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Quadro???

Urbanfreestyle

Urbanfreestyle

Urbanfreestyle

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Hi all,

I have been looking at getting a graphics card to go with my photo editing rig and have had someone tell me to look at Quadro series from Nvidia.... has anyone heard of these and are they any good for photo editing?
I will be using Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC as well as Penetration Testing within Kali Linux.

This is my Kit so far:

Processor: Intel i5 4690K (Devils Canyon)
Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 3
Ram: 2x 2gb OCZ OZ3 DDR3 Platinum
2x 2gb OCZ OZ3 DDR3 Gold
HDD1: 2TB Western Digital Green
HDD2: 2TB Western Digital Green
HDD3: 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP

SSD1: 128gb Toshiba THNSNH
SSD2: Not sure yet
Graphics card:VTX3D Radion HD7700 1gb
Power supply:EVGA NEX650G
Case: NZXT Source 340 with custom Vinyl.
Wifi NIC: Edimax N300
 
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No problems, thanks for trying!
I'm just thinking of the GPU acceleration for these programs. I would love to get a mega expensive card but i'm really looking more toward a sub £100 card that will do the job. The VTX3D Radion HD7700 1gb i am getting is from a friend of mine for £20.
 
Lightroom doesn't use any sort of GPU acceleration. At least v4 doesn't, not sure about 5. Edit - don't go in for all this cloud nonsense, looks like latest versions do use GPU.

I also use premiere pro cs5.5 fir video work, for this you need an nvidia card with just 1gb ram+ and a reasonable amount of Cuda cores. If you're not looking to spend much at all I think an nvidia 720 would probably be enough.
For your average user, it's still all about raw CPU power and multiple threads if you can
 
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I'm on CC and see it does support GPU acelleration but didn't know if the Quadro was overkill, I know the K5000 cards are silly money.
Thanks for the advice, i think i'll stick with the standard card for now then :-)
 
get i7 47xx or Xeon E3 12xxV3 first of all, not 4690K. I suppose you have it already, so maybe consider swapping that. that will be the biggest boost.

don't bother with quadro unless you can source one cheaply.

also older cards 570/680 etc tend to work better than newer ones in these applications, as they were not that cut down.
 
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not bought the 4690k yet... been keeping my eyes on one on here. what would the xeon give over the i5? sadly i can't afford the i7 but i don;t think i need that much just yet.
 
Xeons are generally more cores and threads at lower speeds to keep the TDP low(ish) better for actual work, chips like the 4690K are for gaming and more general stuff.
 
i would only use a quadro if you can get one very cheep. (i have one, but it was free...)
From what i hear Nvidia are better for PhotoShop than gaming AMD cards, although i think the newer gaming AMD are possibly OK (i dont have much knowledge of this though!).

My understanding is: Quadro cards are designed to render very large files WITHOUT making an error. This is important when rendering a large videos, but i dont think it is too important when only rendering a single photo/image, as redoing it is not a major problem, like it would be with a video that took hours to render.
Quadro cards usually have more vRam, but again would Photoshop use this much vRam?
I have an old AMD card that works well (i am trying to use the quadro to see if it is better, but that's a problem i have in another thread)

PS. i think for general Photoshop users an i5 will be fine (in fact good, but not "the best"), unless you are working with LOTS of open files and in very high print res files.
I used photoshop for years with an old AMD dual core. it can be a little slow these days if working with multiple very high res images, but was OK for general 300DPI and 72DPI images, as long as i didnt open too many files all at once. I suppose it depends how fast you need to work.

Lost of system RAM is good for photoshop
 
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Urbanfreestyle said:
so for starting off i should be fine with the 7700
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i would say so.

As you see from prices, they are not "the best" options but i also dont think they are bad options either.
My setup that i used with lots of photoshop for years (some 300dpi for print but most was web based 72dpi), was:
AMD x64 4200+ dual core (your i5 is MUCH better!!!)
AMD 4850 (again your HD7700 is MUCH better).

if you are making lots of money, and "time becomes money" than consider an expensive Xeon CPU and an expensive Quadro card. Other than this your setup will be fine with most Photoshop tasks.
 
Sadly at this point i'm not making enough to warrant it... I'm struggling to warrant buying what i have so far!
I can't afford any processor this month at least as i'm all out of spare money but hopefully next month i'll have a bit spare. I may even get a G series just to get it booting and loading.
 
though you had an i5, that's better than a G series. but a G series will also be fine for most average Photoshop needs (they are still much better then my old AMD x64).
I find photoshop likes ram more than anything else (i had 8GB in my old PC, and this was mostly fine)
 
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