Computer system or Workstation for Photoshop

[pslane1]

Could you please tell me some good computer systems or graphics workstations that are the most compatible with Photoshop and Illustrator?  Starting at the lowest price? 

I am being told that my system can't handle Photoshop.   Thank you.

[Rob_Cullen]

I suggest you start here- ! Photoshop system requirements 

And even improve on the "Recommended" requirements if you can (like 64GB memory, 8GB GPU)

"Price" - is hard to suggest depending on Country location.

[pslane1]

Thank you for the link.  I needed to make a copy of that to discuss with my computer tech.  He understands it, I don't.  But this is a good start to finding out if the problems I am having are related to an incompatible computer system.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Photoshop does not multi-thread most/all of its functions, so CPU clock speed is king.  I'd want 32Gb RAM (I have had 64Gb RAM in my current and previous system, and PS never seemed to make full use of it).  A very expensive GPU is not going to make a huge difference, but I'd at least go with a RTX4070 video card.  NVMe drives are crazy fast nowadays, which is good if you work with large projects and PS creates large temp files on your scratch drive.

You can a decent idea of what works from the Puget Systems app specific tests.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/all-articles/?filter=photoshop 

[Bojan Živković]

When pairing CPU and GPU you can start with bottleneck calculatoir, for example https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/

Pairing i3 10300, or i3 12100 or Ryzen 3 4500 with RTX 4070, 4080 or 4090 is probably waste of money.