RTX 3080 or P4000?

I Cant get 3080 on Photoshop 22 ever since release. Card is detected but not used for acceleration.

I had the same dilemma - GeForce RTX3080 or Quadro RTX4000. I was pretty much settled on the Quadro until I started looking at Nvidia's promo material, videos and stuff. My god. That's some serious ai stuff. I mean, Quadro RTX is what they use in self-driving cars to process all the visual information and keep the thing from bumping into dogs and pedestrians.

In the end I chickened out and just ordered a Quadro P2200. Yes, it's an outgoing model and it will be obsolete at some point, but it'll do everything I need in Photoshop for many years still. And you get some good bargains on it now.

I'm going to watch how this plays out here in the forums. I still see a lot of people having driver issues with GeForces. I know Dave here doesn't, so it could well be just a matter of a well-kept and well-maintained system. Dave does a lot of 3D, and extremely well at that, it must be said. So a GTX3080 makes sense there. But Photoshop doesn't need all that computing power.

What I'm keen to know is how reliable the Studio drivers eventually turn out to be, not for some, but across various configurations. I want statistics. If it turns out that they are indeed significantly more reliable than the game drivers, I'm ready for a GeForce next time. For Photoshop use, a GTX1660 or equivalent will do fine for now.

Either will work well but if you choose the RTX card stick to the Studio Drivers. These are released less frequently but are better tested with graphical applications than the Game-ready drivers.

Dave

Hi

You won't really see any difference between the two GPU's, Photoshop is not really a GPU resource intensive application, although with the most recent version it does require higher spec'd GPU's but any GPU with 4GB of VRam will be fine.

I don't use Lightroom so can't really comment on that but I would say it's pretty much the same as Photoshop with regards to the GPU