These include resizing the image, applying Watercolor and Stained Glass effects, and using several types of blur filters. While the test has evolved slightly over the years, many of the operations haven’t changed much since Photoshop CS6 was released nearly a decade ago. Our test involves timing how long it takes to apply a series of 10 filters and effects to a JPG image. Adobe notes that some of these operations “feel noticeably faster,” which will likely gratify photographers and other digital artists who use Photoshop all day long.Įvery artist uses Photoshop differently, of course, and so does every benchmark test. 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.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.

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