*Would this graphics card improve lightroom performance ?

Graphics card is only used in 2D image manipulation. Is any of that running slowly?
 
Well i believe photo display could be quicker, dont want to buy and install this though if it makes zip difference when photo processing....don't game on my pc
 
Very little difference when processing the photo. All the work is done by the CPU - it's only things like zooming done on the gfx card. Display is a combination of loading (i.e. reading from disk) and rendering (the gfx card does this). Initial load performance is normally dominated by disk rather than rendering.
 
So do better graphics card obly help gamers ? ....was hoping some of the lightroom work would go on the GPU..
 
my gfx card is over 6 years old, but then I upgraded my cpu to a quad core and added more memory. now lightroom flies!
 
Im sure photoshoppe uses open gl and some of the cards power?
Also was reading about the tall and thin short and fat too, its all dependent on what work your doin. Setting the amount of ram helps too but i don't get problems. I do have a wobbly old pc mind! Runs cs5 ok, my card won't even support open gl drawing! But i think that's just the 3D side of things.
I look at the adobe help page all the time, its got some handy tips to help you configure your program and machine to get optimum performance
 
arad85 said:
Very little difference when processing the photo. All the work is done by the CPU - it's only things like zooming done on the gfx card. Display is a combination of loading (i.e. reading from disk) and rendering (the gfx card does this). Initial load performance is normally dominated by disk rather than rendering.
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arad85 said:
Yes, and no. CPU performance is king for LR once you have a basic card.

See: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html#main_FAQ

and specifically:
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You've missed out one very important factor: RAM

Making sure that you have a decent amount of onboard memory will hugely improve performance in both LR & PS.
 
DemiLion said:
You've missed out one very important factor: RAM

Making sure that you have a decent amount of onboard memory will hugely improve performance in both LR & PS.
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True, but I've only ever got LR to use 1.8G of memory (and I have 16G). Photoshop on the other hand will use as much as you give it...
 
it hasn't yet been mentioned in this thread...
i've heard it said many times recently by Matt Kloskowski and Adobe people, that the HDD speed has a big impact on LR speed.

I also watched a video recently, i can't recall where right now, i think it was on the B&H YouTube channel, about making numerous collections (the eg given was 2 per year.. ie: 2011/ first half, second half), and working in one collection. It helps the catalog file. Haven't tried it myself, but makes sense.

CPU and disk speed seems to be the way for LR performance.
 
LR3 is heavily CPU and hard drive intensive.

How to optimise lightroom 3

1 - fastest multi-core cpu you can get
2 - fast OS drive (raid 0) where LR3 is installed and photos stored
3 - SSD drive for LR3 cache file approx 100GB
4 - Graphics card unimportant
5 - 16GB ram
6 - Set LR3 cache to 100GB (SSD size) and locate it on the SSD drive
7 - Set LR3 to import with 1:1 previews
8 - When importing photos put them into subfolders in batches of around 200.
(It depends on the megapixels of the camera. Do the calculation yourself. when you open up your image in photoshop CSx, it displays the amount of memory it takes up. Divide the size of the SSD drive by the memory displayed and that gives you the maximum number of files to put in a single folder which will be loaded into the cache created in step 6)
 
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