marknagel Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 <p>I'm looking for a good graphics card to put in my computer mainly to improve the CS4 preformance and take advantage of the video GPU in CS4. Its going in a AMD 9500 Quad core w/ 8GB RAM. I'd like to keep it under $200. Any suggestions?</p> <p>mark</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edelson1 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 <p>Look at the Nvidia 8800 Gt 512 Mb (same as 9800 GT) or ATI Radeon 4850 512 Mb. Both can be found <$200 and both support CS4 GPU acceleration features.</p> <p>henry</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonnalos Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 <p>I'll second the recommendation for the ATI Radeon 4850. I have a Sapphire ATI Radeo 4850 HD card w/ 512MB of RAM and it works great. It's only $145 after rebate at www.newegg.com.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 <p>I'll second the Radeon 4850 and mention that a 4830, 4670, or 4650 will all offer a LOT of performance at their price points.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknagel Posted December 9, 2008 Author Share Posted December 9, 2008 <p>How does the ATI Radeon 4850 compare to the Nvidia 8800 GT or BFG-Nvidia 8800 GTS OC? Also, Newegg has many manufactures, is one recommened over another?</p> <p>m</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknagel Posted December 10, 2008 Author Share Posted December 10, 2008 <p>Thanks, I just ordered the Nvidia 8800 GT. The others wouldn't fit in my case (only one slot and the TV card has to go in the one next to the PCI express slot.</p> <p>m</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricklavoie Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 <p>I personnaly didtn see much improvement with a bigger video card with CS4; other than the fancy slide image, live rotate tool, or quick zoom that look good at any zoom ratio...if you turn those feature OFF (i have) i dont think CS4 use the video card.</p> <p>i migth be wrong, but i didtn see any major improvement before and after.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 <p>In many way it sounded to me by the descriptions of the types of "acceleration" Adobe talks about like CS4 uses the texture mapping and other basic features of the card to speed up display rather than using the insane quantities of floating-point processing power in the shaders to actually do the gruntwork. This would be sorta a shame given Apple already managed it with Aperture, but understandable given the way CUDA and OpenCL seem to just now be falling into place. There probably hasn't been time to for a program to run the development pipeline with a working vendor-neutral GPU compute library.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_dunn2 Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 <p>CS4 only uses the GPU on a few cards, and only uses it for a few things. But keep in mind: that's right now. I won't be at all surprised to see the list of supported cards, and the list of operations which use them, grow substantially as this feature matures ...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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