Adobe support only can parrot what is on the website for minimum requirements. I'm more interested in maximum. Can Illustrator take advantage of a M3 Ultra chip? It seems rather lame. I've got a client with very challenging label designs with overprint, lots of layers and very complicated designs. A M2 Max based Mac was marginally faster than a 2020 iMac 27"
In Geekbench 6 scores it's maybe 10% faster than a M4 Max. I would imagine the lazy programmers at Adobe only use single core and not multi-threaded designs. It certainly seems that way. I read recent release notes that the latest Illustrator was up to 10 times faster. Anybody have some experience in performance usage notes? And yes GPU function is enabled. These Macs have 32 GB RAM and no problems with memory pressure as checked with either Activity Monitor or Stats to maintain a review in the menu bar. Files are on SSDs attached to another M1 Max based file server and use 10 Gbps network. It can only be improved with a Thunderbolt 3 daisy chain to the server.
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