Photoshop GPU Upgrade for 6300 Budget Build

[Arthaei]

Hi guys I have a budget build I’ve tweaked with some surprisingly decent performance for an old system, it’s likely going to my Dad who will predominantly use it for Photoshop and possibly Lightroom work.

Spec is:
ASUs M5A78L-M LX
Amd FX-6300 (overclocked to 4.3ghz)
Hyper X Fury 1866mhz DDR3 16gb ram
Samsung Evo 870 QVO 1TB Ssd
OCZ ModXStream 500w psu
Win 10

It currently has a HD Radeon 6950 2GB gpu in it which I did swap out for a GTX 1070 8GB and it’s great, but I think it’s bottlenecked too much in this system particularly once going above to 1440p res for gaming, so I'm thinking of plugging the 6950 back in as gaming won’t matter to him but Adobe performance will. I’m intending to use the 1070 in a different system.

I don’t want to spend much more money with this build really so I’m wondering what GPU I could pair with it which is going to improve Photoshop 2019 performance or if the 6950 is sufficient?. I’ve seen the GTX 1050ti and GTX 970 and wondering if it is worth going that route.

I’m not building anything new or interested in a new modern budget build as I’ve already upgraded and an old system I paid next to nothing for, so it’s just this GPU question I’m a bit stuck on now.

Thanks for any input!

 

[Arthaei]

Thanks both, that was my gut feeling too. I will put the 6950 back in and hopefully with the overclock and the nippy ssd it should be alright. I would put 32gb ram in but the board won’t take it. I’m thinking I might pick-up an old 4TB mechanical drive for extra photo storage for him too perhaps.