Macpro 3,1 GPU requirements for Photoshop CC, Video Editing 4K

Hi -
I'm looking to upgrade my paltry 512MB graphics card in my MacPro 3,1 2008 2.8 8-core to handle Photoshop CS5, CS6, CC, as well as Final Cut/Premiere 4K editing. Most if not all GPU reviews are focused on gaming performance but I'm just interested in getting enough GPU performance for the above applications. I'm hoping to spend at most $250 for a graphics card but I'd obviously be happier to spend half as much if it's all I need. I've been focusing my attention on the GTX 650 up to the GTX 770 cards. Anyone have any helpful guidance on the matter?
Thank you in advance!
PS I'm currently running 10.6.8, but also have a Mavericks partition, all on an SSD drive, 14GB RAM.

You are in serious need of RAM as well.
PCIe SSDs can help as well with CS6 for your scratch volume or for Lightroom and Aperture.
10.8.5 did have support for PC cards - have you talked to folks at Netkas.org and MacRumors forum for Mac Pro as well as looked at test results Barefeats.com did on GTX 7xx ? back couple years they did a lot of tests of GPUs when the EVGA GTX 680, still popular, and AMD 7950 - both are Mac Edition cards and still being sold.

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