Do graphic cards impact work and productivity?

[Bruno Vincent]

I don't game ever.

This is for work, but I do graphic design sometimes with Adobe illustrator and so on and multitask a lot.

Would I be better with an i5 8400 with HD 630 or with a R7 250? They seem to be about the same speed.

I'm trying to choose between i5 8400 no graphics card vs Ryzen 1600 with cheap graphics card.

My goal is speed and power, doesn't have to look pretty 😉

 

[constantine_99]

i recommend R5 1600
it's a great bang in the buck, and the multitasking performance is much better than the i5 [given coz it had hyperthreading]
some apps leans toward CPU power, but some other needs the GPU power too, so a discrete would be better imo since a integrated GPU technically hogs some resource [resource shared after all] that ur CPU could've use

 

[4745454b]

The nice thing about having a "real" GPU is that they are more flexible then the IGP found in Intel's CPUs. They have more working units and can do work faster. PS does support using a GPU to render things. Here is a list from Adobe.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html

If you do any of this, having a GPU can allow you to do those things faster. I haven't see reviews on the 8400 yet so I'm not sure how it's speed relates to the R1600. I would lean towards the R1600 and the GPU however. If you do anything that speeds up with a GPU it will be a great thing to have.

 

[jaslion]

I don't game ever.

This is for work, but I do graphic design sometimes with Adobe illustrator and so on and multitask a lot.

Would I be better with an i5 8400 with HD 630 or with a R7 250? They seem to be about the same speed.

I'm trying to choose between i5 8400 no graphics card vs Ryzen 1600 with cheap graphics card.

My goal is speed and power, doesn't have to look pretty 😉

An i5 8400 with it's hd 630 is fine for illustrator unless your files get huge. Then an added gpu will be a good idea. Do go for an nvidia card since cuda acceleration is much prefered by adobe programs.

 

[Bruno Vincent]

I don't game ever.

This is for work, but I do graphic design sometimes with Adobe illustrator and so on and multitask a lot.

Would I be better with an i5 8400 with HD 630 or with a R7 250? They seem to be about the same speed.

I'm trying to choose between i5 8400 no graphics card vs Ryzen 1600 with cheap graphics card.

My goal is speed and power, doesn't have to look pretty 😉

An i5 8400 with it's hd 630 is fine for illustrator unless your files get huge. Then an added gpu will be a good idea. Do go for an nvidia card since cuda acceleration is much prefered by adobe programs.

Awesome advice, didn't know that nvidia was for Adobe😉

 

[4745454b]

It's not. If you check the link I provided you will see the AMD cards that are also supported.

 

[k1114]

I would lean towards the i5 for performance (slightly higher single threaded which is needed for ai, ps and similar) but ryzen for value (slightly cheaper cpu and probably mobo). The performance difference is small so you probably couldn't even notice the difference. The igpu can handle gpu accelerated functions fine vs a low end gpu. The other thing to consider is availability as the new coffee lake cpus are in low supply. You'd have to go with ryzen if you want a pc anytime soon.

Most adobe don't even have cuda and it's a common misconception. Of all of the adobe software, none of them except 2 have it. Ae but very few use 3d ray tracing. And Pr also has opencl which gets the same performance on amd. Everything else is usually opengl and it makes no difference which company you go with. The r7 250 may not be a good deal depending on the price. It might be around the rx 550 or gt 1030.

 

[jaslion]

It's not. If you check the link I provided you will see the AMD cards that are also supported.

It just works better with nvidia thats what I meant. Amd is fine but when comparing same performance cards in other applications you'll see that the nvidia card will pull away from the amd one.

 

[k1114]

It doesn't work better with nvidia and it will not pull away from amd in other software either. Opengl is a mixed bag depending on the software and with the other tasks being opencl in adobe, nvidia gpus don't fair as well. The only real even playing field is premiere when you compare cuda vs opencl which we see are too close to matter. Gpu acceleration in ai is negligible anyways. When you go into higher end gpus, the price/performance isn't fair because mining but that's the only consideration. In this case, something similar like the 550 vs 1030 are not going to have any noticeable difference.

 

[Bruno Vincent]

I would lean towards the i5 for performance (slightly higher single threaded which is needed for ai, ps and similar) but ryzen for value (slightly cheaper cpu and probably mobo). The performance difference is small so you probably couldn't even notice the difference. The igpu can handle gpu accelerated functions fine vs a low end gpu. The other thing to consider is availability as the new coffee lake cpus are in low supply. You'd have to go with ryzen if you want a pc anytime soon.

Most adobe don't even have cuda and it's a common misconception. Of all of the adobe software, none of them except 2 have it. Ae but very few use 3d ray tracing. And Pr also has opencl which gets the same performance on amd. Everything else is usually opengl and it makes no difference which company you go with. The r7 250 may not be a good deal depending on the price. It might be around the rx 550 or gt 1030.

actually, the ryzren build will cost about 20% more.....;(

 

[constantine_99]

I would lean towards the i5 for performance (slightly higher single threaded which is needed for ai, ps and similar) but ryzen for value (slightly cheaper cpu and probably mobo). The performance difference is small so you probably couldn't even notice the difference. The igpu can handle gpu accelerated functions fine vs a low end gpu. The other thing to consider is availability as the new coffee lake cpus are in low supply. You'd have to go with ryzen if you want a pc anytime soon.

Most adobe don't even have cuda and it's a common misconception. Of all of the adobe software, none of them except 2 have it. Ae but very few use 3d ray tracing. And Pr also has opencl which gets the same performance on amd. Everything else is usually opengl and it makes no difference which company you go with. The r7 250 may not be a good deal depending on the price. It might be around the rx 550 or gt 1030.

actually, the ryzren build will cost about 20% more.....;(

well, u are getting more core/ threads, also the CPU is OCable, which should offer more extra performance