Nvidia card better for Photoshop?

Which Apple stock card is better for Photoshop? Is there a significant difference? Would Nvidea be better than both? Best all-purpose card for Photoshop, video, 3D modeling?

Your guess is as good anyone else's at this point. Whatever you decide
on, just make sure you can return it.
Bob

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Is iMac graphics card sufficient for Photoshop CS6

I'm considering purchasing a new 21.5-inch iMac that comes equipped with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory. Will this graphics card be sufficient to run Photoshop CS6?

Your query has an answer in more details here: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cs6-gpu-faq.html. If you see this section which says
Tested video cards for Photoshop CS6
nVidia GeForce 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 series .
Hence 650M will fall under this range and is supported to run Photoshop CS6.

Can I use a NVIDIA card only for Boot Camp in MacPro5,1

I bought an ACER HN274H 3D monitor and then found out that 3D (primarily for gaming) won't work with the ATI Radeon HD 5870 card that I have in the PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot. I assume the easiest fix would be to put a NVIDIA card in one of the remaining PCI Express 2.0 x4 slots. A post from 2008 said that 2 cards should work if only one is plugged into the monitor at a time - one for MacOSX and the other for Boot Camp. I wanted to confirm if that still is the case for Boot Camp where I'm running Windows 7. What would be a reasonable NVIDIA card that would not exceed power of 300W combined maximum for all PCI Express slots (no other PCI cards currently); primarily for gaming with 3D option.
This would be for a Mac Pro bought in Nov 2010. Other relevant info:
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          3.2 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          4
BTW, HN274H works ok in 2D for both OS's.
thanks!

ebay or eVGA for used and refurbished GTX 285, though eVGA may be out of those, they were $129 after selling for $449-499, Mac Edition.
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300W is without using two 6-pin aux power video card cables, 75W per slot.
So as long as the 5870 is present you need to look into a 450W PSU to rig together to add 6/8-pin aux power to an additional card.
My understanding though is that a PC card under OS X needs support, the fan can run constantly.... not my forte as to how and what to expect.
OSX and Graphics Cards
GTX 460 and above would fill your needs.

Buying a notebook. Is any one brand better for Photoshop?

I am going on a scuba diving trip and plan to buy a lightweight notebook. I plan to install PS software. Is any particular brand better than the others?

thanks for your help.
i had another idea now: i copied my stuff from my internal pb to my external FW 400 disc. now i have 40GB free space in my internal.
- is this enough for photoshop scratch disc?
- should i also define the other 3 discs (external) as Photoshop scratch disc (possible in the prefercenes of Photoshop, up to 4 discs can be used as scratch discs)
- what about the system scratch disc, do both interfere themselves or bother?
- better also copy the image i work with in Photoshop to the internal powerbook drive which has only 5400 rpm or better leave it where it is now on the external FW400 drive 7200rpm?
thanks

Update Credit Card details for Photoshop Photography Program purchased via Digital River

I need to update my credit card detail for my Photoshop Photography Program subscription. I am not able to update via the website as I get an error. I contacted support but they told me to cancel my subscription and order a new one. I don't accept this as I subscribed to the Photoshop Photography Program which is no longer available. I should be able to continue the subscription by updating my credit card info but support claims that this cannot be done since the subscription is via Digital River. Digital River is no help their site and the staff direct me back to Adobe's site which give the error. I don't accept that I will have to lose my Photoshop Photography Program subscription because of Adobe's choice of a payment processing partner and their inability to update my credit card details - this amounts to a bait-and-switch in my opinion. How can I update the details? I've waited three days for another response from Adobe and the subscription will fail tomorrow...

