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

[Michael30059174c4dn]

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 · Accepted solution]

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