
Very impressed with the high quality and faster performance of Adobe Photoshop for Apple Silicon, the reviewer’s final verdict is that the improvement was unexpectedly good.Īfter the lackluster improvements that we saw when we compared Apple Silicon-optimized Lightroom against the x86 version running via Rosetta 2, we didn’t come into this test with high hopes.

Even a $6,700 fully-loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro with an 8-core Intel Core i9 and discrete GPU takes 1 minute and 52 seconds. The M1 Mac mini running optimized Photoshop does this same task in 1 minute and 14 seconds. The test revealed that,Īn Intel-based 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.3GHz quad-core i7 and 32GB of RAM takes about 2 minutes and 45 seconds to merge a 6-photo panorama shot on the Nikon D850 (full res. The tester used PugetBench Beta v0.8 benchmark which includes Photo Meger test: a data point that is important to photographers and “happens to be the M1’s superpower” on the M1 Mac mini (Adobe Photoshop for Apple Silicon and Rosetta 2), 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Dell XPS 17.

M1 Pro chip: specs and performance comparisonĪdobe Photoshop for Apple Silicon Mac is “really, really fast”