Make sure that EVERY DETAIL is the same in every place you enter your information
Change/Verify Account https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1465499 may help
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/change-country-associated-with-adobe-id. html
-Credit card https://helpx.adobe.com/utilities/credit-card.html
-email address https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1446019

Nvidia or Radeon for Photoshop CS5/6 for GPU acceleration

Hi there-
Im buying a new videocard for my photoshop PC, and Im trying to figure out if Photoshop supports GPU acceleration on both Nvida and Radeon cards. Ive heard in the past that it only supported CUDA (Nvidia). I currently use CS5, but will update to CS6 at some point.
Thanks,

From a pure quality perspective - and you should know I develop OpenGL graphics software myself - I find ATI/AMD's display drivers to be more consistently of good quality. Both companies flub driver releases occasionally, as they focus primarily on computer game development, but ATI seems to deliver "golden" versions, which just work right with Adobe products, more often. I have had to work around problems in display drivers from nVidia more often.
Also note that Photoshop and company tend to prefer single video cards, rather than dual/multiple GPU arrangements sometimes found inside certain video cards, or creatable by the user by buying multiple cards. Many modern video cards can support multiple monitors on a single GPU.
If you do choose one or the other video card, also keep in mind you'll want to make sure you don't push your computer's power supply past its design limits. I like the ATI x670 line (e.g., the current VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 6670 1GB DDR5) because it balances power consumption against GPU performance, and doesn't emit "on the runway" fan sounds. Don't get me wrong, these cards are plenty fast, but they don't even require a separate power connector.
-Noel

List of supported nVidia cards (Premiere Pro CS6)

Hi all--
I can't seem to locate the latest list of supported nVidia cards. (For Mercury engine)
The only list I could find contains no 6-series nVidia cards! That can't be right!
Can someone point to the latest list?

Good of you to mention that. No, PPBM5 does not have info on driver versions and the like. For the new PPBM6 test I am working on a new way to submit results. It is all explained here: http://ppbm7.com/index.php/instructions?showall=&start=1
If you follow these instructions about Speccy now, you can open the Graphics section to see the driver version in use. So I intend to have those data about driver version, as well as lots of other data that can be relevant, available in the new version.
Thanks for this question. It is very relevant to our script to parse out the Speccy results before submission.

Photoshop CS6 constant 25% CPU Usage with Nvidia card (nvoglv64.dll)

Hi,
i'm using Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Cloud) and have the latest version installed. I experience a high cpu problem when i want to zoom in the picture, then sometimes the cpu load of the CS6 process is constant on 25%. I tried the graphic advanced settings in CS6 from light, normal, extended. With the light setting it happens not so often, but sometimes it is there.
My driver version is 310.90, but this happened also with previous versions or with beta 313.96.
My graphic card is a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 Super Overclock with two different monitors connected.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I want to buy a newer Nvidia card in the near future, but it would be not so good if the problems persists.
Here you can see a screenshot from the Process-Explorer.
I can work more or less with CS6, that is not the problem, but the constant cpu load bothers me.
Maybe someone have some ideas to solve this?
Thanks!
Bye

Photoshop demands a lot of the system, but it doesn't normally run in a loop like that. It sounds like you have a specific nVidia driver problem.
Does everything else work right?
You might see if nVidia offers any advice on their support site for how to clean old driver remnants out of your system that might have accumulated, then install the latest driver again.
Have you tried changing the various settings in Edit - Preferences - Performance, in the [Advanced] section? Your card should be capable of Advanced operation, but maybe as a workaround you could try Basic mode (making sure to close and restart Photoshop before testing). If nothing else it could help isolate the issue further. Since in Normal and Advanced modes the monitor color management is done in the GPU (and in the CPU in Basic mode), it might be interesting to see whether switching to Basic helps. If it does, you should review what color profiles you have set up for your monitors. Profiles are complex beasts and they can be screwed up in a variety of ways and cause pretty weird things to happen.
Good luck.
-Noel

Nvidia Quadro 600, GeForce GTX 560 Ti or cheaper for Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3?

