8 go Ram is enough for photoshop 2024 ?

[aldo3832995227mj]

Hi everyone, do you think 8go RAM is enough to run photoshop 2024 on a Mac Air M2 ? Thank's

[Ged_Traynor]

@aldo3832995227mj not really, the recommended is 16 GB, you might get by with 8 GB for small projects.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/system-requirements.html

[D Fosse]

It is absolutely not enough with an Apple silicon machine (or any machine with an integrated GPU).

The problem is that the GPU uses shared system memory. That's what "unified memory" means behind the marketing language.

And the GPU can use a lot! 8 - 16 GB is not uncommon, just for the GPU.

With Apple silicon, 16 GB is absolutely bare minimum, but 32 should be considered baseline.

[aldo3832995227mj]

thank's, ill follow your advice

[Bojan Živković]

No, it's not sufficient. Perhaps adequate for basic operations, but insufficient for more demanding tasks. On Windows, the operating system alone will occupy approximately 5GB. It is important to consider that the operating system needs to be loaded into RAM as a foundation for all other processes.