cpu for photoshop

[Alex h]

whats the best cpu for photoshop

 

[joeyjojo]

Anything from the past four years. Unless you're doing big batches of things and time=money.

 

[jamesfreddie]

Whats your budget?

Are you looking at doing a new build?

 

[reflux]

Anything from the past four years. Unless you're doing big batches of things and time=money.

This. Depends on your usage. For web design and the like, you don't need much... any Core 2 Duo or above should do.

 

[Purgatory]

Alex if it's for work and you want really good performance and use many plugins, then a 2600k or 2700k (with 16GB ram) and a Nvidia card so you can use the GPU accelerated features on Photoshop CS 5.5.

If it's for general photo editing and for home use as others have said a dual core CPU will do.

 

[eddiew]

Intel i5 or i7, definitely! I have just today obtained my new i5 for Photoshopping purposes after much research. The i7 is slightly faster - but you're generally talking a few seconds in a minute's worth of filters. Either tends to be very significantly faster than AMD (as in nearly twice as fast).

Here's one of (the many) benchmarks you can find on the matter:

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...age-Processing-Adobe-Photoshop-CS-5,2426.html

 

[reflux]

and a Nvidia card so you can use the GPU accelerated features on Photoshop CS 5.5.

Is this a new feature in 5.5 - I thought the GPU-acceleration was limited to OpenGL and would run on any cards?

 

[Purgatory]

Is this a new feature in 5.5 - I thought the GPU-acceleration was limited to OpenGL and would run on any cards?

Yes they should work on any card ... I had an ATI 5870 before on latest drivers at the time and humm some of the features didn't work that well or caused strange effects while using them or worse crashed photoshop. I recently updated to a Nvidia GTX 580 and non of these problems are present now and it just works as designed mate. Also other Adobe products use CUDA acceleration (Adobe Premiere Pro). Yes you need to use a hack for a GTX 580 for it to work but it does work and same for other GTX cards not officially supported

Have a read here you will see what I mean.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/adobe-cs5-cuda-64-bit,2770.html

 

[Alex h]

thanks for the replys ive got a i5 sandybridge its for my wife didnt know if it needed hyperthreading like video editing

 

[buzzlightweight]

i can create HDR images in a fraction of the time that my friends 2 core does, that said i have seen a machine with 8gb of 1600MHz ram core i3 2nd gen ati 6570 and an M4 ssd run images very fast

 

[eddiew]

thanks for the replys ive got a i5 sandybridge its for my wife didnt know if it needed hyperthreading like video editing

I think that's a case of "need" vs "would benefit from" PS will use hyperthreading, but as said already, not to a great extent. Benchmarks I've seen generally gain a few seconds per minute of filters.

Sandybridge-E on the other hand... I think rocks its world with another pair of proper cores