Help please with low profile GPUs

what the difference between the low profile cards   HD7450    and the     650

How much better will the nvidia be in CS6?

 

The 7450 is just a re-branded 6450, which is about as low-end as one can get; the Intel HD 4000 is nearly as fast a 6450. The GTX 650 will be much better, especially for the money. However, to throw a wrench in this process, the low profile 7750 can be had for a litte less, and the two are about even. It's going to boil down on how well CS6 can use OpenCL vs CUDA.

Personally, I'd go 7750, but I don't use CS, so I can't say for certain one way or the other.

To make things even more interesting

-this is for my school BTW

they got robbed by HP,..... $700....

I'm making a setup for sub700 for cs6 rendering

cs6 dosent use open cl so no point useing a AMD card 

#1a1a1a ; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mercury Graphics Engine

The Mercury Graphics Engine (MGE) represents features that use video card, or GPU, acceleration. In Photoshop CS6, this new engine delivers near-instant results when editing with key tools such as Liquify, Warp, Lighting Effects and the Oil Paint filter. The new MGE delivers unprecedented responsiveness for a fluid feel as you work.

MGE is new to Photoshop CS6, and uses [u]both the OpenGL and OpenCL frameworks. It does not use the proprietary CUDA framework from nVidia [/u]

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4289204

OpenCL support in MPE is permanently disabled on all released Windows versions of Premiere Pro CS6

(pre-release) cs6 had it enabled 

Adobe decided to permanently disable OpenCL support for the shipping version of Premiere Pro CS6 for Windows.

Now anless thay renabled it again (there is a lot of chat about it on adobes open communtiy)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/5081691

Well, I'd go 650, given Adobe's shakey OpenCL support.