Nvidia gt220 for photoshop c5 extended.

hello.

does anybody know if the gt220 card would be good for cs5 extended and 3d applications in photoshop.
its not for gaming or anything to do with playing games just for photoshop 3d. ive just got cs5 extended and the card ive got isnt that much good also my pc is about 8 years old.
i want this new pc and the graphics card is the gt220.

thank you.

phil

first and foremost, photoshop and other such apps DO have gpu acceleration but thats not to say you can neglect the other components and just rely on the GPU. To benefit from GPU acceleration you really need to be able to ensure everything else is up to par, because what good is it if the cpu cannot feed data quick enough? The gpu will simply do its job then hang until it receives more data, its just a simple bottleneck. So knowing your specs is important and you might be in the position to upgrade some other components to really improve the overall experience.

That being said, the features CS5 supports for graphics acceleration can be found here and a list of tested/supported GPUs can be found here. You can also see examples of what Nvidia's gpu acceleration can do here on NVidia's site.

The GT220 is supported and by all means is not a bad gpu. For the types of things you would use in content creation, this will be plenty of power assuming the rest of your system is not a bottleneck. For any other GPU accelerated features through, that requires the GPU to do encoding (like through After Effects) I would suggest a more powerful gpu if possible.

That last point about what GPU acceleration can do; I can't seem to figure out how to do any of those cool tricks. I've got a powerful enough GPU, and I even set it to advanced, where it uses more GPU acceleration than normal but my zooming for example is still not fluid...

thanks for the reply.

ive tried to post the specs on the pc i want but without success. the pc is a packard bell ixtreme x6620.
there is another which is a hp pavilion s5320 which has a nvidia gforce g210 card. there the two pc's im looking at with the budget ive got. thanks for the links stang they really did help. thank you.

phil