Photoshop CC - Graphic cards for smooth performance?

I am running PSCC on my main desktop computer. I find that it lags significantly enough to impair my workflow especially when using brushes (default ones).
I have also tested PSCC on a Win 8 gaming laptop and it runs smoothly there.
I am currently using an Nvidia GFX 465. The rest of the system, in brief, is a Win 7 Pro 64 bit system with 12G ram, with 75% dedicated to PS. I have tried setting the memory prefs to 'Tall and Thin' and 'Big and Flat'; the larger cache tile size seems to help a little, although it was working better with 'Tall and Thin' in CS6. Open GL is enabled; Open CL is enabled, draw mode set to Basic (Advanced slows things).
i am interested in hearing what graphic cards folks who claim they have no performance issues in PS CC are using. I am wondering if upgrading my main computer's graphic card will help, and perhaps there is a clue if I knew what cards were working fine with the program.

You may well find that a newer video card will be helpful. However, it may not solve everything for you...
Painting with large brushes also relies heavily on CPU speed, and thus your system's responsiveness will be somewhat dependent on how fast your CPU's individual core speed is.
Does the "gaming laptop" have much newer / faster CPU technology than your desktop system? CPUs have been getting much faster in the past few years, even though clock speeds haven't been changing much (basically new the new CPUs do more per clock cycle).
To run Photoshop best, especially when painting with large brushes (e.g., hundreds to thousands of pixels in size), you really need both modern CPU technology and a good graphics card (as well as very good disk speed).
Personally, for the past few years I've been more fond of ATI cards than nVidia, and I presently have a moderately powerful Visiontek ATI Radeon HD 7850 card, which (with ATI's latest driver release) works very well with Photoshop CC.
-Noel

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Sheltie,
Thank you for the kind words. We all work very hard to help others with video-editing. Some of us also show up on other Adobe forums, depending on the products that we use most often.
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They clearly want you to buy a newer video card.
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First think strange... I used to run my Wacom Cintiq from a second graphic card - NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 - through mini-dispaly port, and this stoped to work... I have to use another port (DVI) from this same card to have a display on my Cintiq.
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