Will upgrading GPU on Mac affect LR performance?

I've searched around in vain for an answer to this question. I'm wondering if anyone knows if upgrading from the horrible 6600LE graphics card that came with my G5 Mac to the x1900 G5 Edition will improve LR performance? I know Aperture is heavily dependent upon the GPU, but as I recall LR is more processor-intensive. Does anyone know?

Probably very little. LR does not use the GPU in the same way as Aperture does. All operations AFAIK are done on the CPUs. This causes LR to be much faster on older macs where Aperture is either glacial or doesn't even run.

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