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vincel39119737
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January 6, 2017
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How important is the graphics card in Illustrator

  • January 6, 2017
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Hi There !,

I would like to know how important is the graphics card is in the utilisation of Illustrator. Right now I have a few machine running with Quadro K620 and 8 core FX CPU, 16G Ram and an SSD. When Big files are being opened things slow down quite alot so i'm wondering what shoud be upgraded in the set-up. I'm thinking of stepping up to an RX480/GTX1060/70 but I'm not sure if it will be worth it ?

Thank's in advance for the input.

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Correct answer John Mensinger

Hard to know whether it will be worth it. The K620 is among the "thinner" models, with only 2GB on-board memory, and pretty narrow memory bandwidth. I'm running a K2200 and have no speed issues. Your reference to "big files" being an ingredient in the slowdown leads me to suspect you might benefit from setting up some dedicated scratch space just for Illustrator. I have a 56GB VHD carved aside on my SSD for that, and it seems to make a positive difference.

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John Mensinger
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John MensingerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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January 6, 2017

Hard to know whether it will be worth it. The K620 is among the "thinner" models, with only 2GB on-board memory, and pretty narrow memory bandwidth. I'm running a K2200 and have no speed issues. Your reference to "big files" being an ingredient in the slowdown leads me to suspect you might benefit from setting up some dedicated scratch space just for Illustrator. I have a 56GB VHD carved aside on my SSD for that, and it seems to make a positive difference.

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January 7, 2017

I actually did set around 30Gb of scratch disk on the SDD. When I'm talking about big files I mean +/- 1-2gb file with alot of shapes etc ! Thank's for the input John

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