Link via John Nack on Adobe
In the wake of various sneak peeks, I’m seeing a fair number of questions about what kinds of graphics cards GPUs will be required or recommended for running Photoshop going forward.
We’ll have more to say once the new version is announced, but very generally I can say you’ll want at least 128MB RAM on a card that’s Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0 compatible. Of course, more brawn is always welcome, and if you anticipate working with numerous large documents and/or 3D, having 512MB RAM on your card is a good idea.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been demoing by tossing around an enormous image on a 2-year-old ATI Radeon 1600 card 256MB in a MacBook Pro, and it does just fine. If your GPU doesn’t meet Photoshop’s requirements, you won’t lose any features you have today, but certain new things won’t be enabled. As I say, we can get into more details soon.
Photoshop CS3 Extended is available at an academic discount price of $295.
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