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Best GPU for Adobe CS?

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I'm not very familiar with GPU's so, I could use some help here. Which GPU's are best for use with Adobe CS - AMD/Radeon or NVidia? I have been under the impression that NVidia was best due to their CUDA-cores and Mercury thing?

Do I really need a discrete GPU at all? What are the signs to look for that would suggest to me that I should get a discrete GPU? Will the HD4000 integrated graphics be fine (i7) for Adobe CS? We'll have the Adobe CS 6 sometime soon.
 
Adobe supports openCL now as well.

You really don't need a discrete GPU unless you know that the GPU can help you in specific tasks that you'll be using. There really aren't all that many, though.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,3208-13.html

You're better off buying a GPU due to image quality and at least some acceleration. If you go by the above benchmarks, it doesn't have to be an expensive GPU but rather one that supports GPGPU acceleration, whether CUDA or openCL.

If I were you, I'd spring for a 7750. openCL seems to be gaining traction faster than CUDA lately
 
what Abobe program are you using?

what version of CS?

ether way I can't imagine those program needing any decent juice from dedicated GPU's, the integrated ones on the Sandy/Ivy bridge processors should be plenty good
 
Thanks for that, pelo.

Salanmon, we've been using Adobe CS 4 but, plan to get the new CS 6. After we get our new i7 Ivy build next week or so then, we'll get the CS 6 by Xmas time.

I've always had to use onboard graphics so, I don't have any experience with GPU's and wouldn't know what's best for me and our small business.

We will have to start making our own product description videos as well as power-point lectures and we'd like to be able to create our own HD 1080p documentary DVD's.

Here she is:

CPU: Ivy Bridge i7 3770
HSF: CM 212 Evo
MB: Gigabyte z77 UD5
RAM: Mushkin 8g DDR3 1600
SSD: Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe - DX 240g
HD: WD Black 1T 64mb cache
PSU: Seasonic X-750w
Case: Antec One Illusion (w/4 fans)
OS: Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit

GPU: I was considering the NVidia 660 TI ???

Is 8g of RAM enough?
 
Get an AMD gpu, the 7750 advice was fine. CS6 is openCL accelerated.
I'd get 16gb of ram. It's dirt cheap, and for photoshop and video work would be wise to have it.
 
Yea, you really shouldn't be buying the Kepler GPUs unless you're planning on gaming but considering this is a workhorse then go with a GCN-based AMD GPU. 7750 should be fine
 
As said before the 660 is overkill of a card, and we dont known when it will drop. Not to mention the 7750 is badass for the price.
 
What about the 7770? But wouldn't I be better off with 2g of memory for working on video?

If I spend the hard earned cashola on a decent GPU I certainly want it to play new video games at decent settings though - for when I'm chilling out and taking a "break."

So, what's the NVidia equivalent to the 7770? Or is NVidia just overpriced?

I'm really sorry, I just don't know squat about GPU's. I mean, I read a few articles here and there to see what's new, but, I've just never had a real GPU so, I have no hands on experience with 'em. I've always had AMD systems with onboard graphics (LOL) so, this will be my first Intel system.
 
nVidia's new architecture is very poor in GPGPU so you want to stick to AMD this round.

No, the 2GB won't help you when working on video. More RAM will, though.

The 7770 should be a good card for you if you plan on gaming as well.
 
ive been using CS5.5 with my current setup and i suggest 16GBs. with a 3-4 minute clip in AE i max out RAM in preview with 1080p footage.

with my 2600K bumped to 4.5GHz im pretty happy with performance but that is coming from an old Q9400 Yorkfield. ive never experienced GPU-acceleration because CS5.5 only has CUDA acceleration support, but from the above Photoshop CS6 review it looks like there are measurable differences with OpenCL acceleration.

**edit: also i use a SSD as my footage and scratch disk. i move my current project onto the SSD and off when im done. definitely is faster than working off the WD Black that i was using before.
 
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From what i've seen, ATI are are the best bang for the buck, commercial-wise.
 
Now that you mention Gaming as being a part of it, don't go lower then the 7770, there is no Nvidia counter part in this area. If you want to get a screaming, cheap and low heat badass get a 7850.
 
Wondering if the NVidia 760 is a decent choice for making HD videos with Adobe CS6 Premiere? Would the 4g help over the 2g or no?
 
JoseJones said:
Wondering if the NVidia 760 is a decent choice for making HD videos with Adobe CS6 Premiere? Would the 4g help over the 2g or no?
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Nvidia's drivers still keep a huge edge in stability & overall compatibility with 3d packages, photoshop, adobe & autodesk programs, etc. The picture hasn't changed much since you originally posted this thread a year ago. :)
 
As adobe uses OpenCL acceleration in their products, it might be worthwhile to note that nvidia seems to have stopped actively supporting OpenCL. They've removed the OpenCL portion from their forums, haven't implemented the new OpenCL 1.2 specs and stopped including OpenCL code examples in their software development packages. I suspect adobe is using the OpenCL 1.1 spec so this probably doesn't make a difference performance or compatability, but I feel it's interesting to note.

After a quick search I found this review: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-161/
It seems the nvidia cards seem to come out ahead, notice the 7750 originally reccommended does a hell of a job keeping up and looks to be a good value.

As far as 2g vs 4g, this shouldn't make a difference unless you are processing images that are incredibly huge. I suspect that adobe just transfers the image to the gpu, runs the filter on it and transfers it back, the determining factors are likely the gpu processing power and the bus transfer speed.
 
Thanks airthimble.

Adobe has a list of video cards that are compatible with Photoshop CS6

"Note: ATI X1000 series and nVidia 7000 series cards are no longer being tested and are not officially supported in Photoshop CS6. However, some basic GL functionality can be available for both these cards."

From your link above:

"... the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 1GB and AMD Radeon HD 7750 are both budget-friendly cards, yet give performance that is very close to the more expensive cards. For the absolute best performance, the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 680 2GB tops our charts with the GTX 580 2GB just slightly behind. The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 670, GTX 660 Ti and GTX 660 are all less than half a second behind the GTX 680, however, so if you are looking for a way to save a decent amount of money with minimal performance loss, using a NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB is definitely worth considering."

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-161/

I am assuming that the 760 will be on par then?
 
I haven't had much time to get familiar with the new 700 lines of cards, but according to the adobe site it seems fine for compatability: "If a video card is not listed here, but was released after May 2012, you can assume that the card will work with Photoshop CS6."

Then according to CLBenchmark it does a great job pulling ahead of the 650 for compute: http://clbenchmark.com/compare.jsp?config_0=16336907&config_1=13371930

I don't see any reason it wouldn't work great, plus as GoldenTiger pointed out Nvidia drivers are generally more stable.
 
I picked up a couple Quadro 2000's for our print people. They use ID6 and PS6 all day, and there haven't been any complaints of slow redraw speeds, even on HUGE catalog pages.
 
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