Major differences between 1299 and 1499 iMacs?

I see that the video cards are different and .2 ghz on the processor. Can anyone tell me if that extra 200 bucks is worth the upgrade? Is the difference in video cards THAT different? How much difference would I notice if they were side by side? I guess I'm just trying to talk myself not spending that extra 200 bucks but dont want to unless it is a MAJOR difference in graphics. Any thoughts?

FWIW, Photoshop and Lightroom performance will be somewhat
better on the iMac with the discrete GPU since they leverage
the GPU for image processing.
If you use a lot of layers and complex filtering, masking, etc.
with Photoshop, the discrete GPU will perform better.

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