Which more important cpu or gpu for photo editing

[rocker0]

Hi

My sister is going to uni for a journalism course, and will need a laptop capable of photo editing.

for our budget i can get a laptop with a good core count 4 (with hyper) with integrated graphics or a dual core (and hyper threading) and a gpu. Which is more important for photo editing cpu or gpu?

[Br3tt96]

Photo editing requires more cpu.

[homeap5]

1 hour ago, rocker0 said:

Hi

My sister is going to uni for a journalism course, and will need a laptop capable of photo editing.

for our budget i can get a laptop with a good core count 4 (with hyper) with integrated graphics or a dual core (and hyper threading) and a gpu. Which is more important for photo editing cpu or gpu?

From my experience - CPU. Even if graphics software like Photoshop can use GPU, still CPU is most important (and I didn't notice any difference between Photoshop speed when using integrated card only and good NVidia).

Also - in most cases, even 2 cores Pentium will be good enough for photo editing (it's not movie editor, it's editing static images). So Pentium + lot of ram will be probably better than i5 + not enough ram. But since we talking about laptop - i5 and SSD is minimum for work.

[Metallus97]

8 minutes ago, rocker0 said:

Hi

My sister is going to uni for a journalism course, and will need a laptop capable of photo editing.

for our budget i can get a laptop with a good core count 4 (with hyper) with integrated graphics or a dual core (and hyper threading) and a gpu. Which is more important for photo editing cpu or gpu?

4 Core!!

 

most filters and effects in PS and stuf are based on CPU. Only some use the GPU. For this the iGPU shuld allso be enugh.

Plus (in most cases) no GPU will give you better batery life

[YedZed]

Linus said at some point that photo editing benefits from the presence of a dGPU, but it can basically be any dGPU with CUDA acceleration, whereas the CPU will be absolutely necessary.