But, I still doubt you'll see any speed increase over a GTX 660 with it either. IOW, you can use a card that's 10 times as fast and only see a one or two percent increase in speed once you get to a card that fast.įor DxO Optics Pro, the difference using a faster card may be greater. That's because you'll see diminishing returns with anything faster than a GTX 650. But, I can tell you from benchmarks I've seen that you will see *ZERO* benefit for CS6 use with that card compared to a GTX 660. IOW, you may only have a couple of hundred watts available on the rail used for video card connections, as would be typical with a 500 Watt PSU design, splitting available power between more than one rail. Personally, I think you're just asking for trouble trying to use a video card drawing up to 300 Watts by itself with a 500 Watt PSU in an off-the-shelf system like that Acer.Īgain, do you even know if it's a single 12 volt rail design, or if power is being split between multiple 12 volt rails or not" IOW, it's a really good idea to allow at least 50% head room for capacitor degradation, current peaks during system startup, etc. Just because a PSU is rated at 500 Watts doesn't mean that you have that much available on the rail the video card is pulling power from.Įven if it is a single 12 Volt Rail design (unlikely with a consumer PSU in an off the shelf system), you still need to allow some "head room" for the components. But, the problem is that you have not appeared to look at the power supply design to figure out if it's got a single 12 volt rail or multiple 12 volt rails. The system you have is probably going to pull around 100 Watts under load, and the video card you're looking at can pull up to 300 Watts under load. Gold, Bronze, Silver is only an efficiency rating for a PSU, and has nothing to do with how much power you can pull from it.
The manufacturer of the card you're looking at says it will draw up to 300 Watts (and you can't go by reference specs for a card, and need to look at a specific card model because cooling differences, clocking differences, etc. The R 290X gets into higher power supplies. I looked into it and the R9 280X can be slid into a 500-550 watt system. So, lets say you are optioning out a system from HP, just choose the cheapest card and when it comes slide in an AMD R9. Most systems out there are sold with an NVIDIA card. My initial tests of the Nvidia 550m in my laptop and the Nvidia GTX660 demonstrate to me those cards might not make a difference. I have the AMD R9 280x on order with B&H. I found an article which specifically tests out the Photoshop times for the AMD card.
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Just make sure it has Intel's latest drivers for the most recent OpenGL and OpenCL support. In every instance of myself messing around on the inside of a computer it resulted in hours of time along with a lot of time spent searching around on internet message boards for answers.Īs I posted in your other thread, I suspect the integrated graphics processor in the i7-4770 (HD 4600?) will do just fine with image processing, and you will not gain any speed by using a separate graphics card. I want to note that I dont think this operation of removing the video card and putting in the new one will be simple. It would be nice if the AMD card makes a big difference because then that would mean we could just buy the latest AMD card instead of an entire new system. Probably will be a few weeks until I get the card from B&H as it was out of stock and backordered. When I receive the new video card I will post the results here and this time do a more thorough testing with a few more files. What I do for all my machines is go to the Intel and the NVIDIA websites where they have a system scanner to get the latest updates.
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