Hello,
I am a professional photographer and I am setting up a new PC (i7, Windows 7 64bit). But I have some troubles to choose the graphic card.
I use Lightroom and Photoshop CS5 3, no video editing.
Between the Open GL, Open CL, CUDA accelerations etc ... professional graphic cards models and consumer ones I am lost!
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti seems more powerful and more versatile but I tell myself that if Nvidia has professional range there must be a reason.
So in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 what would be the best: GeForce GTX 560 Ti or Nvidia Quadro 600?
http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/GPUs/geforce-gtx-560ti/specifications
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-600-us.html
Any reason to get a Quadro 2000?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-quadro-2000-us.html
Or the graphic card doesn’t matter much and I should take an entry-level GeForce to enjoy the HDMI and the silence? Which one then?
Does the Quadro 600 manages 10bits display 10bits? And the Geforce?
Any change announced with Photoshop CS6 and Ligthroom4?
The only 3D application I use is Google Earth in 3D mode, does it make any difference?
Thank you for your help.

You say "no video editing"... If that's going to be the case, and you won't use the Mercury engine in the Adobe Premiere Pro package, which needs the nVidia Cuda subsystem, then I recommend you consider the ATI brand over nVidia.
Why?
Because while neither brand's developers (ATI or nVidia) always release perfect drivers, I find ATI display drivers to be of consistently higher quality than that of nVidia releases. What this means to you is generally fewer crashes or quirks. ATI has also traditionally supported older cards into the future better than nVidia - this might matter to you in a few years.
People ask me what video card I would recommend, and right now that would be a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 6670 1 GB GDDR5 card. I like this particular card because:
I've had 100% success with VisionTek cards in a number of different systems, not only initially but they have all run as long as I have used them, without ever breaking down.
The 6670 model uses very little power (under 70 watts) and as such doesn't stress your computer's power supply, need a separate power connection, nor make a lot of fan noise.
It's not the fastest card made for 3D gaming, but it's inexpensive and excellent for Photoshop. No matter what you choose, you should get a card that scores over 500 on the Passmark GPU benchmark, ideally over 1000: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
The ATI Catalyst display driver implementations for the 4670/5670/6670 line of cards have been good and solid.
1 GB of on-card memory seems to be a good size, even for editing a lot of images, and GDDR5 memory provides faster access than DDR3.
You should know that besides using Photoshop heavily, I also develop OpenGL-based software as well, so I have some additional insight into driver implementations.
-Noel

Laptop for Photoshop - GPU (Nvidia vs AMD) + Display (IPS vs TN) questions - please help

Hi, I am helping someone with getting a new laptop for PhotoShop work, and am very confused about a couple of things.
Hoping that the pros on this forum can help.
1. Dedicated Graphics card - needed or not?
If needed, AMD Radeon/FirePro (difficult to find on laptops) or Nvidia GeForce GTX 6xxM/7xxM or Quadro?
2. Suggestions on laptops with an IPS panel and wide color gamut.
Re. 1 - this is very confusing. From what I researched, the new Photoshop versions (CS6 and above) do use the GPU very effectively, and are using OpenCL rather than CUDA. Yet there are people on some forums that say that a GPU is not needed unless editing video.
My friend is not editing video - he is using Photoshop to create Digital Art. He does use all of the Photoshop features in his work. No 3D work, no video editing. The end result is Printed artwork - sometimes large prints 3 ft x 4 ft printed with geeclee on canvas/high quality paper.
Is a GPU needed, and if so is it better to get the AMD cards (Radeon most likely) that seem to completely outperform the GeForce cards in OpenCL at least?
Most of the laptops available seem to have the GTX 6xxM or 7xxM cards, and I read on one forum that the OpenCL functions are disabled on these cards. Read on another forum that it can be re-enabled with a hack. Thorougly confused. Please help.
Re. 2 - This too is confusing. Seems like an IPS panel has the best color rendition, but then they do not cover the entire color spectrum - or at least not as widely as the TN panels. If this will be the only monitor for work, is an IPS panel the best way to go or is it better to get a TN with wide gamut? Are there laptops with both - an IPS panel and a wide color gamut - without breaking the bank?
Currently the Sager/Clevo machines, and some MSI models, and ASUS models seem to be the best candidates. Had to rule out Dell Precision 6700/4700 and HP Elitebook 8770W/8570W due to price, but considering refurbished ones.
I am working with a $1200 budget with maybe some stretchability. Any advice/suggestions will be much appreciated.

