Dedicated Video card for Gaming only???

I was reading a post about the Nvidia Quadro 140M video card in the Lenovo forum...and people have posted that this type of card has no performance benefit to people who do Photoshop and Video editing. This was news to me, as I thought that a more powerful dedicated video card was always benefitial to these programs. I always felt that the more powerful vid cards helped with overal system performance (snappy windows, fast picture previews, aero, smooth DVD or other video play, DVD burning/compressing, etc.

Does anyone have more definitive answers on this? if this is true. Ive been fooling myself into waiting for dedicated video cards when I could have just gone with an integrated card.

 

errr no those tasks that you mentioned are highly dependant on the CPU and system RAM more than the graphics card. the graphics card does help somewhat in video playing by perhaps improving quality and help taking some load off the CPU but not for burning/compressing/editing/photoshopping. these tasks are CPU dependant. todays video cards have your standard 2D benefits of providing visuals but they vary on their ability to play games and of graphics rendering.

The quadro is a 3D graphics modeling card, it can play games but it is not really designed for that purpose.

an integrated card can do all the things you wanted up there, as long as you dont want to do 3D graphics or gaming, they will run fine

 

thanks for the input...i could have sworn that if I was batch processing 200 RAW files into JPGS in PHotoshop...a dedicated vid card would have helped!

 

Unfortunately, no I don't even think that multiple cores will help, as the only parts of Photoshop that are threaded are the filters. The main application's functions are still single threads, and are often just bandwidth-starved. It appears that Adobe's engineers can't figure out how to divide images up into chunks for processing, and rather treat the whole image as a whole image, all the time.