Dell Workstation Video Card Upgrade worthwhile?

[StalkerON]

Hello,


I have a Dell Precision 490, with two 3Ghz dual Xeon processors, 16GB of Ram.

The current video card is nVidia Quadro 3450, PCI Express x16 1.0 graphics card slot;

I would like to know if my workstation allows for the video card upgrade to:

nVidia Quadro K2000 or nvidia Quadro K4000

First of all I would like to know if the Dell Precision 490 system specs (I have a large power source) permit it.

Also, my PCI Express x16 1.0 graphics card slot should allow for a PCI Express x16 2.0 video card to fit the slot but downgrade the speed a little, as far as I have read. I guess I could replace cards with my own hands...
So this first question is actually more for the people at Dell...

Also, second question:

I would like to know other people's opinion if this upgrade is worth while...

Mainly I will use my system for heavy large file editing in Photoshop (CS6& CC) and intensive 3D work in Autodesk Maya(2011&2014) and Vue Infinite.

Will one of the above mentioned video cards make a considerable difference in speed while I process photography(usual curves,saturation,etc and plugins such as Nik Software and Topaz Sharpener) \ and display 3D graphic\s in the viewports? I know that in 3D rendering the processors&RAM are used, not the video card. In viewport display, video card is used but how much improvement would come with an upgrade? Perhaps all the textures would show faster

When will the CUDA cores be used and is the new video card architecture important for this kind of work? Will OpenGl display benefit from this? ( I believe both Photoshop & Maya use OpenGl for display but will it work better?)

But sometimes I will also work with HD video files with Adobe Premiere CS6&CC and Adobe After Effects. Here as far as I know the new video card will make very very much difference... but how much?


I would appreciate advice on having this upgrade...

Thank you,

Daniel

 

[legokill101]

yes you can and it will be becuase they will be used in photoshops as well as any aplications that list suport and all adobe aplications after cs5 make use of graphics cards

 

[StalkerON]

Yes... what I read was that only my video editing work will truly benefit from this and all the CUDA cores. the VRAM of the card will benefit all programs in general but in Photoshop only certain effects have to do with CUDA or new hardware. more video card RAM will maybe be better for handling larger files but I don't know if it will only be a slight difference and most of the work still goes through system RAM.

3D processing and rendering is only CPU and RAM. only showing textures in viewport will benefit.

So overall the upgrade seems only slight... without a full system upgrade/replacement to back it up