Video card for Lightroom question.

BruceUSA wrote on 6/4/2015, 12:59 PM

hi all,

I love my AMD 2X R9 290x watercooled overclocked @1200/1500. It works great in Vegas and I would not change for anything else at the movement. BUT I also work with Adobe Lightroom 4 a lot. and my system is powerful but I feel the performance in LR is a little lag. I wonder If I install a Nivida card into the middle slot of my motherboard. Will Nivida card perform much more snapy in LR. The card I am thinking about is GTX780 TI. Tell me what do you think.

Comments

prairiedogpics wrote on 6/4/2015, 1:29 PM

LR4 does not utilize the GPU, only CPU and RAM matter:

http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/37805/is-gpu-or-cpu-more-important-for-photoshop-and-lightroom

amendegw wrote on 6/4/2015, 2:13 PM

And here is the latest on Adobe Lightroom CC state and future of GPU utilization: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1828580

...Jerry

BruceUSA wrote on 6/4/2015, 3:42 PM

Thank you all for your input.

Cliff Etzel wrote on 6/4/2015, 6:49 PM

How are you using Lightroom? TBH, I keep Lightroom only to go thru my old catalogs which I am slowly migrating to Phase One Capture 7/8 and because I can now create LUT's in Lightroom via this plugin (http://www.johnrellis.com/lightroom/exportlut.htm) . Capture 7/8 does utilize the GPU but is more resource intensive and does a much better job at handling RAW still images compared to Lightroom. I regularly assist the busiest commercial photographer in the region as his DIT/Lighting person and he swears by Capture 7/8.

BruceUSA wrote on 6/4/2015, 7:37 PM

@Cliff. I use LR for exposure correction, white balance, satuation, sharpen and healing tool. If I import a Folder with 100+ photos into LR. The loading is slow and when I apply a healing to a photo, it's take a few seconds to applied. If I import less photos and LR is very snappy. I can apply healing tool one after another and applied instantly. All my raw images stay on a 7200rpm hard drive and I export the photo into drive C (SSD). Maybe I should export to a separate hard drive, just like I do for video. This might help with the loading.

BruceUSA wrote on 6/17/2015, 11:43 AM

Bought Lightroom 6 stand alone version. Install and try it. Its awesome, unbelievable. Lightroom 6 rock with AMD R9 290X really really well. Every time I apply anything to a photo and it applied instantly. I can work on a photo boom boom boom and done. No more waiting times and or laggin.

prairiedogpics wrote on 6/17/2015, 6:34 PM

I too have switched to Capture One Pro 8, away from LR 4/5.

COP 8 renders my RAW images beautifully and leaves LR in the dust.

COP also has a trial version, btw.