ASUS Laptop NVDIA 4050 GPU and Photoshop

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July 21, 2025
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I wonder if anyone has information on the topic.

I have an ASUS with a NVDIA 4050 GPU that I purchased for Photoshop and lightroom processing of graphic design and photographs. Lightroom seems to be accessing the GPU sucessfully and it really spools up and works on photographs and other.

Photoshop however is an issue with the beta and 26. X version but it has been like this for a long time now. The GPU just spikes and then goes down to no activity while the processing continues for several minutes instead of seconds. The main system is an i7 with about 48 GB memory two ultrafast solid state drives 1 TB and 2 TB and everything on the latest drivers and SW.

I have configured one way and another through as many processes in Photoshop and Windows and NVdia and still no change.

My only option is to remove photoshop and start clean but I dont really want to do that as it may not help anyway

I need the GPU to work as processing isreally slow on my larger projects

Advice welcome I need help

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AxelMatt

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I wonder if anyone has information on the topic.

I have an ASUS with a NVDIA 4050 GPU ...

By @stuartjonathangray

Do you have installed the latest version of the graphic device driver? Make also sure that you've installed the Studio version of the driver: DON'T USE the Game Ready Version.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/251227/

Make also sure that your whole system is up-to-date. Do you have installed all recent updates and patches for the operating system and the device drivers.

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 8 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI

stuartjonathangrayAuthor

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All up to date as in every day and week and reloads etc I do not think some of the filters use the GPU I have the Studio version loaded. So what I do is run Task and performance performance to check for activities and for jpg artifact removal no action photo restoration seems to use GPU liquify uses it but many of the other processes no. Camera Raw on CR2 raw images does use it

davescm

Community Expert

Laptops often have two GPUs, a dedicated GPU such as your 4050 and an integrated GPU built into the CPU processsor. You need to ensure that Photoshop is using the dedicated unit. See sections 6 & 7 in this help page.
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html

Dave

stuartjonathangrayAuthor

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Hi Dave I have disabled the other one in the Intel Iris XE so I dont get it it has to be using the GPU but it does not seem to be doing so or at least not utelising it fully

stuartjonathangrayAuthor

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Plus I have tried a multitude of configurations from various recomendations and still no luck. Lightroom utelises it fully

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