Photoshop 22.5.1 Performance Issues & GPU Issues on Catalina 10.15.7

I have updated to PS 2020 and the display driver/GPU error is not longer showing. However, it is still as slow. And the issue is actually with all of the programs, AI & ID too, I just happened to be doing a lot of PS work at the time of posting this orginally. Please can anyone throw some light on this? My whole mac goes slow when any one of these programs are open and is fine when they are closed, in the Activity Monitor I can see each program using between 1-3GB of ram when its open - is this excessive? I have upcoming deadlines and I am finding it impossible to work on Adobe CC ...

Because this system falls below the system requirements - unfortunately, you will probably need to get a new mac to use current and future versions of Photoshop.

You can of course, continue to use Photoshop 2020 on your current system which doesn't have higher system requirement for modern GPU support.

Hi,

We're sorry about trouble with Photoshop 22.5.1 on your Mac. The latest version of Photoshop needs 2GB of VRAM or more for the graphics card to be compatible. Please check: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html

For the performance issues with Photoshop, please try optimizing the Preferences of Photoshop using the steps suggested here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

Let us know if it helps!

Regards,

Nikunj

SYSTEM INFO THAT MENTIONED GPU:

======= GPU

Native API stable: True

OpenGL API stable: True

OpenCL API stable: True

GPUDeny:               0

GPUForce:              0

useGPU:                0

useOpenCL:             0

isGPUCapable:          0

GPUName:               NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M

GPUVendor:             NVIDIA

IsNativeGPUCapable:    1

IsOpenGLGPUCapable:    1

IsOpenCLGPUCapable:    0

HasSufficientRAM:      0

  GPU accessible RAM:                 1,073 MB

  Required GPU accessible RAM:        1,500 MB

UseGraphicsProcessorChecked:   1

UseOpenCLChecked:              1

Display: 1

  Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1440, right=2560

  Main Display

------- Sniffer output

    # devices:                    1

    Device 0

      Name:                         NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M

      Preferred:                    TRUE

      Power Envelope:               DISCRETE

      Attachment:                   EMBEDDED

      # attached displays:          1

        69992768

      GPU accessible RAM:                1,073 MB

      VRAM:                              1,073 MB

      Dedicated System RAM:                  0 MB

      Shared System RAM:                     0 MB

      API version:                  1.0 (1.0)

      Device version:               1.0 (1.0)

      Vendor name:                  NVIDIA

      Driver:                       UNKNOWN

      Driver date:                  UNKNOWN

      Driver age:                   UNKNOWN

      Driver version:               UNKNOWN

  End platform native

  {7676 ms}

    # devices:                    1

    Device 0

      Name:                         NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M OpenGL Engine

      Preferred:                    TRUE

      Power Envelope:               DISCRETE

      Attachment:                   UNKNOWN

      # attached displays:          1

        69992768

      GPU accessible RAM:                1,024 MB

      VRAM:                              1,024 MB

      Dedicated System RAM:                  0 MB

      Shared System RAM:                     0 MB

      API version:                  2.1 (2.1 NVIDIA-14.0.32 355.11.11.10.10.143)

      Device version:               2.1 (2.1 NVIDIA-14.0.32 355.11.11.10.10.143)

      Vendor name:                  NVIDIA

      Driver:                       UNKNOWN

      Driver date:                  UNKNOWN

      Driver age:                   UNKNOWN

      Driver version:               UNKNOWN

      GLSL version:                 1.20 (1.20)

      CGL ID:                       16918311

      Display mask:                 255

  End platform OpenGL

  {8180 ms}

  {8180 ms}

  Start platform OpenCL

    # displays:                   0

    # devices:                    1

    Device 0

      Name:                         GeForce GT 755M

      Preferred:                    TRUE

      Power Envelope:               DISCRETE

      Attachment:                   UNKNOWN

      # attached displays:          0

      GPU accessible RAM:                1,073 MB

      VRAM:                              1,073 MB

      Dedicated System RAM:                  0 MB

      Shared System RAM:                     0 MB

      API version:                  1.2 (OpenCL 1.2 (Aug 11 2021 00:46:43))

      Device version:               1.2 (OpenCL 1.2 )

      Vendor name:                  NVIDIA

      Driver:                       UNKNOWN

      Driver date:                  UNKNOWN

      Driver age:                   UNKNOWN

      Driver version:               UNKNOWN

      Bandwidth:                    16 GB / s

      Compute score:                0

      Device name string:           GeForce GT 755M

      Device vendor string:         NVIDIA      

      Platform name string:         Apple       

      Platform vendor string:       Apple       

  End platform OpenCL

  {8649 ms}

  Exit code kExitNormal

  End sniffer 2021-10-05 10:03:18

[kStatusNormal, kExitNormal]

[8652 ms]

  Finish RunAllAPIs

[15481 ms]

  Start GetSnifferResult

[15481 ms]

  Finish GetSnifferResult

------- Sniffer output

======= GPU

License Type: Subscription

GUIDBucket:Composite Core (enable_composite_core): onComposite Core GPU (comp_core_gpu): offComposite Core Threads (comp_core_threads): offComposite Core UI (comp_core_ui): offDocument Graph (enable_doc_graph): off

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/

Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled

Scratch volume(s):

  Startup, 931.3G, 31.1G free

Required Plugins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Adobe Photoshop 2021.app/Contents/PlugIns/Required/

Primary Plugins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Plug-ins/