Graphic card , help please

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Hello Community . I have just started to work with Photoshop and InDesign. I work with a stationary PC and Nvidia card  Quadro 2000 , 8 MB RAM and it works perfect. Yesterday a bought a Lenovo laptop for home use . It is with 16 MB Ram and NVIDIA geforce 940 MX graphic card. My question is . do you think the graphic card will work with the downloaded programmes PS and In ?? . Thank you .

Ged_Traynor · Accepted Answer

@lisen4059391 the NVIDIA geforce 940 MX feature level is only 11.0, Photoshop requires a GPU with a feature level of 12.0 and above, so the GPU is not compatiable with the most recent versions of Photoshop

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

InDesign should be OK

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/system-requirements-indesign-server.html

D Fosse · Answer

If you bought it yesterday you should be able to return it.

What you want for GPU these days is something like a Nvidia RTX 3060 or the newer 4060, with some leeway to higher or lower models. The -50 models should still work well; the -70 models and up will be faster in some regards but not strictly necessary. The sweet spot seems to be -60.

Note that laptops are generally a risky proposition these days, because if they have a capable GPU they will also have a secondary integrated GPU, presumably to save battery life. However, that can be a big problem for advanced applications like Photoshop, because the dual GPUs tend to conflict.

So be prepared that you may need to disable the integrated GPU completely. See section 6 & 7 here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html

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