Graphics card necessary?
Jun 12, 2019 15:59:48 #
The guys on Fstoppers say that a separate graphics card is not necessary in a laptop. Agree or not?
Jun 12, 2019 16:04:43 #
Jun 12, 2019 16:05:42 #
Not for Post Processing photographs. Graphics cards speed up refresh speed for games etc. non of my PC's have ever had one...Way back in WIN3 you could actually see the gimp screen refresh line by line!! but not ever since....
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Jun 12, 2019 16:18:33 #
I'll go along with G Brown, not needed for editing images.
(All our laptops over the years were just the standard off-the-shelf models.)
(All our laptops over the years were just the standard off-the-shelf models.)
Jun 12, 2019 16:29:40 #
Jun 12, 2019 17:06:45 #
Sonny Boy wrote:
The guys on Fstoppers say that a separate graphics card is not necessary in a laptop. Agree or not?
It can be with larger images and 4K displays. An engineering workstation card, like an Nvidia Quadro, is even better, especially if you want to use a 30 bit color pipeline for your graphics.
But you may want to look at a better source, such as Puget Systems, for some benchmarks and detailed analysis.
Jun 12, 2019 18:09:00 #
Thanks. I'm thinking of getting a laptop dedicated to running Capture One. A factory refurbished Dell may fit the bill.
Jun 12, 2019 18:21:23 #
For video, Premiere Elements is one that doesn't use a graphics card but Premiere Pro can use it to speed up rendering.
Jun 12, 2019 20:16:36 #
TBerwick
Loc: Houston, Texas
FYI, you can't install a separate graphics card in a laptop. You can spend hundreds on cards for desktop machines, however, and many gamers do just that. Some of the gaming laptops may have higher end graphics but I really don't follow that since I don't have time to play games on computers. When would I have time to process RAW otherwise? LOL
Jun 12, 2019 21:56:30 #
It’s not necessary, but it is preferable. Why? Because using the graphics and cache on the CPU (and DRAM instead of VRAM) compromises computing and memory performance.
Jun 13, 2019 07:04:45 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
G Brown wrote:
Not for Post Processing photographs. Graphics cards speed up refresh speed for games etc. non of my PC's have ever had one...Way back in WIN3 you could actually see the gimp screen refresh line by line!! but not ever since....
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Laptops have a graphics chip in them since a graphics card won't fit in a laptop. They are not as powerful as a graphics card. Your PCs had a built in graphics chip on the motherboard if you never had a graphics card. Without one or the other you would not see any video at all on a PC or a laptop!
Jun 13, 2019 07:08:01 #
AirWalter
Loc: Tipp City, Ohio
BebuLamar wrote:
I have both types of laptop. Don't see a difference for Photoshop.
What are both types of laptops?
Jun 13, 2019 07:30:42 #
ggab
Loc: ?
Sonny Boy wrote:
The guys on Fstoppers say that a separate graphics card is not necessary in a laptop. Agree or not?
It depends upon the application. If the application can use the CUDA cores in a dedicated video chip, use it.
It also depends upon the processing you do. If all you do is crop and adjust exposure etc. one picture at a time, probably not.
If you do HDR or batch processing of many files at a time and the program can use the CUDA cores of the video chip and you want/can afford the dedicated video chip and faster vRAM the GO FOR IT!
Jun 13, 2019 07:32:10 #
AirWalter wrote:
What are both types of laptops?
The more common type use the CPU for graphics too. The graphic function is built into the CPU.
The other has dedicated GPU for graphic.
Of course there is no separate graphic card in a laptop.
Jun 13, 2019 07:43:29 #
ggab
Loc: ?
BebuLamar wrote:
The more common type use the CPU for graphics too. The graphic function is built into the CPU.
The other has dedicated GPU for graphic.
Of course there is no separate graphic card in a laptop.
The other has dedicated GPU for graphic.
Of course there is no separate graphic card in a laptop.
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