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Photoshop CS5 Qualified Graphic Cards

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April 29, 2010
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Updating computers to Windows 7 64bit with a new graphics card and need to know Adobe's recommended graphic cards for Photoshop CS5. Is there any information regarding this. They have them listed for Photoshop CS4. I would like to be like a good carpenter and measure twice and only cut once.

Thanks.

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Anonymous

If you read the Release Notes for the AMD/ATI Catalyst

Drivers http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst117ReleaseNotes.aspx under the heading "Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System", you will find:

"OpenGL acceleration might not be available in Photoshop CS5"

and

"Image rotation might not function correctly in Photoshop CS5."

These "Known Issues" have existed since early this year; I am running the Catalyst Drivers from 12/2010, which work just fine.

In other words there are incompatabilities in the AMD drivers and have been for over 6 months. AMD seems to be in no great hurry to fix the problems or support Photoshop.

It pays to read the documentation before you install new drivers or purchase equipment.

Noel Carboni

Legend

bgelfand wrote:
These "Known Issues" have existed since early this year; I am running the Catalyst Drivers from 12/2010, which work just fine.
In other words there are incompatabilities in the AMD drivers and have been for over 6 months. AMD seems to be in no great hurry to fix the problems or support Photoshop.

They've already been fixed as of version 11.5 (been there, tested that). They've just neglected to remove the issues from the release notes.

You really do want to try the current version - Catalyst 11.7. It's a good, solid release.

And, as you imply, the older drivers are always still available.

-Noel

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Burnin Sven

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Hello, this is my first post in the Photoshop forum. Im looking for information on later generation videocards that would work good for Pro photo editing. The case is Im trying to help my daughter to put together a desktop system or just go buy the latest macbook pro or something similar on the PC side. There seem to be now way to just call Adobe here in Sweden and ask what they recommend and while googeling the internet for info I found this thread so Im hoping you guys can help me out a little.

Im a mac guy but I like win too specially win7 which runs very smooth I think anyway. However I personally believe a mac would be easier for her (and for me to help her with problems) but they are mildly spoken a bit pricy when it comes to the good stuff they have. In this case its more a matter of performance though so I guess it comes down to on which platform does Photoshop run best and what videocard of the later models should one go for?

She has a small company focused on writing articles (with photos) for home design magazines and its time to upgrade her computer.

On the mac side I believe the macbook pro 15 or 17 inch with the amd radeon hd 6750m 1 or 2 gig would work. The only pc I have avaliable to compare with is a desktop I put together myself based on an asus mobo p6t-se, i7 930 cpu, ssd harddrive, sapphire hd 5750 1gb gddr5 videocard and 6 gig 1600.

This is a pretty powerful computer that I think would be more than sufficient for her needs but the new generation sandybridge stuff is as I understand way ahead already so I think it would be crazy to buy hardware thats of yesterdays model. So Im kind lost and any advice you can give would be really great.

Thanks

Göran

Noel Carboni

Legend

I like ATI cards because I believe their display drivers are the best engineered.

Personally, I think if I were buying a new workstation video card right now I'd get the VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 6670 at about a hundred bucks. It's quite powerful and doesn't draw too much current nor generate much heat/noise. It can support up to 3 monitors with appropriate cabling.

-Noel

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steve_1949

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thanks I will keep this information .

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Anonymous

Thanks for all your advice.

The Wookiee

Davide M

Adobe Employee

There is a technical document of all the cards that were tested with s CS5 available here:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/831/cpsid_83117.html

This should help you choose a suitable card!

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Hudechrome-sd9sPI

Participating Frequently

Hey! Lots of Metzgers in my extended family, in the Chicago area.

I use the nVidia 9500 series for about $70 bucks. Runs like a cheeta! (well almost!) I replaced a 7300 with it and it is worth the upgrade, but the 7300 ran CS4 in tests quite well.

Phil Griffith

Participating Frequently

Well,that's interesting! The Nvidea GtX 285 is one of the video cards that is approved for premiere cs5 running with the mercury playback engine. A lot of folks are gonna be bewildered by this bit of news.

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tjhb

Participating Frequently

Get a card capable of at least OpenGL 2.0, with at least 512MB of on-board RAM. (Photoshop will find a use for 1GB if you have it.)

If NVIDIA, then a GeForce GTX 285 is currently a very good choice. I don't know current ATI cards.

Zeno Bokor

Inspiring

The price of the GTX 285 skyrocketed in the past months since nvidia basically stopped making anything from GTX 260 and up so there's absolutely no reason to buy one of those cards. If all you'll use is Photoshop then any ~100$ card will do (even cheaper cards will do just fine if you can't spare the money).

Also, no point in worrying about OpenGL 2.0 support as you won't find any PCI-e cards that don't support it (or Shader Model 3.0 for that matter)

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tjhb

Participating Frequently

The price of the GTX 285 skyrocketed in the past months since nvidia basically stopped making anything from GTX 260 and up so there's absolutely no reason to buy one of those cards.

There is absolutely no logic in this sentence. Hard to know what you mean.