Adobe creative suite GPU question

zink1701

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Hi, I have not had any experiance with the Adobe suite and I have been asked if the Nvidia GT 720 is any good with this software. The budjet for harware upgrades is tight so we need the cheapest GPU that will work. We are also upgrading the System to 8GB RAM (maybe overkill) as in requirements some applications recommend 8GB with a 64bit OS (64 bit OS is currently being used)

Thank you for any help :)
 
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with Adobe software, 8GB's of RAM may as well be a requirement in my experience. for the GPU, the GT 720 is not officially supported, however you can add it to the supported cards list for some of the software. there's no grantee it wont be bug free, but in my experience, i have yet to have an "unsupported" card give me problems. (i have done this with a GT 105m, GT630, and a GTX 860m) another thing to consider is, depending on which CS version your using, most of the Adobe CS will be OpenGL accelerated and will support most GPU's off the bat that support the minimum OGL version or greater.

this thread outlines how to add a new card to the Premier Pro lists.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/629557
thread about what features in Photoshop...

pasow

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with Adobe software, 8GB's of RAM may as well be a requirement in my experience. for the GPU, the GT 720 is not officially supported, however you can add it to the supported cards list for some of the software. there's no grantee it wont be bug free, but in my experience, i have yet to have an "unsupported" card give me problems. (i have done this with a GT 105m, GT630, and a GTX 860m) another thing to consider is, depending on which CS version your using, most of the Adobe CS will be OpenGL accelerated and will support most GPU's off the bat that support the minimum OGL version or greater.

this thread outlines how to add a new card to the Premier Pro lists.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/629557
thread about what features in Photoshop use the GPU
https://forums.adobe.com/message/4289204

my last note, you want at least 512MB's of vRAM on the GPU, its recommended to have 1GB or more. if you can help it, get the GDDR5 version of the GT 720. now weather or not that's an upgrade is dependent on your current Graphics hardware.
 
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Deeds4life

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Depends on what you are doing and what version of adobe suite you are using. If your only using photoshop, you can get away (not optimal but will work) with the integrated intel/amd graphics card. If you are doing video editing, the better the card the better performance you get. I wouldn't waste time on that 720. Minimally you would want a GTX 750. They are ~$100 and have 1gb of memory on them. I know budget is tight but video editing is taxing on the computer. What CPU is currently installed? Believe it or not CPU is just as important as GPU with the adobe suite.