Games are much more demanding on a GPU than photo editing.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/30/2012 1:31 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> On the Mac there will be increasing amounts of processing carried out by the
> GPU; I should think that the same will happen across other OSs as well. So a
> GPU might be necessary if you are carrying out intensive editing on large
> images.
>
> But my little MacBook Air, with its integrated GPU and 1.6GHz i5, works just
> fine with images from a digital camera
>
> Chris
>
> On 30 Jun 2012, at 06:15, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>
>> So you would say that for regular (still) photo editing there is no need
>> for a fancy graphics card, and the embedded video capabilities of the
>> motherboard are sufficient? That's very interesting.
>> I had always assumed (and the probably ill-informed salespeople were happy
>> to confirm) that if 'I want to use it for Photo editing' ---> 'Well Sir,
>> you'll need this fancy graphics card'.
>> I guess there's still the issue of shared RAM to be avoided...
>> cheers
>> jez
>>
>> On 28 June 2012 05:05, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the new
>>> Z77 mother boards support dual display, you may not need a seperate graphic
>>> card. You can put the extra money for a faster processor.
>>
>
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