Radeon 7790 and Photoshop CS5

My graphics card is dying. To be exact, the fan on my old Radeon 4650 card is making strange noises from time to time and when it does, the temperature on the card goes up. It is time for a replacement.
After looking at the various cards, I settled on the Sapphire 100356OCL Radeon HD 7790 OC 1GB DDR5 PCI-Express Video Card seen here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202029
Beside normal display tasks, I have two programs that use Open CL on the graphics card - Photoshop CS5 and WinZip.
Is anyone using any Radeon 7790 based card with Photoshop CS5? If so, have you encountered any difficulties with Open CL activated in CS5?

I'm most impressed with the VisionTek brand of ATI cards myself.
I have a VisionTek ATI Radeon 7850 card, myself, and it works flawlessly (now that ATI has released a good driver, Catalyst 13.4) with Photoshop. I don't use Photoshop CS5 much any more, as I'm on CC, but I have fired it up and it does everything it's supposed to in Advanced mode with this card.
I can't say whether the experience with one card can apply to a different model... Probably not, at least not completely. But since you're looking to buy a new card, maybe you might want to consider a 7850. It's a little more future-proof as well, as it has 2GB of DDR5. I wouldn't recommend it if I weren't having most excellent results with it myself.
This is a good site from which to compare GPU power... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Personally I'd stay away from "OC" kinds of things... A few frames per second more in gameplay doesn't translate to anything useful when running Photoshop. What you want is solid and reliable performance.
-Noel

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