
(If you want specifics, Puget Systems are doing regular testing.) What we will do is talk about which hardware benefits different Lightroom tasks.

We’re not going to go into specific hardware recommendations, because they’d be out of date almost immediately. Here is a statement from Jeffrey Tranberry of Adobe about these operating system and GPU requirements.Every single day, we see posts asking how to choose a new computer for Lightroom. Click here for a list of Mac computers that support Metal. Mac: computer that supports Metal, and at least 2 GB of VRAM (video card RAM). Windows: graphics card with DirectX 12 support, at least 2GB of VRAM and a recently released driver. 2019 Lightroom Classic and Cloud-Based Lightroom: If the performance improvement introduced in 8.4 or 2.4 made a substantial difference for you but your graphics card or computer doesn’t meet the new Direct X or Metal requirements, then you may wish to continue to use Classic 8.4.1 or 2.4.1 until you upgrade your hardware.įull Requirements for GPU Peformance Improvements in Nov. With the upcoming releases, support for OpenGL is being dropped. When Adobe introduced image-editing performance improvements in Lightroom Classic 8.4 and cloud-based Lightroom 2.4, gained by use of the graphics processor to perform these calculations, your graphics card was required to support either OpenGL or Direct X (or Metal on Mac). Window 7: Service pack 1 – supported for Lightroom Classic only, not for the cloud-based Lightroom Lightroom Classic GPU acceleration performance features won’t work. Version 1709 will no longer be supported. Sierra (10.12) will no longer be supported. Lightroom Classic and Cloud-Based Lightroom Operating System Requirements There will be some system requirement changes at this time.

Adobe’s MAX conference is early next month, which means that there will be new Lightroom Classic and cloud-based Lightroom releases.
