NVIDIA CUDA or AMD OpenCL? Which card to go with?

Question

Hi, it's time to upgrade my video card in my desktop. Right now, I have the MSI N660 Gaming 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card on a ASRock z97 Extreme6 motherboard.

I'm replacing it as it's glitching a lot in Photoshop when I use the brush tool in ACR. I've tried several different versions of a driver and clean install of Windows, etc.

I've been reading about CUDA and OpenCL. Some people say that Nvidia is better due to CUDA but more are saying that OpenCL is better.

Any thoughts or opinions? I just want a card that will do very well in PS.

Thank you!

JROP · Accepted Answer

I found this, never had a Quadro card before (actually, my old workstation from work had one that I took home after it retired) and wonder if this would work well for me?

Adobe Photoshop CC - GPU Accelerated Tools | NVIDIA

Chuck Uebele · Answer

It's odd, with some versions of PS Nvidia cards work best and others AMD cards work better. Kind of a crap shot.

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