
They include opening and running filters, and compute-heavy operations like Content-Aware Fill and Select Subject. Other benchmarks show even greater gains compared with older versions of Photoshop, which are intended for Intel processors and run in the Rosetta 2 emulation layer on Macs that use the M1 chip.Īdobe’s claim of 50% better performance is based on average results from many different Photoshop activities performed during the company’s internal tests. What we found in our early tests: Our own Photoshop performance test is 16% faster when running the latest version of Photoshop on the M1-equipped MacBook Pro versus running the latest version of the Creative Cloud software we ran at the M1 Macs' launch late last year. On all PCs we test, we run a Photoshop benchmark, applying a series of 10 filters to a stock PCMag image. The first benchmark tests-including our own-are now available, and they don’t quite match this claim, but they do suggest that Photoshop users will see significant improvements over older versions of Photoshop that don’t run natively on the M1 processor. How to Set Up Two-Factor AuthenticationĪdobe claims that the latest version of Photoshop, released on Wednesday, could run 50% faster on the Apple M1-equipped MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini.


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