I've been using an old ATI 4850 graphic card and want to upgrade to something new to match my new Dell U2711. I'm using CS6 and LR4, so what do you guys recommend without breaking the bank. Thanks!
Unless your going to game or render video and need a card for such activities then the card you have now is more than sufficient.
If you want to get the most out of the monitor and your running Windows then you might consider a 10bit capable card, either a Nvidia Quadro or ATI FirePro.
WAYCOOL wrote:
Unless your going to game or render video and need a card for such activities then the card you have now is more than sufficient.
If you want to get the most out of the monitor and your running Windows then you might consider a 10bit capable card, either a Nvidia Quadro or ATI FirePro.
This is pretty much it.
If you game, you need a beefy GPU (ATi or Nvidia).
If you use software that uses Nvidia CUDA programming, a supported Nvidia card can/may speed up the software.
If you use software that uses OpenCL programming, supported ATi and Nvidia cards can/may speed up the software.
Unless you game, my advice would be to buy the less expensive graphics cards that will drive your monitor/monitors at its/their native resolution(s), and will support CUDA and/or OpenCL. While Photoshop CS6 uses GPU compute for a limited number of functions, you don't need a $500 GPU to realize the benefits of this coding. A $50 to $100 should do just fine.
I opted for the GTX 650 2GB (non-ti) card and I think it's a good choice. The 2GB of video RAM may seem like overkill... unless you use Nik's Color Efex Pro 4 or Photohop's Pixel Bender plugin. These plugins will consume nearly all the onboard memory the card has. My old system, with the GT 440 1GB card, would frequently not operate at all in Pixel Bender, and sometimes the GPU accelerated features in Photoshop would just stop working. These annoyances are now a distant memory.
Im using HD 5770, I think HD 7770 should be ok solution. Ofc its far from being most powerful GPU. Next lvl is HD 7850, which is usually 2x price of 7770. Only downside is that these are mainly DX11 GPUs, so older games are bit meh.. (only applied on lower end of HD 7xxx series).
For 2D and PS should be ok.. Mine works fine, when AMD isnt playin with drivers. And I sorta gave up on gaming..
