title: ImageMagick vs GD - which is faster, less resource intensive and produces better images?
body: <p>I need to choose between either ImageMagick or GD library for the following image manipulation tasks:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>resizing images into multiple sizes</li>
  <li>watermarking images</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>As you can see I don't need anything fancy. I'm sure both these tools can achieve them, so if one has more extra features than the other, I don't really care about.</p>
  
  <p>My main concern is performance and quality. Which of these 2 tools consumes less resources, is faster and produces better quality images?</p>
  
  <p>P.S. I need to use it with their respective PHP APIs.</p>