My laptop gets very heated up whenever I'm using Photoshop, even when I do basic tasks like resizing canvas to 4k my laptop just crashes for a few minutes. I'm using a genuine Photoshop Enterprise License and my laptop specs are:
The first thing I would do is grab a vacuum cleaner to remove as much dust as possible from the air vents and inlets. Adequate cooling is not really possible in a laptop doing heavy work. It's just a lot of components crammed into an impossibly tight space. For this reason, components are usually throttled down considerably to avoid excessive heat buildup.
While Photoshop doesn't need an extremely powerful GPU, it does call on some very advanced functions. An integrated GPU is really underpowered for newer Photoshop versions. It will have to work pretty hard.
It could also be a problem in your GPU driver, so try to update and see if that helps. But I think accumulated dust is a more urgent problem.
@D Fosse and @Lumigraphics are correct. A good cleaning will help along with checking for driver updates. If you can, you should check to see if you can add another 8 gb stick of ram or replace with a 16gb stick. Those laptops are usually upgrade friendly.
I run phohtohsop on a samsung latop with built in grpahic and for light editing it does great but it does hit it's limits.
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