Which Dual AMD FirePro option for Photoshop CC?

I was wondering which of the Dual AMD FirePro option for the new Mac Pro is best for Photoshop CC. I mainly do retouching (so no video editing nor 3D rendering in Photoshop). Basically Adobe is adding GPU-accelerated features with every release. The most important ones are the following: Liquify, Warp and Puppet Warp, Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift and Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
Regarding the Dual AMD FirePro options for the new Mac Pro does it make sense to upgrade the standard D300 to the D500 (or even the D700)? I guess for 3D animations, Premiere Pro or Mari (3D paint tool) it would definitely make sense but for PS CC I can't imagine a real performance gain as the D300 is already very powerful with a dual GPU and 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM each.
Any thoughts on to what extent Photoshop would benefit from upgrading the D300 to the D500?

Check out MacRumors where they are speculating madly :-)
Already been seen that more than 2GB helps and why folks are using 2.5 to 4GB cards already.
All depends on getting good compiles generating OpenCL and learning to leverage it.
I think MPG site would be perfect from both computer insight and from a heavy CS/CC user like Lloyd.
The 6-core gives the best in MHz and turbo boost for you.
I thought macperformanceguide said it all. You read it??
GPUs:
Based on past testing, I felt there was no value in paying for the D700 GPUs with 6GB memory each. If the dual D500 GPUs don’t provide a massive speedup over the prior Mac Pro 5870 video card, then something is seriously wrong. Or they are just not used, which is usually the case. And they are OpenCL, which is not necessarily supported by much software.
But the 6-core includes the D500 GPUs as standard (over the 4 core), and so there they are. One way to save money is to start with the 4-core CPU, upgrade it to the 6-core, and this then saves about $400 on the GPUs by sticking to the D300 models.
But at 4:00 AM I forgot about this, and besides, the fractional cost when all other costs are considered drops well below 10% of the system price. And there is no way to know for sure if the GPUs have any benefit short of testing identical configs on specific tasks. None of the GPU options are slow.

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