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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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