Mac compatible system for newer versions of PS.

[Adri BF Brandao]

I am using the system below, it wont run newer versions of PS and Denoise AI wont work either. System update? Or new Mac?

[jane-e]

@Adri BF Brandao 

See the recommended (not minimum) system requirements and be sure to meet or exceed them:

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

Does your graphics card on your 2014 MacBook Pro support Metal?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205073

Jane

[gener7]

These are the system requirements for the latest stable release of Photoshop:

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

you would not be able to install if you did not meet them. However 8 GB is minimum, 16 GB is  recommended memory and I think you are looking at a hardware upgrade. You can continue to run earlier versions of Photoshop.

Help menu > GPU Compatibility can let you know at a glance whether your Graphics card meets standards. That's another component that cannot be upgraded, you have to get a better system if you want to run the latest versions effectively.

[Jeff Arola]

What version of photoshop are you running now?

What happens when you install the newest 24.7 version?

The camera raw Denoise AI can be really slow on systems with less resources.

For example, a nef from a Nikon D7200 takes in some cases 30 min or more on my 2012 MacBook Pro with similar specs to your 2014 MacBook Pro except it has 16 gb ram and runs macOS Monterey 12.6.8 with photoshop 24.7 and camera raw 15.5.1.

Then on a 2022 Mac Studio with an M1 Proceesor the same nefs just take a matter of a few miniutes at most.

[Conrad_C]

I am using the system below, it wont run newer versions of PS and Denoise AI wont work either. System update? Or new Mac?

By @Adri BF Brandao

The current version of Photoshop should be able to run on macOS 11 with 8 GB of memory and 1.5GB of graphics memory, according to the Photoshop system requirements. So if the Creative Cloud desktop app won’t let you install Photoshop on that Mac, it must be because of something else…does it give you a specific error message?

However, based on what’s been happening every year, this fall your Mac will lose software support from both Apple and Adobe. Both companies only support the last three versions of macOS. Every year both companies release major new versions and so the support ratchets up one version. So in a couple of months, the versions of macOS supported by Apple and Adobe will be macOS 14, 13, and 12, meaning macOS 11 will no longer be supported. And macOS 11 is the last version that a 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro can install. So for that Mac to run the latest software, the road is ending after almost 10 years, but that’s a pretty good run.

Just for context:

• Your Intel Core i5 has only two CPU cores; the cheapest Macs today have eight, and the upper level Macs have many more than that. 
• Your Mac is hard-limited to 1.5GB graphics memory which is probably further constrained by only having 8GB total system memory (because graphics memory comes out of available system memory, and these days, 8GB is not a lot to start with). In a current Mac, there is no hard limit to how much memory graphics can share with system memory, so it is much more flexible, especially for Macs with more than 16 GB unified memory. 

The graphics hardware in current Apple Silicon Macs runs AI features many times faster than on an Intel Mac released 9 years ago. It can be the difference between taking 30 minutes and taking 1 minute or less.

[Adri BF Brandao]

Thanks