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TheHarleyJoker
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Is 1.8 ghz enough for Photoshop? [2019]

  • May 23, 2019
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Hi! The title says it all. Is a minimum of 1.8 ghz enough to successfully run Photoshop?

 

Much appreciate it! // Elias

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melissapiccone
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melissapicconeCommunity Expert
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May 23, 2019

How much RAM do you have? What kind of hard drive - an SSD will make your machine much faster. My daughter runs PS on her old laptop just fine. I'm not sure of the specs, but she has a 8GB RAM and a SSD.

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TheHarleyJoker
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May 23, 2019

I have 16 GB at RAM and SSD. I'm curious if the program will still be able to run with only 1.8 GHz as a base.

melissapiccone
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melissapicconeCommunity Expert
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May 23, 2019

It should. Might be a little slow, but it should run. Your small hard drive could become a problem. You might run out of scratch disk space. You want to keep that tiny hard drive with 30% of free space, which is almost impossible with 256 GB.

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Anonymous
May 23, 2019

Hi

You really need to provide more details about your system specs, 1.8 ghz means nothing, I assume you're talking about processor speed but you don't mention the type of processor you have, also how much RAM do you have installed and what type of GPU, how much free space do you have on your hard drive

You can look at the system requirements here but bear in mind this is the minimum you would need to run PS

Photoshop system requirements

    TheHarleyJoker
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    May 23, 2019

    I have:

    - Intel Core i7 8:e gen. 8565U / 1.8 GHz as a base, with 4.6 at turbo speed.

    - 16 GB of RAM.

    - 256 GB SSD.

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    May 23, 2019

    The CPU will work fine. Most laptop CPUs run at reduced clock rate because adequate cooling isn't possible. If it's slow, it just means you have to wait a few more seconds for this or that filter to render.

    Photoshop isn't very CPU-intensive anyway. The speed of the SSD will have bigger impact - most of what Photoshop does is moving data around. Quite aside from your image files, Photoshop needs a lot of disk space for working temporary data. RAM is never enough to hold that, so a portion of a drive is set aside to hold it as Photoshop runs. This is known as the scratch disk, and it's probably the factor that most directly affects Photoshop performance.

    256GB is on the smallish side. The system drive tends to fill up over time because the user account accumulates settings, caches and so on, things that really never get removed again. So when the drive fills up, you may get messages that "the scratch disk is full", and Photoshop refuses to open. It won't happen right away, but in time it may.

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