A question about the GPU.
I just built a new PC with Win 11pro and the new 13th gen i7-13700K cpu and is running the current version of ON1 Photo RAW 2023.
I haven't replaced my EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU yet though. It fulfills the requirements you set for 2GB VRAM, i.a. by a good margin. The driver is updated to the latest Studio version and works well.
I have seen comparisons that show that a sharper GPU than the RTX 3050 for Photoshop use is not justifiable from a price/performance point of view. When it comes to video, DaVinci Resolve makes more use of the GPU than Adobe Premier Pro. I have also found that ON1 Photo RAW utilizes the GPU to a greater extent than Photoshop. I myself have mainly been running ON1 Photo RAW for many years and use DaVinci Resolve 18 for Video. This makes me lean towards topping my computer with an RTX 3060 Ti, which belongs to the next level of GPUs without breaking all the cost limits.
What is your opinion on ON1 about this? Was grateful for your advice.
Regards
Christer Ljungkrantz
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Christer, I've been looking at the same thing only I'm running a 1060 which runs ON1 Okay unless you zoom in and try to use brushes, then it chugs. The market is much better these days than it was a year ago so it looks like you can get one in the $400 - $500 range. Too bad Nvidia isn't producing lower performance versions of its 40 series, that would really drop the price of the 30s.
Best of luck on your decision.
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I am using a 3060Ti and On1 runs well on it.
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Go for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 with enough RAM. It's worth the investment.
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What do you prefer: RTX 3060 with 12 GB or 3060TI with 8GB?
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I went with the RTX3060 12 gig. It was within my price range and I expect it will still be useful years from now even as GPU requirements keep rising.
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RTX 3060 with 12 GB or 3060TI with 8GB? That's one of the decisions I hoped to get help with. What is best from Photo RAWs point of view? I do not think pf the gaming view, as I don't play anyway.
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My RTX 3060 has 12 GB and I'm very satisfied with it.
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If you are wondering...
I had a hard time choosing and didn't do it until the last moment.
As someone said, "the 3060 is an excellent GPU, but it's still hard to recommend it when the 3060 TI exists".
In the end, the fact that I get approx. 30% more performance for about $100 made the decision.
I felt that I would probably have regretted it if I hadn't. So it had to be the 3060TI.
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Christer, once you get a chance to play with it some come back and let us know how it went. Enjoy!
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I went for the 3060 Ti GPU.
I have been running the latest version of PhotoRaw 2023 for some time now, and I must say it´s a pleasure. Of course I cannot compare the difference between 3060 and 3060 Ti as I never tested 3060. It´s not all about the GPU as most things in this PC are much faster. 16 cores e.g.instead of 4 should make difference. The only time it slows down is with intense retuching. I suppose it´s the cash that builds up and finally reach the limit. If you have any thoughts about this, please let us know.
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I have just finished building a new PC. My old one was 13 years old with windows 10, a 3 core athlon, 3 SSDs, 32 GB RAM although I had upgraded the graphics card a few times finishing with a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. PR 2020 ran ok on it except when 1) masking when zoomed in 2) if there were a lot of layers (not something I do much) 3) exporting and 4) when initially loading a RAW file to edit. I didn't buy 2021 but I did upgrade to PR 2022 but ever since the first release it marked my NEF raw files as corrupt and crashed. Same problem existed with PR 2023.
My new PC is windows 11, a MSI Pro Z690-A WIFI DDR4, 12th generation i7 12700KF, 1 TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2, 32GB of 3600Mhz DDR4 and my old SSDs. I was going to buy a 3060 but by sheer chance ebuyer were waiting on stock so I decided to wait and use my old graphics card.
The first thing I notice is that PR nolonger crashes or marks my raw files as corrupt. The second thing is even PR 2023 is blindingly fast in comparison and certainly quick enough for me.
- PR loads in about 3s
- Double clicking on a raw file in the browser to edit takes about 2s to display and a further 1s for the render progress bar to disappear but if you've edited it previously the total time is less than 1s
- When I browse a brand new folder full of raw images they are displayed faster than I can scroll my mouse down
- In edit mode I can scroll between images at about one every 2s but this reduces to < 1s once viewed (e.g., if you go backwards)
- I can scroll around a 100% zoomed image with a very slight jerkiness (barely noticeable)
- I can use the masking brushes on a 100% zoomed image with the display mask showing and there is only a tiny lag
- exporting an image is immediate - don't even notice it
I've not even bothered putting the caches etc on a separate SSD yet. Whilst I'm sure a newer, faster, more expensive GPU would improve things this setup is plenty fast enough for me and I'm not going to bother spending £500 on a newer GPU yet.
I only post this because there is a lot of talk about needing a super fast GPU to run PR but a 1060 is pretty old now and it certainly works more than satisfactory for me.
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Martin, thanks for the post! I also am running a 1060 on my main machine and have been looking at upgrading to a used 3090 ($$$) but your post has me rethinking it. The machine is running a 10K series of the i7 so the GPU is rather recent. Running PR on that machine really isn't a problem except retouching at 100%.
My laptop, on the other hand, is running an 8550 i5 with a 1050 GPU. That one struggles with PR and runs very hot, but, I'm finding I can do basic editing on my cloud synced files with the laptop and fine tune them on the desktop.
I think I will hold off a bit on the GPU upgrade.
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