Is my graphics card good enough?

[sparkythecat]

I'm contemplating a new monitor.

Will the 7year old NVIDIA GTX 560ti graphics card in my PC run a new QHD - 2560x1440 monitor OK, or would I be better limiting my choices to a a 1920 x 1080 HD monitor ?

[curlyks2]

sparkythecat said:

I'm contemplating a new monitor.

Will the 7year old NVIDIA GTX 560ti graphics card in my PC run a new QHD - 2560x1440 monitor OK, or would I be better limiting my choices to a a 1920 x 1080 HD monitor ?

Specs suggest you'll be fine: https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/gefo...

[thecremeegg]

It will handle it fine as long as you aren't planning on gaming.
If you are then you'll need to upgrade it really if you want to run anything above lowest settings

[HM-2]

It will be able to output to it, but anything graphically intensive will be unusable.

[sparkythecat]

I won't be gaming, but will be doing a bit of photoshop and occasional video editing.
Are you saying that it's unsuitable?

[HM-2]

For that purpose I suspect it will be fine- Photoshop doesn't tend to lean that hard on GPU unless you're using the fairly small handful of functions and filters that require GPU acceleration. So stuff like this:

Artboards
Camera Raw
Image Size – Preserve Details
Select Focus
Blur Gallery - Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, Path Blur, Spin Blur (OpenCL accelerated)
Smart Sharpen (Noise Reduction – OpenCL accelerated)
Perspective Warp
Select and Mask (OpenCL accelerated)



Video editing usually tends to be processor/RAM dependent.