Integrated graphics vs dedicated graphics card

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You can also grab one of the Best Laptop for Photoshop under 500 dollars that comes with 8 GB/16 GB/32 GB RAM with an awesome Graphics card namely AMD Radeon Vega 6/Intel Iris Xe Graphics/Intel UHD Graphics/Integrated AMD Radeon R5/Intel Iris Graphics 6100 as per your requirement.

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I would never get an integrated graphics card! I had one once, and the issue was that the computer company had to supply an update to the drivers, even though the card was some other manufacturer. So what happened was that the manufacturer updated drivers, but the computer company never did. Huge mistake!

My experience says that you can start with Ryzen 5 5600G for example, without dedicated GPU. I do have RTX 2060 but it does not make any noticable difference (at the moment) so I took it away just to check one more time. So far I can say no noticable difference when using Neural Filters or any other filter in Photoshop.

Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom also works fine.

My suggestion is to start with Ryzen 5 5600G / 7 5700G (or Intel i5 12600 for example) or newest models 5 7600X / 7 7700X (later can be expensive because DDR5, new AM5 motherboards...) if you are buying Desktop. If you are looking at Laptop then look for one with dedicated GPU. Note: 5 5600G is PCIe 3 while 7 5700G PCIe 4 which promises faster communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

When it comes to RAM 32GB - Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600MHz C18 works just fine, you can go with 2 x8GB but keep in mind that OS Win 11 will ocupy 4-5GB I believe without investigation. If you have two open files in Photoshop with lots of layers, Smart Object layers... then you will fill RAM space quickly. I cought myself having filled 25+GB of RAM without using any fancy thing. It also fills RAM when you run multiple apps like, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign at the same time.

WD Blue SN 570 - 500GB seems enough for me. I do have one more SSD which serves as scratch disc. From 0 (power off) to internet hero in Google Chrome adress bar it goes for 25 seconds or less.

It would always be better to use a dedicated GPU instead of an integrated one if you want to use these power-hungry apps. Here is a quick comparison between dedicated & integrated GPU: https://www.techyray.com/integrated-vs-dedicated-gpu/ 

I think that should be fine, to begin with at least. I think most of the GPU-related features in Photoshop will still work. If you need to cut initial cost this is a good place to do it, since it's so easily upgradeable later if needed.

Spend the money on more RAM, which is good for Photoshop, and a faster CPU, which is good for Lightroom. You should also make sure you have a decent capacity SSD for system drive - 500GB and up. A lot of the applications' working files (caches and so on) sit under your user account on the system drive, so everything will benefit from that.

EDIT: cross-post, and my, cross-opinions there as well

You need to power integrated graphics somehow and the only alternative to the missing GPU is the computers CPU. Integrated graphics will do a reasonable job for web graphics, but start working with anything of multi-megabyte size and you'll quickly regret your choice. Photoshop uses GPU acceleration far more than you might think as it permits multiple threads of code to execute in parallel and that trend is bound to continue into the future. For example all the new blur functions use GPU acceleration as does Select and Mask. Given that graphics cards are not very expensive these days I would suggest going with a dedicated hardware solution.