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Graphics Card Replacement For GT620


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TonyCooper

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My desktop has a NVidia GeForce GT 620 that is now out of date. Websearching finds many recommendations for replacements, but most are older posts. Most of the sites on graphic cards are about gaming or video processing, and I don't do any type of gaming or video processing.

I use Photoshop and Lightroom, but mostly basic editing. The system (16 Gb ram) works fine for my purposes.

I'm about to go with a GTX 1650, but interested in any suggestions or comments.
 
TonyCooper said:
My desktop has a NVidia GeForce GT 620 that is now out of date. Websearching finds many recommendations for replacements, but most are older posts. Most of the sites on graphic cards are about gaming or video processing, and I don't do any type of gaming or video processing.

I use Photoshop and Lightroom, but mostly basic editing. The system (16 Gb ram) works fine for my purposes.

I'm about to go with a GTX 1650, but interested in any suggestions or comments.
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I'm running the GTX 1650 on Windows 10 and it handles Photoshop with no problems. Occasional hiccup but I don't know if I can blame it on the card....
 
The "ugly truth" is that Photoshop don't give that much damn about your graphics card.
Well, it does - for things like Open GL and such, but which card of somewhat modern make does not have a decent Open GL ?
One you find really dirt cheap on Ali Express, perhaps ... :)

What Photoshop - and all image editors - benefit from is RAM and CPU.
A large GPU (many cuda cores) only makes a difference if you're doing 3D, gaming with all ray trace enabled (FPS count), editing video or (horrors !!) utilise a lot of AI.
So - since you're basically doing image editing, I would say you're just fine with the GTX 1650.
What I would do if I where you and wanted to ugrade further is focus on RAM and CPU.

As a comparison - I'm running Photoshop CS6 on an Intel Xeon E3-1275 v5 (3.6 GHz) with 32 GB DDR4 RAM and an RTX 2070 (it was already in the box when I bought it - second hand).
OP is Win 10 Pro.
In 95% of all cases, I do my image editing in Photoshop in 16-bit.

The last image edit I did ended up in an image filezise of 775 MB.
This with 32 GB of RAM - and PhS just kept on going...
I could probably have pushed the filesize up to around 1 GB before PhS even began to stutter.

Now - there is a somewhat crude but pretty handy rule-of-thumb:
16 GB RAM - can handle 500-600 MB filesize.
32 GB RAM - up to 900 MB-1GB.
64 GB RAM - up to 2 GB.
And so on ...

So, you'll be just fine with an RTX 1650 and if you're CPU plays well with your system - fine.
To further upgrade, I would have a look at more RAM and/or a CPU with larger cach.

Just my $ 0.02 ...
 
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