I mostly use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop for photo editing and occasionally use Premiere for video editing on an older i7 workstation with a Quadro K2000 2GB GPU. I am testing the new Topaz Photo AI and Video AI products, aware the K2000 does not meet the minimum specification for them and hoping to find an affordable mid-tier computer upgrade to better accommodate them. There are some early Black Friday sales for Windows i7 computers with the NVidia A2000 16 GB GPU for $1,500 - $2,000 while i9 computers with the NVidia A4000 16GB are $2,500 - $3000. The NVidia A2000 16 GB appears to exceed the minimum and recommended Photo AI spec and exceed the minimum but not meet the recommended Video AI RTX 3000 spec. Can anyone possibly offer a performance opinion for using the NVidia A2000 16GB GPU with the new Topaz Photo and Video AI products versus the additional cost of an A4000 16GB GPU for someone who does mostly photo editing? Thanks, Jeff.
Why do you need the professional GPUs?
I did use them too in the past because of stability, but since the studio drivers, to me its nice to use gaming gpus too.
The only thing you need to watch out is memory size.
And i would advice you to get a RTX 4090 or wait for the next genereration in January or febuary.
I do us a 4090 for photography (99% of the time) and i do not regret it, but most of the time a 4070 ti would do the job too.
But keep in mind that the 4090 has ECC.
I do play on my workstation too, yesterday i did make use of superfocus (PhotoAI) in a 11000 px wide image and did play Stalker 2 at the same time (1920x1200 (with FSR 3 , 30% sharpening and everything other setting at epic) and i did not notice that the 4090 was in heavy use from TPAI.
Hi Thomas, thanks much for your reply. I do no gaming and have a very cursory understanding of GPUs and gaming / studio drivers. My company uses Lenovo exclusively, so their computers are my comfort base. Their GPU desktop families are primarily the professional P series workstations with a professional GPU, Windows 11 Professional for better AD networking capabilities and a three year on site warrantee or the gaming Legion series with a gaming GPU, Windows 11 Home Edition and a one year depot warrantee. Their A2000 P series workstations usually cost 25% – 50% more than RTX 40x0 Legions with similar CPUs, memory and storage, but there are a few currently on Black Friday sale that have roughly the same price as Legions, hence my focus on them. The only benefits I see for a comparable Legion other than pricing are a slightly larger power supply and additional cooling, but I have no understanding of how the professional A2000/A4000 GPUs would compare with RTX 40x0/50x0 GPUs when used primarily for TPAI, some occasional TVAI and zero gaming. I am aware of the upcoming RTX 50x0 release early next year that would normally drop the price on the remaining RTX 40x0 model inventory, but have no idea how that would impact the current A2000/A4000 P series now on sale. Regards, Jeff.
