I realize anything newish is better than the 640 cuda cores I have now, but is it worth spending the money on a 30 series? or are the performance gains minimal after say the 1050ti? In other words, is the extra $500 going to significantly reduce processing times or am I going to save a couple seconds?įor what its worth, current processing times for the photo used in the Topaz GPU benchmarking thread on here are 11'50' with the GPU and 1'31' with my CPU in sharpen.One of the best features of the Topaz AI model is its ability to increase video smoothness. From what people have said here and on other forums/threads, Nvidia is the preferred platform so I will stick with that. In sharpen at least, the CPU is significantly faster (it should be it is significantly newer).ĭespite the astronomical prices for video cards these days, I am looking at purchasing a new one. I am aware of the option to choose GPU over CPU.

Sorry for the long delay in my response, I had no idea anyone had responded (I never got notifications). The GTX1650 runs lower power than most (therefore is pretty quiet) and draws this power from the PCI slot. My choice of GPU was really dictated by the need to pick one which did not have an external power connector as it would have meant replacing the PSU on my PC. I only use the Topaz plug-ins after I have cropped the images to viewing size (1800x1200), Denoise AI and Sharpen AI never take more than 10 seconds, although times vary depending on options chosen. I then installed PL4 under WIN10 and this cut the processing time of a RAW file using Deep Prime to around 15 seconds. This was recognised by PL2 and cut the processing time for a raw file under Prime to around 1 minute 15 seconds.

This was not recognised by PL2 so processing defaulted to the CPU and was taking 5-7 minutes to process a 16mb RAW file under Prime.Īt the beginning of the year I managed to get hold of a 4Gb Nvidia GTX1650. I was running Photolab2 under WIN7 with a fairly old GPU (Radeon R7240).

I have a CPU which is probably about 8 years old (Athlon X4740).

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