Integrated ARC Graphics Performance in Lightroom/Lightroom Classic

[Rollergold4]

Has anyone with a laptop running the new Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or 9 185H chips checked how lightroom performs on these new chips and can their integrated ARC graphics handle any GPU acceleration tasks in LR? Or it that something I still need a dedicated GPU for?

Been using lightroom on iPad OS and Android and while it works, the workflow is kind of clunky, slow and lacks features that the desktop lightroom programs have (like the AI Denoise feature) and lightroom moible doesn't seem to reconizse the image stacks I made on the desktop versions.

So I've been considering getting a laptop for photo editing (among other things) and would like to know if the if those new Core Ultra chips and their Integrated ARC Graphics are a good fit and and handle at least some of the GPU accerated tasks that would normually be offloaded to a battery sucking GPU.

[D Fosse]

It looks very promising, but I'd give it a couple of months to see how it plays out, and to let them iron out the inevitable initial bugs. Jumping on a brand new platform is always risky.

More specifically, a GPU using shared system memory will require a lot more RAM than you would normally need, probably around double.

[Rollergold4]

Hey D Fosse:

I agree, I won't be buying for a little while longer which also is why I'm asking around to see if anyone who does have a laptop with these core ultra chips to see how they perform and if the intergrated ARC graphics on those chips can be selected for GPU tasks like processing and exporting and if so hows the performence. If its not very good I'm always open to a machine with a dedicated GPU.

[bell.me]

I'm currently running the Core Ultra 7 155H in my Dell Inspiron Plus 14" and so far have had nothing but problems with it. Crashing when using the generative tools, crashing when exporting, crashing when denoising, and sometimes just crashing when loading in images. At the moment, with these new chips, Lightroom is completely useless.

[ro_wyck]

I'm running the Core Ultra 9 185H in an Asus Zephyrus G16. The app is slow and messy. Didn't encounter any crashes but it runs painfully slow. At the moment my old laptop (I7-9750H) is way faster.

[Nancy29719648wqua]

Hey! Have you found any resolutions? I just bought this laptop and my first time editing was so disappointing. Laggy, freezing, crashing. CPU ran very hot. I have g helper and have tried various configurations but could be missing the mark. 

[khmajgaard]

I've had my lenovo laptop running the ultra 9 185H with 32 gb of RAM since April. And i am now seriously considering shifting to a mac. It doesn't crash, but is annoyingly slow for something said to be good at running these adobe programmes with their new AI features. And since i don't game or do any heavy video work i'd prefer to be able to not have to have a computer that runs a dedicated GPU as that will easily get me up there in the somewhat same price:perfomance range.
And now with the benchmark reviews coming out on the m4 chips, I am really considering taking the leap.