer gpu acceleration as well.

Nvidia is your best bet, (had no problem with my nv stuff but a few with my ati stuff) anything with a large amount of ram but also reasonably quick will do.
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Obviously you don't either...
Open Gl drawing is what the GPU is used for, and just about any GPU can do the business.
The only thing else that uses the GPU is some niche 3rd party filters that support CUDA.

Sorry but YOU don't know what your talking about.

For the Op. PS loves the following in order.

1)CPU
2)RAM
3)Scratch Disk (Pretty much just as important as RAM and ideally should be from ram, and if not maybe a nice fast SSD setup)
4) GPU, pretty much any GPU will do.


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Oh and Neither my 8800GTX 4870 or 5870 have ever given me any issues in photoshop, infact I can't imagine how a GPU ever could especially as photoshop has only just started using the GPU for drawing in photoshop CS4.
 
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