Hardware Requirements for Adobe Software

Hardware Requirements

Adobe Creative Cloud System Requirements vary from Adobe application to application. Below is a system requirement based on common Adobe applications. The table below will illustrate the minimum required hardware to use Adobe applications. It is always recommended to go slightly higher than the minimum hardware requirements to have a decent performance.

More details of each Adobe application’s hardware requirements and it's recommendations can be found here.

Adobe Application

Processor

Operating system

RAM

Disk Space

GPU

Adobe Application

Processor

Operating system

RAM

Disk Space

GPU

After Effects

Intel or AMD Quad-Core Processor

Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) V20H2 or later

16 GB of RAM

 

15GB

2 GB of GPU VRAM

 

Animate

Intel Pentium 4 or Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon, or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor (2GHz or faster processor)

Windows 10 version V2004, V20H2 and V21H1

8 GB of RAM

4 GB

OpenGL version 3.3 or higher

Illustrator

Multicore Intel processor (with 64-bit support) with SSE 4.2 or later or AMD Athlon 64 processor with SSE 4.2 or later.

Windows 11 and Windows 10 (64-bit) versions V21H1, and V20H2.

8 GB of RAM

2 GB

1 GB of VRAM

Substance 3D Painter

Intel Core i5

AMD Ryzen 5

Windows 10 (64bit, version 1909)

16GB

30GB (SSD)

4GB of VRAM

Substance 3D Designer

Intel Core i5

AMD Ryzen 5

Windows 10 (64bit, version 1909)

16GB

30GB (SSD)

4GB of VRAM

Photoshop

Multicore Intel® or AMD processor (2 GHz or faster processor with SSE 4.2 or later) with 64-bit support

Windows 10 64-bit (version 20H2) or later; LTSC versions are not supported

8 GB

20 GB

1.5 GB of VRAM

Premiere Pro

Intel® 6th Gen or newer CPU – or AMD Ryzen™ 1000 Series or newer CPU

Windows 10 (64-bit) V20H2 or later

8 GB

8 GB

2 GB of VRAM

Adobe XD

N/A

Windows 10 (64-bit) – Version 1909 (19H2) or later.

4 GB

Using cloud documents

Intel GPU, drivers released in 2014 or later

Acrobat Pro

Intel® or AMD processor; 1.5GHz or faster processor

Windows 11 (64 bit), Windows 10 (64 bit) version 1809 or later

2 GB

4.5 GB

N/A

 

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