please suggest me graphic card

[369]

hi friends,
i have asus m5a 78l-mlx mother board,
amd 6100 cpu,
2tb hdd,
8 gb ram
i am using adobe photoshop cs6 for image editing and some 3d work with windows 8 os.
please suggest me witch graphic card should i buy.

 

[369]

...............................no one's there for suggestion.............................

 

[Jaydip]

Your budget?

 

[369]

15000rs

 

[369]

I am confused by
"Mercury Graphics Engine" (MGE)
NVIDIA (CUDA) and AMD (OpenCL)

 

[lehtv]

Are you buying online and if so, can you link the URL?

"Mercury Graphics Engine" (MGE)

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/mercury-graphics-engine.html

NVIDIA (CUDA) and AMD (OpenCL)

MGE doesn't use CUDA, it uses OpenGL and OpenCL (see here). This means NVIDIA and AMD are equally compatible. According to benchmarks made by pugetsystems, you don't have to pay a lot to get full benefit of the GPU acceleration in MGE. The HD 7750 seems like a pretty good performance for the price.

NVIDIA 600 series is still not officially approved by Adobe, as far as I know, but seems to work fine regardless.

As for "3D work", you need to be a bit more specific. What sort of projects, what application(s) do you use? Is this something that would benefit from NVIDIA-specific CUDA?

 

[369]

80 percent in worked in adobe photoshop cs6
rest 20 percent in adobe lightroom, adobe after effect, acd see, camera raw software and cinema 4d etc.

 

[369]

is Mercury Graphics Engine option in amd 7850????????

 

[Selenium_Glow]

80 percent in worked in adobe photoshop cs6
rest 20 percent in adobe lightroom, adobe after effect, acd see, camera raw software and cinema 4d etc.

The way I see it:

1) Adobe Photoshop CS6: Any Graphics card with OpenCL support.
2) Adobe Lightroom: Recommended; midrange graphics card for acceleration
3) Adobe After Effect: Needs OpenGL/CUDA. Only Nvidia cards support CUDA
4) ACDSee and Camera Raw software: They don't need graphics cards... they need a good processor and secondary memory...
5) Cinema 4D : Needs a strong processor for rendering. GPU only used by external rendering engines like Octane/Mental-Ray. You have an average/below average processor, and for the budget of 15,000 INR, you can only get an average/below average graphics card for the external rendering engines.

Advice:
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No offense to you, but it seems that you are a newbie, and don't yet know what and where to apply your graphics creativity. If this is the case, then read on. otherwise skip to last section.

If you are a newbie, spend your 15,000 bucks on the "best" graphics card this money can buy. On Flipkart.com and theitdepot.com, I see Nvidia 560, AMD 7850 1 GB for this cost. See some offline shops too. these are good purchase. Stretch your budget by another 5,000 INR and you should buy either the NVIDIA 660Ti or AMD 7850 2 GB (or 7950 if you can find the deal).

Last Section:
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I recommend you spend whatever money on a CUDA capable NVIDIA card. That is what'll get you through all the rendering, should you use GPU acceleration. Here I recommend you make investments on NVIDIA 560 atleast. Even better if you can get a 570, 580 or a Quadro. The newest 6xx series from Nvidia is weaker with CUDA and AMD does not support CUDA anyways.

 

[369]

thax for you kind help
just one more help NVIDIA 560ti or AMD 7850 2 GB good for adobe photoshop cs6?

 

[Jaydip]

Have you thought about Quadro?

 

[Selenium_Glow]

thax for you kind help
just one more help NVIDIA 560ti or AMD 7850 2 GB good for adobe photoshop cs6?

If it is just Photoshop CS6, both are overkill
I'm running Photoshop CS6 over a Nvidia 7060 southbridge graphics card, and my laptop uses Intel HD3000, and without drivers to boot. Both run Photoshop fine.

Well, but as you said, you have some Adobe After Effects work too, it would benefit you more to have NVIDIA 560ti.

Also, I know Quadro/Firepro is not cheap, but some entry level quadro/Firepro cards can be had for that money. Consider what Jaydip says in the post above me.

 

[lehtv]

Since only After Effects involves CUDA, and the rest are either CPU or OpenCL dependent; and since Photoshop's GPU acceleration seems to be pretty much maxed out with just a 7750/GTX650... go with one of those. 7750 lacks CUDA but is cheaper, otherwise they perform the same. I probably wouldn't bother paying extra just to have improved CUDA for the 5% of work that takes place in AE, but if you think AE could become more important in the future then investing in a last-gen NVIDIA card like GTX560 or 560 Ti is a good idea (600 series is a bit crippled in terms of compute performance)