Workstation graphics question

[Ham1234]

My grandpa asked me to help him put together a workstation for his home.  He wants it manly for Photoshop. Now when it came to choosing a graphics card I was stuck on what to get him.

I have a Nvidia Quadro fx 3700 that I could give him or i could spend $200 on a new graphics card.

I don't know what to get him. 

[ShadyHost]

My grandpa asked me to help him put together a workstation for his home.  He wants it manly for Photoshop. Now when it came to choosing a graphics card I was stuck on what to get him.

I have a Nvidia Quadro fx 3700 that I could give him or i could spend $200 on a new graphics card.

I don't know what to get him. 

if it is just photoshop something really low should be ok. 

 

if he is going for a budget machine something like a gtx 650 or gtx 660 (non ti) would be alright. 

 

I am sure the AMD equivalents would be fine as well if photoshop doesn't use CUDA

[Emperor_Piehead]

if it is just photoshop something really low should be ok. 

 

if he is going for a budget machine something like a gtx 650 or gtx 660 (non ti) would be alright. 

 

I am sure the AMD equivalents would be fine as well if photoshop doesn't use CUDA

Isn't adobe going to add a open cl version for amd cards?

[ShadyHost]

Isn't adobe going to add a open cl version for amd cards?

Yes, but I am not sure when that comes fully available or if it is as good or better compared to Cuda. 

[Ham1234]

if it is just photoshop something really low should be ok. 

 

if he is going for a budget machine something like a gtx 650 or gtx 660 (non ti) would be alright. 

 

I am sure the AMD equivalents would be fine as well if photoshop doesn't use CUDA

Im not a Photoshop user myself so what your saying is that a gtx 650 will be fine because i would like to get him a better cpu

[ShadyHost]

Im not a Photoshop user myself so what your saying is that a gtx 650 will be fine because i would like to get him a better cpu

yes, photoshop is very ram intensive and depending on what he is doing it shouldn't be too CPU heavy. I could be wrong but as long as the card can run current games on low settings it should be fine for dragging stuff around in photoshop. 

[Ham1234]

yes, photoshop is very ram intensive and depending on what he is doing it shouldn't be too CPU heavy. I could be wrong but as long as the card can run current games on low settings it should be fine for dragging stuff around in photoshop. 

Im going to be geting 16 gb of ram and i have a 650 ti in my system and i can play games on mid settings easy.

[WoodenMarker]

Isn't adobe going to add a open cl version for amd cards?

Photoshop already uses OpenCL.

 

Get a a 7850: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-1003551gocl

Even a 7770 might be enough: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-ax77701gbd5dh