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FWG99
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August 3, 2020
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Graphics cards to use the acceleration feature in PS

  • August 3, 2020
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My basic PC is an Ryzen 7 3700x 8 core CPU on an Asus Prime x570-P MoBo with 16Gb DDR4 Ram.

I currently have an Nvidia Quadro K2200 GPU which has 4Gb DDR5 ram built in. I am thinking of upgrading to a more modern card to give me a bit more editing speed on larger files taking full advantage of the Graphics Acceleration feature in PS. Does anyone in the Adobe PS world have any suggestions? Price is a consideration but don't hold back on ideas. I am targeting this post at this forum as I have no interest in playing games and most of the techie forums seem to assume that is all anyone does and all the advice is based on that premiss. Advice / suggestions from like minded users would be infinitely more valuable.

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
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August 3, 2020

I wouldn't change that card yet. It was released in 2014, so it's not that old. The current P-series has only been mainstream for two or three years.

 

This isn't (as Dave points out) a question of increased performance with higher-speced cards. You don't get that. It's more a question of whether it supports the required standards, and that depends as much on the driver as the hardware (up to a point).

 

In other words, it either works or it doesn't. You just want a reasonable amount of VRAM - but with 4GB you should be good for the foreseeable future.

 

I have a P2000 with 5GB in this machine here at work, and a P600 with 2GB in my home machine. Frankly I've never noticed any difference, and otherwise those two machines are almost identically configured.

 

A much more immediate problem is buggy drivers. That's quite unpredictable, but Quadros are specifically targeted for graphics/3D/CAD, not for gaming. They are more expensive than GeForces at similar specs, and I like to think that price difference buys you something 😉 

 

 

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FWG99Author
Inspiring
August 4, 2020

Thanks for the inputs. I will save my money for a while and concentrate on drivers updates.

 

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
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August 3, 2020

At present, Photoshop is not a heavy user of the GPU. Whether that will change in the future, only Adobe know and they tend not to release their future plans.

I recently moved from a GTX1080 (8GBVRAM 2560 Cuda cores) to an RTX2080ti (11GBVRAM 4352 Cuda cores 48 RT cores). I saw a massive difference in render times in Blender 3D, which is why I changed the card. I did not notice a difference in Photoshop.

 

Dave

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