{"id":12871,"date":"2008-09-11T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/09\/photoshop-gpu-advice.html"},"modified":"2008-09-11T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T18:40:07","slug":"photoshop_gpu_advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/photoshop_gpu_advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop GPU advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">In the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/05\/technology_snea_1.html\">various<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/ps_world_keynot.html\">sneak<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/05\/pixel_bender_no.html\">peeks<\/a>, I&#8217;m seeing a fair number of questions about what kinds of graphics cards (GPUs) will be required or recommended for running Photoshop going forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">We&#8217;ll have more to say once the new version is announced, but very generally I<span class=\"style1\"> can say<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll want at least 128MB RAM on a card that&#8217;s Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 compatible.&#160; Of course, more brawn is always welcome, and if you anticipate working with numerous large documents and\/or 3D, having 512MB RAM on your card is a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;ve been demoing by tossing around an enormous image on a 2-year-old ATI Radeon 1600 card (256MB) in a MacBook Pro, and it does just fine.&#160; If your GPU doesn&#8217;t meet Photoshop&#8217;s requirements, you won&#8217;t lose any features you have today, but certain new things won&#8217;t be enabled.&#160; As I say, we can get into more details <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/09\/cs4_nearing_the.html\">soon<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of various sneak peeks, I&#8217;m seeing a fair number of questions about what kinds of graphics cards (GPUs) will be required or recommended for running Photoshop going forward. &#160; We&#8217;ll have more to say once the new version is announced, but very generally I can say you&#8217;ll want at least 128MB RAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}