roberth Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Hey guys, I have a question regarding the performance of Affinity Designer using only a CPU. Working with large and complex files, really slows down my AD and im wondering if a graphics card would solve that problem, so I thought maybe i ask you guys here with more experience. My current specs are the following: Windows 10 Pro 64bit Intel i7-7700 @ 3.60 GHz 32GB RAM AD Version 1.5.3.69 So my AD is currently running only over the CPU and I thought maybe adding a GPU would increase the performance but after reading some topics in this forum I became a bit sceptical if this would improve my performance. Is it true that a GPU would only have a little impact on my experience? Or are these problems generally existent in the windows version? Unfortunatly I can't provide a example file due to corporate privacy guidelines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted June 14, 2017 Staff Share Posted June 14, 2017 In this post The developers discuss how our apps make use of your machine's CPU & GPU it start about dual cards on a Mac but the Windows version works the same way when moving data around as the Mac version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nait Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 The GPU is hardly used (unfortunatly), also RAM is not a big issue. AMD FX-8350 > 4GHz RAM 16 GB 1866 MHz Radeon R9 280 3GB On a very heavy processing (loads of live filters with masks) of a night sky milky way shoot the export of the 16 MP file took about 2 mins, while RAM was at max. 2 GB and GPU was idle (export does not at all use the GPU, which is really not something great). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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