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October 17, 2025
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Illustrator 2025 - Hot to select dedicated Graphics Card as primary Graphics Processing Unit.

Hello.

Is there any way to precisely select and confirm to Illustrator 2025 (currently running on version 29.8.2.) which GPU to pick to process the graphics information?

I am running a quite performant laptop with a dedicated NVIDIA RTX Ada GPU with 16GB as well as an onboard graphics unit (with has way less power) but can't tell Illustrator to only use powerful GPU.

In Photoshop I can directly pick and assign the GPU to be used, for InDesign and Illstrator I can't find that option via the Menu Preferences > Performance. There, in the "GPU-Details" section it shows all 3 GPU-components my laptop has (see attached pic).

How do I manage to only utilize the powerful NVIDIA RTX GPU?

Thanks in advance,



Anubhav M
Anubhav MCorrect answer
Community Manager
October 17, 2025

Hello @Michael30059174c4dn,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind performing a clean reinstallation of the GPU(s) drivers (Intel / NVIDIA / AMD) and setting the Graphics Preference to High-Performance for Illustrator (https://adobe.ly/47e4PgK) and checking if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

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Anubhav M
Community Manager
Anubhav MCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
Community Manager
October 17, 2025

Hello @Michael30059174c4dn,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind performing a clean reinstallation of the GPU(s) drivers (Intel / NVIDIA / AMD) and setting the Graphics Preference to High-Performance for Illustrator (https://adobe.ly/47e4PgK) and checking if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

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