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Replacing old PC; do I need a GPU for Photo to use Hardware Acceleration


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I am about to replace my old 64 bit PC with Windows 10 Pro, an intel (R) Core Duo CPU E850, OS build 19041.804.  I am looking at a much higher spec PC with an Intel i9 10th gen 10 core processor. 

My question is,  Is a graphics card (GPU) such as a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics processor, or better,  necessary with such a high spec CPU?  What is the advantage, if any, for having a graphics card?

At present I am finding editing in Affinity Photo very slow.  I cannot update the OS to 19042.804. I just get the message saying:  'Cannot update, PC too old.'  Thus, I am unable to select Hardware Acceleration option in the Preferences to enable OpenCL compute acceleration.  I work with RAW files.

Note: I have posted this topic previously but in the wrong category. I'm a newbie to these forums so any comments would be welcome.

Chris Wales

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