Planing to upgrade to Photoshop CS6 what graphics card do I need?

Question

I have 2 gb on my current card from HP, will I need to up the quality of my current card to run CS6?

Answer 1

Saw some recommendation on an Adobe BLOG and wanted to see how my system stacked up so I added My Syatem  in to where it fit.  Cost me $2,500 from Dell Outlet but I had my Display, Printer, Wacom Tablet and camera gear from before.
My Nvidia Quadro 4000 display adapter is intended more for Video for applications like Adobe Premier Pro then Games. So I downloaded Cinebench to see how well it stacked up the their sample systems.
I also played with the Heaven GPU Benchmark from using low quality 1920x1080 to insane quality all bell. Then lower  16:9 resolution and 4:3  setting all displayed full screen 1920x1080. Here are the scores and frame rates produced: For settings used low score 191 high 1103
FPS:
43.8
Score:
1103
Min FPS:
9.6
Max FPS:
71.4
System
Platform:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz (1995MHz) x12
GPU model:
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 9.18.13.2049 (2048MB) x1
Settings
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Low
Tessellation:
Disabled
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FPS:
8.6
Score:
216
Min FPS:
5.6
Max FPS:
17.4
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
13.9
Score:
350
Min FPS:
7.5
Max FPS:
32.7
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1366x768 8xAA windowed
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
7.6
Score:
191
Min FPS:
4.0
Max FPS:
14.5
Render:
OpenGL
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
11.3
Score:
284
Min FPS:
6.7
Max FPS:
24.6
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1600x900 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
13.8
Score:
349
Min FPS:
7.0
Max FPS:
32.0
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1366x768 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
15.0
Score:
379
Min FPS:
8.4
Max FPS:
36.4
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1280x720 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
16.6
Score:
418
Min FPS:
9.2
Max FPS:
41.0
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1024x768 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
21.1
Score:
531
Min FPS:
10.5
Max FPS:
59.1
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
800x600 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
25.1
Score:
632
Min FPS:
11.3
Max FPS:
78.4
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
640x480 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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FPS:
26.1
Score:
658
Min FPS:
9.8
Max FPS:
81.0
Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
640x360 8xAA windowed
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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