- Mac hardware specs for photoshop 64 Bit#
- Mac hardware specs for photoshop upgrade#
- Mac hardware specs for photoshop professional#
With my previous setup, when I would paint a brush stroke (500px+ radius), it would literally take up to three minutes to register but I lived with it for quite a long time. It depends on how much patience you have.
Mac hardware specs for photoshop upgrade#
Pretty outdated.Īs for your question on if you NEED to upgrade - well.
Yes, no CUDA cores required - with CS6 comes the Mercury Engine which uses OpenGL and OpenCL, so an nVidia card with more CUDA cores is not required any more. If you do plan on upgrading the GPU, make sure you buy an OpenCL capable GPU. I would personally suggest if you don't have to do any serious 3D modelling, skip the industry grade GPUs - the benefit you'll get using Photoshop with these cards doesn't justify the cost in my opinion. There are industry-grade GPUs available on the market, which are way more expensive than the consumer level GPUs. Also bear in mind CPUs are expensive, so upgrade this after you're done with your RAM and SSD. If you're a multi tasker, a good CPU will help. Don't neglect this, even though the RAM and SSD are very important for a nifty Photoshop experience, a slow CPU will bottleneck the performance if you open too many applications at once. The CPU handles most of the things on your system. I think the next most important part for a system streamlined to work with Photoshop is the CPU. If there is just one thing you want to upgrade, I would say add an SSD. It will give such a huge boost to your system performance you'll be stunned. I know people who buy an SSD ONLY to use as the scratch disk for Photoshop.īelieve me, an SSD is the best thing you can buy for your system right now. If you only want to use the system for Photoshop, I would say a 128GB SSD should work. I have PHotoshop installed on my SSD and it opens within a second or two. Installing Photoshop on the SSD will really help as well. So, you would benefit a lot from installing an SSD along with your HDD.
The scratch disk is to Photoshop what a page file is to your system - it acts as the "RAM" when you run out of memory. You'll find the option to set up your scratch disk in Preferences > Performance. Next, in my opinion, comes the scratch disk. I have set mine at 80%, so Photoshop can use a maximum of 12.8 GB RAM, and once it needs more it uses the scratch disk (which is the SSD in my case, more on this below). Also in the performance tab of your preferences in Photoshop, you can set how much percentage of your physical RAM Photoshop can use.
Mac hardware specs for photoshop 64 Bit#
If you're upgrading, why not upgrade properly? Plus, desktop RAM is dirt cheap.Īs pointed out in the comment below, make sure you have a 64bit OS AND use the 64 bit version of Photoshop, otherwise there's no point of having that much RAM (although since you already have 4+GB RAM I assume you have a 64bit OS).
Although, I WOULD suggest upgrading your RAM to 16GB. It depends on what size of files you'll be working with - if you've never saved a Photoshop document as a PSB, or if any of your saved Photoshop documents or TIFF files have never exceeded the 1 or 1.5GB mark, then you don't need more than 16GB - 8GB might do as well.
I have 16GB of 1666MHz RAM installed on my system, and still I get out of memory errors sometimes (although I typically have 60-80 tabs open in Chrome + music playing all the time). The RAM is the fastest storage your computer has, so having a lot of space on your RAM is required if you're working with big files. Photoshop constantly works with a lot of data, and this is stored in the RAM. You want to put in as much RAM as you can - getting more RAM is way cheaper than upgrading your CPU, for instance.
Mac hardware specs for photoshop professional#
Is it for professional reasons? Will having a faster system mean you're making more money by being more efficient? How much are you willing to invest, keeping the above in mind? Telling us your budget will potentially give you better responses as to what you should upgrade.įirst off, Photoshop is a memory hog. Before thinking of upgrading, I would suggest you evaluate what you're using Photoshop for.
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