Macbook pro retina for web and UI Design

HI, I am planing to buy a Macbook pro retina 15 inch late 2013 model. I am a UI Designer and mostly I am gonna use Photoshop CC or CS. So I am planing to get either rMBP 15' $1999 model which has i7 2.0 RAM 8GB and intel iris graphic card or rMBP 15' $2599 model which has i7 2.3 RAM 16GB and has dedicated graphic card NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. I dont know which one will work for me as a Photoshop user, I am working on a big files over 15MB with lots of layers in it. I dont want to spend extra $600 and get the same result as $1999 will give me so if you have any experience with macbook and photoshop please help. Thanks in advance

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