Card for new build

[Digital_hero]

Hay everyone

So slowly my new build is coming together and now my attention turns to my graphics card always fun lmao

basically looking for a run down of of what AMD and Nvidia bring to the table in terms of tec CUDA, Infinity.

I do use Photoshop,capture NX ect to edit my RAW files Iv heard Nvidia could possibly help with this,also if poss i would like to quiet,cool card that pack a punch......i am planning on getting a new moniter never games at high reses before so i would like the option with a card to go to high bigger displays HD ect

My Budget well am saving up all the time for Varese parts so ill save/spend as much as it takes to get what ever is necessary (NOT spending stupid money on TITANS or anything like that though) am just looking for some scope realy £350 - £400

So Far My current Parts I Have

CPU: i7 4441
MOBO: ASUS Z87 Hero
RAM: Corsair Vengance 16GB
PSU: Corsair AX860

 

[Neil79]

As someone who does editing, I'd highly recommend the Nvidia 780. I used to do Photoshop photography editing and Nvidia was a bit of a bonus, not much though

Only went AMD for some game lovin! Previously had a 660

 

[Gregster]

Without knowing the ins and outs of Photoshop/ NX, I do know that any Cuda application is nVidia only, so if it works well in Cuda, it will work well with nVidia

 

[Digital_hero]

Also Anyone Have Any Recomended Vendors Of the 770 and 780 I was looking at Asus And Gigabite Looking on you tube for the fan noises and they sound pretty quiet

Also looked at the ZOTAC they seem pretty quiet but iv never realy heard of ZOTAC before anyone know if their any good ??

 

[LtMatt]

I don't know much about it but i think Adobe, AMD and OpenCL all go hand in hand these days so a 290 card might not be a bad shout.

 

[Digital_hero]

I don't know much about it but i think Adobe, AMD and OpenCL all go hand in hand these days so a 290 card might not be a bad shout.

Iv heard that the AMD R cards get a bit on the warm side......what kind of temps are considered the norm for AMD and NVIDIA jumping in from a ATI 6850 that i got to replace my 8800GT

 

[LtMatt]

Iv heard that the AMD R cards get a bit on the warm side......what kind of temps are considered the norm for AMD and NVIDIA jumping in from a ATI 6850 that i got to replace my 8800GT ��

Only the 290 reference cards get quite warm. AIB 290 cards like the msi 290 gaming edition or sapphire tri x 290 will sit in the 70C+ range.

 

[AllBodies]

What version of Photoshop are you using? Photoshop CC (creative cloud) supports OpenCL as well as CUDA, so it works with Nvidia and AMD. Although to be honest I don't think Photoshop is demanding enough to worry about GPU acceleration anyway when using an i7, unless you're manipulating 30+ Mpixel images.

From what I can gather from their website, Capture NX doesn't support GPU acceleration at all.

You mention you'll be playing at higher resolutions, does this mean 2560x1440 or above? If so you'll be better off going with an AMD R9 290. Not only does it have 4GB of RAM, as opposed to 3GB on the GTX 780, it also has more memory bandwidth, and this helps with higher resolutions.

 

[GefGz]

What version of Photoshop are you using? Photoshop CC (creative cloud) supports OpenCL as well as CUDA, so it works with Nvidia and AMD.

Do I remember reading somewhere that the performance with AMD/OpenCL is far better than Nvidia/CUDA in PS?

Or was it the other way around...

 

[Digital_hero]

Yes i hope to be able to upgrade my display and venture into higher resolutions HD ect

I use photos shop elements 11 and Light room as its rather good for RAW files, 90% of the time i shoot in RAW

 

[AllBodies]

So according to this: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photo...op_elements_11_support_nvidia_cuda_or_amd_app

Elements 11 supports openGL and openCL, but not CUDA. So this means there's no reason to go Nvidia over AMD for that (both support openGL and CL).

And from what I can see Light Room doesn't support GPU acceleration, so you should just go for an i7 CPU for that (which you are doing).

So again it would seem better for you to go for an R9 290 since you want to use 2560x1440 and the programs you've mentioned aren't CUDA only.