First Tests: Adobe Photoshop for M1 Macs Is Quick, But Not Always 1.5x Faster
Still, the improvement is early evidence that M1-powered Macs can offer an advantage over competing machines for creative pros who use Adobe’s products frequently. By Tom Brant
12 Mar 2021, 7:02 a.m.
Adobe 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. 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.
Adobe releases native version of Photoshop for Apple M1 Macs
When Apple launched the newest Macs with Apple Silicon M1 chip, Adobe did not have stable native versions of Photoshop and Premiere Pro ready yet. Yesterday, Adobe finally released a stable version of Photoshop that will run natively on the M1 Macs, touting significant performance gains across the app.
Previously, running Photoshop on the M1 Macs would require Rosetta 2, which is Apple’s translation software for non-native apps. While this worked well for the most part, Photoshop could not utilize many of the performance and hardware acceleration capabilities of the M1 chip.
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