If the nVidia chipset is new enough, it will speed up floating point applications that are made to use it. Not sure the current Adobe Lightroom can take advantage of it, but I have no doubt future versions will. Same with Photoshop. Illustrator will already take advantage of it.
- Alex -- It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Scott Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, just wondering what sorts of applications benefit from the discrete > Nvidia graphics option. For example, some Thinkpads come with the default > Intel graphics, whereas others have Nvidia (and some have both). > > I understand that the reason for having both is that the Nvidia draws more > power, so you can switch between them to either optimize battery or > performance. > > But I'm not quite clear on which applications get a performance boost from > Nvidia. > > For example, I use Adobe Lightroom a fair amount, but I've been told that > Nvidia won't actually speed it up much, if at all. Does that sound right? > > Is Nvidia really only useful to 3d applications like games, CAD, etc? Or > should it boost the performance across the board? > > Thanks kindly for any advice, -Scott > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
