Does Radeon play nice with Adobe (Photoshop) and Autodesk (3DS Max) now?

[MrDark]

Before anyone says it: I'm not interested in professional cards because I'd like to game as well. That and they're as expensive as balls.

Anyway, I've used ATI/AMD cards for ... at least a decade I suppose. I've recently gotten into 3D development which uses a lot of Adobe/Autodesk products. (Photoshop/3DS Max are the ones I use most). The products have always been a bit wonky for me with Radeon cards. It's manageable, but usually requires some sort of sacrifice.

Does anyone know the better card to use for this now? I haven't purchased a new card in 2-3 years and the 6850s I have now are getting a bit stale for games. I thought I'd just ask here in case anyone has any experience that can provide input off the top of their head.

Right now I'm looking at the R9 290 or GeForce 780 series of cards. If the Radeon cards play nice with the software I use then I'd probably lean their way, although I may have to wait because AMD is letting resellers go insane with price gouging their stock.

 

[Bateluer]

I've never heard of Radeons having issues with Adobe or Autodesk products. But, the *coin mining craze has seriously jacked up the pricing on cards right now. Might be better to wait a few weeks.

 

[MrDark]

I've never heard of Radeons having issues with Adobe or Autodesk products. But, the *coin mining craze has seriously jacked up the pricing on cards right now. Might be better to wait a few weeks.

I haven't used anything newer than a 6850 with the software, but as an example: If I have hardware acceleration enabled the background flickers, there are weird artifacts. I thought it may have been me at first, but apparently it happens to others.

It's not my intention to bash either card, by the way, I just want a good solution.

 

[KompuKare]

I haven't used anything newer than a 6850 with the software, but as an example: If I have hardware acceleration enabled the background flickers, there are weird artifacts. I thought it may have been me at first, but apparently it happens to others.

It could be the clocks: maybe for some reason the card is staying at 2D settings even with hardware acceleration on. Looking at old 6850 reviews the 2D clock is 100/150 (core/memory). So if you fire up those programs and have a hardware monitor program in the background you can see if the clocks ever go up to 3D mode. If they don't, you can use something like the Asus GPU Tweak (should work with non-Asus cards) and for 2D mode to somthing like 700/100 or so. (Fairly sure it was the Asus GPU Tweak which allows you specify a 2D but if not, one of the other vendor's tool does.)

If that works you can either get GPU Tweak to autorun or use something like RBE (Radeon BIOS Editor) to permanently flash the clocks (flashing is of course riskier).