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Can you please give me some advice about these video integrated graphics cards: Which one is better to use photoshop? Thank you in advance! Edit: |
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If you're looking to use Photoshop CS5, which has the ability to use the graphics card for some of its processing, then the latest drivers for the nVidia GT 320M (for Windows XP and up) enable the support for it in the card. I've had a hard time finding out if that is also true of the Intel HD. So... If I had to pick, with all other things being equal, I'd go with the nVidia one. Now, I'm not sure if the two are otherwise equal (I didn't find English sites with detailed specs), so bear in mind that other factors may also play a role. Available RAM, number of cores, CPU speed, and a host of other factors do play into overall performance though you can ignore this if the two are quite close. Final thought, the two previous postings have valid points. The notebook will give the horsepower you want, but the display will still be less than ideal for actual editing. You'll definitely want a good monitor when editing at home and you'll want to profile both. |
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Far more important is the actual display itself, and how the signal gets there. If you're serious about photographic editing, you should at least be using a colorimeter to get an accurate colour profile for your display; better still, you'd be using a wide-gamut display, something like the NEC MultiSync PA271W which has a good reputation. |
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The graphics card is not that important - but if you want, of course the nVidia will have better support/software then the Intel. (Though I don't know why Intel neglected the field.) I won't check the Laptops, but look for dual core and a digital video out to connect to a proper high res and color stable monitor (LED lighting for semi-stable color, MVA/PVA/IPS-LCD-technology instead of TN) - as Rowland said, the monitor and how the signal gets there is much more important for good photo-work than the hardware in system. I'd guess the laptops have only a TN LCD display - colors will vary a lot with viewing angle, greyscale is not stable. |
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It's so hard to decide which one is better, as they are both so bad... Just as a quick remark, Intel's graphics cards shouldn't be sold. They have 128 MB of RAM (compare, extremely low clock speed, and are just poor excuses for a graphics card. In any case, I would go with NVidia. They are the world leaders in graphics cards. Truthfully, I don't get much of a boost with my Windows 7 desktop running Photoshop CS5 (I have a NVidia GeForce 9800GT, which was pretty top-of-the-line about a year or so ago). I personally use it for GPU computing, as it scales my processing power by a factor of 10. Adobe hasn't really done much in that field... I wouldn't get too frustrated about this matter, as you would need an insane graphics card to really feel the difference with an application that doesn't seem to fully utilize the card itself. Truthfully, I would just build a nice desktop computer for $1,000 with adequate components to last you a decade, as constantly buying laptops is going to waste you tons of money, but that's a different topic ;) As I said before, you shouldn't really care, as those cards aren't going to give you a noticeable performance boost with Photoshop. If you absolutely need GPU acceleration, get a decent card (I'm using a $150 GeForce 9800GT, originally purchased for gaming, but I retired from that). I hope I rambled enough for you to see what I was getting at, as I have no writing skills whatsoever ;) |
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