gpu's and adobe stuff..

[matzhouse]

Hey guys,

it's my first post! hello all, been reading for a while but been finishing uni so no i'm free to start thinkin about building a monster.

Was just wondering what differences different gpu's make to things like photoshop, illustrator, premiere pro, and after effects?

for my final project at uni i did some stuff with CUDA programming on an 8800 so kinda interested in that, but probably have more use fro creative stuff at the mo (im a web developer)

cheers for any thoughts..

mat

 

[Teaf]

As far as I'm aware in respects of Photoshop, graphics card makes no difference at all.

 

[Naffa]

Yeah, things such as you mentioned rely upon the CPU more so than the GPU.

 

[jaykay]

I think for adobe all you need is lots of memory (512mb), im too sure though.

 

[matzhouse]

ok cool..

was just checking cos i think things like after effects can use them for rendering, but probs doesnt make a lot of difference..

cheers
mat

 

[Boogle]

I'm pretty sure it uses DirectDraw, so you'll want a card with plenty of VRAM. But the GPU itself won't have much of an impact at all, 2D was maxed out long ago.

 

[FreeStream]

I think for adobe all you need is lots of memory (512mb), im too sure though.

heh, bit more than that if your talking raw from D-SLRs (2Gb then) and if your bigger than that or multiple images, 4Gb +