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1. Re: Graphics Card spec
Noel Carboni Apr 18, 2012 6:46 AM (in response to John_Picton)I'm personally most fond of ATI as I believe they do a better job with releasing high quality drivers, but others like nVidia. Personal experience figures a lot into recommendations.
Right now I'd specifically recommend the VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 6670 1 GB DDR5, as it doesn't draw too much power and won't tax your computer's power supply, yet delivers quite fast performance.
In general for Photoshop use I'd recommend getting a video card that has 1 GB of RAM or more and scores 1000 or higher on the PassMark benchmark:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
-Noel
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2. Re: Graphics Card spec
John_Picton Apr 18, 2012 8:19 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)Thanks for the input - that is very helpful.
Regards
John
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3. Re: Graphics Card spec
Ashvin Ghisyawan Apr 19, 2012 1:49 AM (in response to John_Picton)Can I use CS5 on al Macbook Air (new one) with a i5 and Ati card?
Do I have to upgrade my memory?
Regards,
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4. Re: Graphics Card spec
Trevor.Dennis Apr 19, 2012 3:16 AM (in response to Ashvin Ghisyawan)John, can you tell us a bit about the rest of your system? You should probably be looking to create a balanced system where components more or less match each other. You should also think about your operating system. Windows 7 64bit with at least 6Gb RAM is a good start, and as Noel said, 1Gb of DDR5 in your graphics card.
But tell us about the rest of your system first.
BTW I live about 30 kilometrea away from a town called Picton.
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5. Re: Graphics Card spec
John_Picton Apr 19, 2012 4:28 AM (in response to Trevor.Dennis)Hi Trevor - If you live near Picton I am assuming you are in New Zealand. I have never been but my neighbor is from near there.
My system is an AMD processor running at 3.2 Ghz with a triple core. I have 4GB of memory installed. I am running Windows 7 professional 64 bit.
It isn't the best system in the world - my other computer (which doesn't have Photoshop on it - I use it almost exclusively for recording) is a quad core system with 8GB memory - but still a bog standard graphics card.
Any suggestions you can make would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
John
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6. Re: Graphics Card spec
Dsel May 28, 2012 7:50 PM (in response to John_Picton)I'm looking at the PNY Quadro2000 nVIDEA it is recommended for the GPU acceleration function of photoshop……….I was lead to believe only nVIDEA supports this.
I am not sure if a pro or workstation card is better than a gaming card. Leadtek also produce a version of this card Quadro2000 nVIDEA……. No idea what differance between the PNy and the Leadtek is as they are both nVIDEA?
It is a 1GB card also.
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7. Re: Graphics Card spec
Curt Y May 28, 2012 8:10 PM (in response to Dsel)Dsel wrote:
I'm looking at the PNY Quadro2000 nVIDEA it is recommended for the GPU acceleration function of photoshop……….
PS CS6 uses Mecury Graphics Engine but not CUDA which I think you are refering to.
CUDA is used in some features with video in Premier Pro.



