PUBLIC MARKS from pgiger with tag photoshop

"Sorry to disabuse you of your ideas, but changing your graphics card will not affect the speed of Photoshop one Iota. Photoshop does not use a 3D API, nor does it transfer any processing to the graphics card. Photoshop is CPU and RAM limited ONLY. You have a HEAP of RAM (far more than you really need I suspect - and unused RAM might as well be in the top drawer of your desk for all the good it does you.) so the only thing to hasten PS performance is a new/faster CPU. More disabusing I'm afraid: Memory on a graphics card is only used for storing textures. True, the front and back buffers are there too, as well as a limited amount which is used for anti-aliasing and other 3D effects, but the vast majority is there to store textures in OpenGL or DirectX. So - the amount of memory on your GFx card HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH PC PERFORMANCE OUTSIDE OF 3D APPLICATIONS. Hope this saves you wasting your money. If you aren't a 3D gamer, then you most definitely DO NOT NEED A NEW GFX CARD."