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Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 17, 2020

P: Not detecting older GPU's

  • June 17, 2020
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I have a AMD HD8490 GPU and installed Photoshop version 21.2 and the GPU is not been detected, I'm not alone as I've come across other people with the same issue on the Photoshop community forum.
Reverting back to 21.1.3 fixes the issue
Why does Adobe release updates to fix bugs and then break something else with the same update.

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Roland_Rick
Known Participant
June 17, 2020
On my Macs, the GPUs are perfectly detected, but not used at all. Zero. You can easily can track this yourself on "Activity Monitor" (or the Windows equivalent). That's a general issue with Adobe software on OSX and/or macOS. And independent if I try on a 2015 iMac5K or a recent beefy equipped MBP16, the result is the same: Adobe Software does not involve GPU on Mac in graphics processing - what is btw totally weird, the Mac is the graphics computer. Not the Windows PC. But somehow Adobe managed it to pervert this. Plase see attached screen shot. From over 2 hrs CPU runtime, developing raw files, exporting to jpg (88 images, that took 25 minutes), only 52 seconds the GPU was utilised. For what ever, but not that 25 minutes it took to export that 88 NEFs to JPG (46 megapixels from a Z7 to 2048 pixels long edge). Click on the image to enlarge:



Hint: in Activity Monitor you may press Cmd+4 for GPU and Cmd+3 for CPU history, the GPU usage below is caused by some other software, not LrC nor Ps: