![]() ![]() My old iMac running an HDD that is 7 years old destroys my modern Windows rig in Adobe performance. Not the epitome of elite, but plenty powerful enough that photo editing should be trivial but I think my point is relevant. One contains the OS/apps, the other contains footage/scratch) 2x M.2 NVME SSD (both bench at 3.2gb/s. If I try to open an 8gb composite now, Photoshop has a meltdown. These days I'm just retouching 24mp files, max 10-15 layers and Photoshop chugs constantly. ![]() There was a time when I worked with 36mp composite files containing hundreds of layers on my old iMac (5+ years ago) and it handled them ok, not great, but ok. I don't even push it all that hard anymore. Meanwhile, the same machine can edit 4k footage with butter smoothness in DaVinci without even spiking the CPU or the GPU. There are some fundamental implementation flaws in the windows version that need to be addressed. Meanwhile, Photoshop's ram footprint grows and grows until it either crashes or becomes unusable. Adobe regularity has one of my 8 cores at 100% and the other 7 idle. I even plan to buy an M1 Mac at some point so will have an appreciation of the M1 performance, but I want to edit on my desktop rig, not a laptop.Īs for the assertion that nothing can be done on intel processors and it is intel's, that's hogwash. Why not invest in the bigger problem first? Windows performance has been awful for years. Oh, I know, that is unquestionable, but the number of Photoshop users on Windows must outnumber Photoshop users on M1 Macs by 1,000:1 or even greater. You can read more on Adobe's official blog post here. Users can now also store cloud documents offline as needed. Users can select certain versions so that they don't expire as well. The first feature allows users to browse and revert back to different versions of files that are up to 60 days old. Lastly, Photoshop for iPad users will now enjoy Cloud Documents Version History and Cloud Documents offline access. This feature is powered by the GPU, making it run much faster. Leveraging machine learning that has been trained on millions of photos, this new feature promises to enlarge images while preserving edges and details, effectively increasing the resolution of photos. The company advises that if you need these features that you use Rosetta 2 until they are available.Īll versions of Photoshop will now also have access to Super Resolution in Camera Raw. There are a few features that are not yet available in the M1 version of Photoshop, such as Preset Syncing and Invite to Edit Cloud Documents. Today, Adobe has announced the availability of the first native version of Photoshop for M1 Macs, and it promises some impressive speed improvements, with resource-intensive features like Content-Aware Fill running about 1.5x faster on average. M1 Macs have shown a lot of potential for performance improvements (particularly relative to cost) and impressive battery life. ![]()
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