tangled mentation
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I know some of this has been covered before but I need some further advice.
I recently upgraded my monitor to a lovely, wonderful etc, etc Dell UP3216Q, which runs natively at 3840x2160 (i.e. 4k). It cleared out the bank but the images are great, so much so that a professional photographer mate of mine (and mentor) brings stuff over to view on it.
But my copy of LR (2015.7) can run alarmingly slowly, especially as I have a well-specced PC with 32GB of Ram (an i7-4770 running at 3.5Ghz). It has recently dawned on me that one of the major issues may be the upgrade to a 4k monitor (duh, I hear you all crying).
I have a Geforce GTX 960m, which is a pretty good card. The simple question is, would upgrading to a newer card, one of the 10 series, produce a useful improvement? If so, do I need to go for a (more expensive) 1070 or 1080 or would the (relatively) less expensive 1060 do the trick?
Given that more 4k monitors are appearing, I suspect this may be an increasingly common question. I would be grateful for some advice (and my pockets are not deep enough to go out and get a new graphics card without good reason. I have been busy implementing all of the excellent advice in Victoria's recent publications on optimising LR - a great resource. Hope this makes sense. I'm writing late in the evening, as usual.
I recently upgraded my monitor to a lovely, wonderful etc, etc Dell UP3216Q, which runs natively at 3840x2160 (i.e. 4k). It cleared out the bank but the images are great, so much so that a professional photographer mate of mine (and mentor) brings stuff over to view on it.
But my copy of LR (2015.7) can run alarmingly slowly, especially as I have a well-specced PC with 32GB of Ram (an i7-4770 running at 3.5Ghz). It has recently dawned on me that one of the major issues may be the upgrade to a 4k monitor (duh, I hear you all crying).
I have a Geforce GTX 960m, which is a pretty good card. The simple question is, would upgrading to a newer card, one of the 10 series, produce a useful improvement? If so, do I need to go for a (more expensive) 1070 or 1080 or would the (relatively) less expensive 1060 do the trick?
Given that more 4k monitors are appearing, I suspect this may be an increasingly common question. I would be grateful for some advice (and my pockets are not deep enough to go out and get a new graphics card without good reason. I have been busy implementing all of the excellent advice in Victoria's recent publications on optimising LR - a great resource. Hope this makes sense. I'm writing late in the evening, as usual.