CS5 Photoshop/ GPU?

cu3ed · 11 Jul 2011 at 19:56

Just a curiosity more than anything, but how good a GPU do you need to get the most out of the likes of photoshop CS5 with pretty large graphics and plenty of layers?

Ive noticed it stuttering a little or "pausing" when using the transformation tool for some graphic work, I have 8GB of RAM, win 64 CS5 64bit, but the graphics card isnt brilliant.

EGuitarStar · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:59

There are certain NVIDIA cards which photoshop supports for certain features which improves performance vastly. However, I used to have a Radeon 5850 1GB card and used to work with RAW images 30-40MB each without issues.

There is quite a bit of info available on the web regarding NVIDIA and Adobe support.

GravyMonster · 12 Jul 2011 at 14:58

I'm not sure how much of a difference GPU power makes. My work machine is a Q9400 with 8Gb of ram and onboard graphics and I quite often have to work on 100+Mb PSDs with hundreds of layers (thanks to messy designers) and don't notice any slow down or lack of performance.

Draeger · 12 Jul 2011 at 15:02

Work machine is the one in my sig below, no issues here running CS5 PS also sometimes with Fireworks open in the background.

cu3ed · 12 Jul 2011 at 15:04

Cheers, I have sitting here an Ati 6570 to install as the weakest thing at the mo was the current card (cant remember its name), so will give that a bash.

It was more a curiosity than anything.