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Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:07 pm

Photoshop CC I am using recently becomes very slow to launch. The vendor's customer support told me that the benchmark speed of the graphic adapter must be above 2000 as shown in the following:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
I wonder which is the fastest one and still the CPU being AMD FX-6300 will not be the bottleneck.
Help is appreciated.
 
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:35 pm

Your GPU has nothing to do with how long it takes for Photoshop to launch.
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:24 pm

Waco wrote:
Your GPU has nothing to do with how long it takes for Photoshop to launch.

Thanks for your reply.
Is there anything else I should watch when selecting a new graphic adapter? CPU compatibility, PSU capacity, dimensions, etc.
 
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:07 pm

Even if the graphics card were what was holding you back instead of you old CPU... There has never been a worse time to try to buy a new graphics card. Between the pandemic, the ransomware coin miners and the scalpers, you cannot find a graphics card in stock for less than double its full retail price.
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:03 pm

Waco wrote:
Your GPU has nothing to do with how long it takes for Photoshop to launch.

What has to do with how long it takes for Photoshop to launch? CPU instead?
 
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:28 am

CPU could certainly be part of it, but for initial launch the most likely culprit would be storage speed (SSD or HDD depending on which you are using).

If you are working with larger images than you used to, another contributor could be the amount of RAM you have -- for example, if you used to edit small images but now are editing larger ones, you may have exceeded the size that fits in RAM so it has to page off to virtual memory. That will make Photoshop slow down quite a bit.

Finally, if it's a very recent speed drop that you can't explain through file size, it could be a software update has changed how it works with your hardware.
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Re: Recommendation for upgrading R7 360

Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:47 pm

K-L-Waster wrote:
CPU could certainly be part of it, but for initial launch the most likely culprit would be storage speed (SSD or HDD depending on which you are using).

If you are working with larger images than you used to, another contributor could be the amount of RAM you have -- for example, if you used to edit small images but now are editing larger ones, you may have exceeded the size that fits in RAM so it has to page off to virtual memory. That will make Photoshop slow down quite a bit.

Finally, if it's a very recent speed drop that you can't explain through file size, it could be a software update has changed how it works with your hardware.

Yes, the speed drop began recently. I reverted back the installed version to an older version and it has no such issue. Adobe support said a software update caused the slowdown and asked me to wait for the coming update.

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