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.