Photo editing software these days is placing extraordinary demands upon your computer and it’s resources. Motherboards, CPUs Memory. But increasingly, Photo software companies are moving a lot of that load to your video card and it’s own memory and processors. Since the introduction of Photoshop CS4, Adobe has shifted a lot of the work of editing photos over to the GPU (Graphic Processor Unit) rather than only the CPU. So much so that Adobe set about standards that Graphics boards needed to meet for their software to run at its optimum
A lot of Plug-in makers like Nik software, Topaz labs or onOne rely heavily on Video cards and Open GL Continue reading
