MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.5 DRIVERS
Drivers are bundled with MacOS so my driver comments do not apply to Mac. Photoshop will run without a GPU, however many features will be slower, and a few advanced features will be unavailable. Additionally, the GPU is an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M which dates from 2013 – hence outside our support dates. To go back to the original question, the GPU has less than the required amount of VRAM, hence it will not be used. The dialog does not change the usage of the GPU compared to the previous release – it just lets you know that we are not using the GPU. With the most recent release, we added the GPU compatibility dialog to inform users when we were disabling their GPU. You could go into the preferences and see that the GPU was turned off, or dig through the arcane details of System Info, but the information was not available to users in a convenient form. This happened without specifically informing the user that it had been disabled. About a year ago we saw an increase in the number of problems on GPUs which did not meet our minimum requirements – as mentioned above, we are making more and more use of the GPU, that means we rely on having a compatible GPU.Ībout six months ago we shipped a version of Photoshop that checked for GPU compatibility at startup, and disabled the GPU if it did not meet our minimum requirements. Our minimum requirements have not changed in a couple of years, however, two years ago we did not explicitly confirm that the GPU met our minimum requirements – we just attempted to use it anyway. It’s not an exact match, but any GPU that is 7 years old is usually low performance and does not run Photoshop well. Roughly speaking, the phrases “DirectX 12 support“ and “Metal Support” mean “less than 7 years old”. (the page is slightly out of date – it lists 2GB as the required VRAM, in fact we only require 1.5GB)
Photoshop’s minimum GPU requirements are listed here: There is a lot to say about this topic – I will try and lay everything out in a straightforward manner.
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