Which card is better for Adobe Photoshop?

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Between AMD 7970 or GTX 680. I know they are both overkill but still humour me.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

7970 might be faster, but the 680 has more support when it comes to addons.

 

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Found this article which suggests GTX 680 to be better
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Adobe-Photoshop-CS6-GPU-Acceleration-161/

This is going to be my wife's system. i7 920, 6GB ram, Asus X58 board.

 

[exar333]

7970 might be faster, but the 680 has more support when it comes to addons.

This.

 

[3DVagabond]

Sorry, but what version of PS are you running?

 

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Going to be downloading the whole cloud initiative. If not then it would be Cs6

 

[3DVagabond]

Going to be downloading the whole cloud initiative. If not then it would be Cs6

Sorry for the dlay in answering. Time zones suck.

According to AMD, Adobe CC is supposed to have a lot of OpenCL GPU accelerated features that are compatible with AMD APU's and GPU's. Adobe appears to really be going all in on OpenCL.

 

[Sohaltang]

Does photoshop support crossfire?

 

[BrightSideSC]

7970 might be faster, but the 680 has more support when it comes to addons.

good to know off the bat. OP, will you post when you've chosen and used one for a while?

 

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Chose the Gtx 680. Had a chance to trade it with a forum member.

If it doesn't work out I am sure I will be able to find someone to trade back

 

[Kippa]

Depends on the version of Photoshop. Mine in Photoshop CS5.5 which can use advanced gpu processing power with regards to OpenGl inside photoshop. At a guess with the 680 using only 2gb of vram comparted to 7970 using 3gb of ram, you are probably better of with using a 7970 if it is explicitly for Photoshop.

 

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Depends on the version of Photoshop. Mine in Photoshop CS5.5 which can use advanced gpu processing power with regards to OpenGl inside photoshop. At a guess with the 680 using only 2gb of vram comparted to 7970 using 3gb of ram, you are probably better of with using a 7970 if it is explicitly for Photoshop.

Yea let me give the the GTX 680 a shot. This for someone who is just starting out in Photoshop so GTX 680 should work.

Additionally this machine will be 100% watercooled and the 7970 that I had wasn't so had to get a reference card.

Thanks for all the input guys/gals!