Photo editing PC optimisation - help!!

[nickmnickm]

Hello,

I'm new to building, but have given it my best shot up to now! I built a PC for using Lightroom / photoshop RAW image editing mainly, but will eventually dip into the video editing (small scale but 4k) all within the Adobe suites. I'm looking for two pieces of advice really, the first being more flakey:
 

1) How can I best optimise my PC to run LR / PS as they slow up loads when it comes to applying features such as graduated filters?
2) Do I need a GPU for photo editing, would this solve my slowdown problems, if so what GPU? Quadro or GTX? Budget sitting around the £400 mark

PC config: 
i7 8700k (liquid cooler)

32gb DDR4 RAM
M.2 SSD 500gb
Z370 MOBO
GPU- None
Monitor: LG 27"UD58 4K 8bit (+2)

Help / tips would be appreciated. I made it this far! 

Nick
 

[Shimejii]

Gpu's always help, id get a 1070 or 1070ti if you can around that mark. Used market would help maybe even get  a 1080 for a decent price

 

When adding filters it alwways may slow it down as more effects = more things to load in.

[FStopDesigns]

1) I don't think there is much you can do to optimize your pc for that I'm afraid. It is already quite powerful and uses fast storage. Unless you have those images on an external harddrive that is connected through a slow connection.

2) Don't get a GPU for image editing. Lightroom does have an option to accelarte some processes but most of the time I have been stuck using the CPU since i get the bluescreen bug when using a GPU in LR. I don't think PS can make that much use a GPU either as far as i know.

 

For Video editing it's a different matter altogether. Premiere can use the GPU for some things especially rendering if you use one of the supported codecs. And if you're going to get into color grading in remiere then you'll almost certainly need a good gpu.

 

TLDR: Don't get a GPU for Photo editing, only if you plan to do some editing, rendering and color grading.

[nickmnickm]

Thank you both for the replies. I originally didn't go for the GPU as it seemed like it wouldn't be worth it for photo editing but when it comes to using functions like the enhancement brush in LR or stamp tool in PS my PC slows to a speed which is about as bad as my 2010 MBP....this makes me sad. 

I read that quaddro GPU's were more for workloads like editing etc but I don't have the foggiest. 

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll give a GTX a go if I can no longer bare the drastic drops in performance!

Nick

[ImpulseRez]

15 minutes ago, nickmnickm said:

Thank you both for the replies. I originally didn't go for the GPU as it seemed like it wouldn't be worth it for photo editing but when it comes to using functions like the enhancement brush in LR or stamp tool in PS my PC slows to a speed which is about as bad as my 2010 MBP....this makes me sad. 

I read that quaddro GPU's were more for workloads like editing etc but I don't have the foggiest. 

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll give a GTX a go if I can no longer bare the drastic drops in performance!

Nick

GPU acceleration does help in Lightoom and PS, but only on certain brushes etc. I think there are some benchmarks out there, but you wouldn't benefit from having a Quadro, or even a very expensive new GPU (something like a 1060 would be enough I think).

 

Unfortunately Lightroom especially can just be a bit unpleasant to use from a performance perspective I have found... Never worked out a solution myself (throwing more hardware at it hasn't helped me!)

[LaFemmeEnVert]

6 hours ago, nickmnickm said:

I read that quaddro GPU's were more for workloads like editing etc but I don't have the foggiest. 

use quadro card for lightroom and photoshop only if you have wide gamut monitor with true 10-bit capable. if you dont have monitor like that any graphic card is ok to use. but photoshop lightroom do not rely on gpu intensively tho having decent gpu is useful

[nickmnickm]

On 02/08/2018 at 5:18 PM, ImpulseRez said:

GPU acceleration does help in Lightoom and PS, but only on certain brushes etc. I think there are some benchmarks out there, but you wouldn't benefit from having a Quadro, or even a very expensive new GPU (something like a 1060 would be enough I think).

 

Unfortunately Lightroom especially can just be a bit unpleasant to use from a performance perspective I have found... Never worked out a solution myself (throwing more hardware at it hasn't helped me!)

 

 

17 hours ago, LaFemmeEnVert said:

use quadro card for lightroom and photoshop only if you have wide gamut monitor with true 10-bit capable. if you dont have monitor like that any graphic card is ok to use. but photoshop lightroom do not rely on gpu intensively tho having decent gpu is useful

Thanks for the reply, I'll look at a 1060 or 1070 for some benchmarks then. Glad I know about the Quadro now. I think a GPU seems the logical next step to get some performance improvements so I really appreciate the feedback.