[SOLVED] Is it better to add Ram or replace Graphics Card?

RenatoN

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Hello!

I use my PC for Photoshop photo editing and have this configuration:

Windows 10
Intel® Core™ i7-9800X CPU @ 3.80GHz
ASrock X299 Taichi XE
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
64 Gb RAM (4x16gb)
(Corsair Vengeance CMK32GX4M2B3200C16 LPX 32GB DDR4-3200)

But I want to improve its performance and I will replace Graphics or add Ram, but cannot spend on both.

What change do you guys suggest?

Thank you!!
 
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But I want to improve its performance and I will replace Graphics or add Ram, but cannot spend on both.
What change do you guys suggest?
I think - neither of those would impact Photoshop performance in any significant way.

You have plenty of ram and you have a very good graphics card.
None of those upgrades would really improve utilization of Photoshop I think. I'm not sure but I don't think you saturate all the 64GB RAM already in the system, do you? Are you having RAM shortage with the setup?

If you do gaming too and you'd want more performance out of the GPU I'd upgrade grgaphic card, although that depends on the PSU. What exact make model and how old is the PSU? An upgrade into the 3000 series of nvidia GPUs for example would require a good quality 750-850W PSU.
 
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Neither, your specs seem to be beefy enough to last a couple of more years, unless ofc you're already running into low memory issues...?
Thank you for your message! I believe I am not having issues. Sometimes Adobe programs run slower than they I think they should ,but not a memory issue.
Usually Adobe Camera Raw (updated) freezes and when returns it disables GPU acceleration mentioning an error.