At the potential risk of your pretending to kick me off what you misguidedly perceive as your thread—which by the way you would have no right to do, since you do not own a thread just because you started it—I'll have a couple of comments on your original thoughts.
There's no reason to be "confused" here.
1.— Utilization of the GPU is indeed always beneficial to using recent versions of Photoshop, regardless of whether you work with video or not. Whether you "need it or not" is a different discussion.
2.— Of course it's absolutely necessary to be able to work with a monitor that has a narrower gamut than your working space or even your output target profile. In my case, for example, as I'm 99.9% concerned with high quality prints, I work exclusively in ProPhoto RGB. I'd be in a pickle if I were to restrict my work to just what I can see on any monitor regardless of how wide its gamut were.
One just has to learn how to work in Photoshop. That's what Gamut Warning and Soft Proofing are there, for example. Printers are capable of printing some colors that are not visible on any monitor.
3.— If both the video card and/or its driver fail to support Open GL and Shader Model, no "hack" on Earth can make up for it.
4.— If someone came to me for advice on a laptop on which to run Photoshop well, my main and perhaps only goal would be to dissuade that person from wasting his or her money.
I know there might be flak from some laptop users for that immediately preceding paragraph, but hopefully not as much as you're likely to get—and deservedly so—from Mac Pro users for your astonishingly uninformed comments on those machines.
One thing is having a laptop as a second machine on which to show your Photoshop work to clients and prospective clients when forced to, and another one is trying to use a laptop as one's main, working Photoshop machine.
Going to a laptop publication (which I gather the obscure, niche-market "NBR" you cite is) for information on whether to use one or not is like seeking theological religious advice about world religions from the Pope in the Vatican or the Ayatollah in Tehran.
5.— In the past I had run Photoshop on a variety of different nVidia GeForce cards with up to 512 MB of VRAM, but with Photoshop CS6's more advanced utilization of the GPU I have moved to a mutant, factory-overclocked, flashed ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1 GB of VRAM driving side-by-side dual 22" monitors in my current desktop Mac Pro 2.66 GHz under OS X Lion 10.7.5 and I couldn't possibly be happier.
I do run my second copy of Photoshop on my Mac Book (not "Pro") laptop with its stock Intel GMA 950 video circuitry and its paltry 64 MB of shared system memory, and it works just fine for the aforementioned purposes of showing Photoshop work to others. I wouldn't want to do any editing in Photoshop on that machine other than for minor touch-ups in an emergency, however.
Lastly, I feel compelled to add that, in my opinion, basic human decency would dictate that you offer Trevor some sort of apology for your presumptuousness in asking him to leave this thread. If I hadn't already begun typing this post before you posted your #6, I might have just ignored your thread. Considering the overall anti-laptop tenor of this post, you may well wish I had.

Which is better for gaming intel hd graphics 3000 or nvidia geforce

i want to sue steam and i sonder which is better for gaming :Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB graphics or nvidia geforce . If you know a better graphics card please let me know thanx.

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Graphics card for Photoshop & Premier Elements 9

For the HP HPE580t computer (w/i7-950 quad processor & a 460 watt pwr. supply), which of the following gaphics cards (listed from least to most expensive)would be best to use primarily for video and photo editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 & Adobe Premiere Elements 9?    No need for the card to support gaming.
          1GB Radeon HD 6450
          2GB GeForce GT 420
          2GB Radeon HD 6570
          1.5GB GeForce GT 440
If all are good for video and photo editing, are there any advantages going with the more expensive cards? Also, is heat a concern with the likes of the Radeon 6450 since it does not have a fan?

