What intel integrated graphics works with photoshop 2020?

[CGItutorials]

Hello, I am an inner city School and College teacher and am trying to support students working from home during covid lockdown . More than half of my students do not have a computer at home and I am trying to reccomend the cheapest laptops to them to run PS

.

I cannot for the life of me find a specific list of supported integrated graphics for photoshop 2020.
It seems that Adobe do not make older versions of photoshop available.

I have tried photoshop 2020 on a £80 intel i3 2nd gen laptop with 8GB RAM (HD 2000 graphics) and the whole interface lagged like crazy even after fiddling with graphics settings. Photopea worked perfectly fine on it even with complex PSD files and editing 4k images. An older cs6 version that I had hanging around also worked perfectly fine on it with the same complex files. 

Is there a comprehensive list of what integrated intel HD graphics will run PS2020? Can anyone confirm what the oldest (and therefore cheapest) i-series processor generation that can run photoshop?

I always reccomend the old dell desktops with gt710s /730s as they run photoshop fine for what we need and cost less than £150, screen included. The problem is that the parents say that they don't have desks or table space to set the PC's up  - students are studing sitting in their beds.

P.s, I am not looking for it to run well - I am just looking for it to be able to open and not have the crippling interface lag and screen tearing that is present on unsupported graphics. Students will be doing simple 1080p photomanipluations , photo retouching and pixel art - no 3d or 4k digital paintings!

Thank you in advance! You will be helping a lot of familes out here!

[davescm]

The official minimum specs require a GPU with 2GB dedicated VRAM (i.e. not integrated graphics) and Directx12 and a 1280 x 800 screen

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

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html

That said, my daughter uses Photoshop for basic painting and for basic adjustments, such as curves, cloning, spot healing brush and cropping, on a licence supplied by her college. She runs it on a basic Toshiba laptop with a 1366 x 768 screen and using Intel HD interated graphics with Direct X 12. It will not do oil paint or liquify or 3D but it will manage the basics. Plugging into a spare monitor with 1920 x 1080 pixels definitely helps.

Dave

[CGItutorials]

Thank you for your quick reply. I am now guessing that I will need to reccomend laptops with processors that run directx 12 on their integrated graphics as a minimum. Some googling has shown me that the 5th gen i-series processors have integrated graphics that will run that but that 4th Gen i-series processors are no longer supported due to a security issue.

[davescm]

I wouldn't recommend integrated graphics at all. Those minimum specs are there for a reason.  But as I said above sometimes it is possible to get some limited functionality running, depending on the hardware combination.

Dave

[Chuck Uebele]

I can understand wanting the cheapest laptop that will run PS, but I agree with Dave. Integrated graphics cards have so many problems. I would never get an Intel card to run PS. I've been through that. Even if you get one that works, problems creep in, and the card isn't detected. For me, it seemed to be worse with the battery level.

[D Fosse]

+1.

This is professional level software that makes no excuses. It will not run on any old machine. It requires a minimum of resources to run decently, and high specs to run well.