As neither PSE, nor PrE uses aspects, like CUDA (some nVidia cards), or OpenCL (many ATI cards), there is nothing to be gained there.
In PrE, there are some GPU Effects, where the processing does rely on the GPU, but this is minimal, and I would wager (without the benchmarks to support it), that any good video card will do this, and little notice of an improvement, or slowdown, will be observed.
Now, things CAN change. PS and PrPro CS5 can use GPU aspects, for some activities. Will that trickle down to the Elements versions? Only Adobe knows. At present, CUDA and nVidia, are where Adobe is focusing. OpenCL was not fully developed, or deployed, when they did their development.
If one is contemplating going to PS, or PrPro, then a faster, CUDA enabled GPU would benefit down the road. If one is contemplating going to PS-Extended, with greater 3D capabilities, then either CUDA, or OpenCL should benefit. If one is looking at doing 3D with other programs, then there would be benefits there.
Personally, I think that current cards from nVidia and ATI would work well. The difference in VRAM will likely never be experienced. The biggest draw for me would be the driver support. Both companies are good at this, though a newer card might see more development work, related to drivers.
Given your details, I think that spending the $ now on HDD's would give you more bang for the buck.
Maybe someone, who knows Adobe's plans, will comment, and that could certainly get me to retract the above statement.
Good luck,
Hunt

Photoshop CC sometimes fails to recognize Nvidia card (GT 730M)

I run Photochop CC on my laptop and Photoshop sometimes fails to recognize Nvidia card (GT 730M), and I get an Intel driver crush notification.I set the Nvidia cardas prefered one for Photoshop and it still fails. Drivers are up to date. Any way to fix the issue?

If the Intel is the onboard graphics processor you could try disabling it in Device Manager and BIOS, and let the Nvidia card operate alone..

What´s better for work CS6 video production, Nvidia 680GTX Classified or Nvidia Quadro K5000?

What´s better for work CS6 video production, Nvidia 680GTX Classified $550 or Nvidia Quadro K5000 $1900? both whit 1536Cudacores and 4GBs VRam
I kow the diferences between cooling and power consuming but, there are other diference? What´s better for hardwork renders? with a K5000 i dont worry about cooling, but with that money i can buy 2 680GTX Classified of 4GBs each, and i want to know if Tesla work with the 680GTX.
I have a Windows 8 PC with i73770k,
Asus Z77
16GBs Ram
2T HD
and ´ll buy my SSD SATAIII, update to 32GBs Ram at 2200 and a videocard for work dynamicLink and rendering at the same time that i continue editing.
The software that i use is Cinema4D R13, 3DsMax 2013 Vray iRay and Realflow 5 and Adobe CS6 Video Production, i hope you guys can help me to decide what´s better for my work, i use all of this for Motion Design, video editing, 3D animation and Audio Production. Thank´s for reading...

Nvidia Maximus? its supost to be a Quadro+ Testla cards? or am missing something?
This is what i get in dicember of 2012 but i still need the GPU but now i edit RAW.
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I'm tying to make a payment for photoshop but the fields on the payment form won't allow me to enter the correct card information. Im based in Japan but my card is registered to a UK address. the fields only allow for a Japanese style address and postco

I'm tying to make a payment for photoshop but the fields on the payment form won't allow me to enter the correct card information. Im based in Japan but my card is registered to a UK address. the fields only allow for a Japanese style address and postcode. What can i do to complete the payment and get photoshop!

As far as I know, your registered location and your credit card information must match... but,
This is an open forum, not Adobe support... you need Adobe staff to help
Adobe contact information - http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html
-Select your product and what you need help with
-Click on the blue box "Still need help? Contact us"
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