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Adobe says Apple M1 Macs offer over 80 percent better performance in Creative Cloud apps

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2021-06-08 23:30:04

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(Pocket-lint) - Adobe has announced updates to Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom Classic - all are now native for Apple Silicon Macs running Apple’s M1 processor. Photoshop is already native.

Lightroom has supported M1-based Macs natively since December, while rival Serif's Affinity apps were updated in November.

Adobe has also released some pretty incendiary data that shows the performance of Creative Cloud apps is significantly better on the M1 chip - an average 83 performance uplift rising to a whopping 88 percent in Photoshop.

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Now, there is a caveat (of course) and that is that it doesn't reflect the highest spec of Intel processor available on a Mac - you can get the iMac with Core i9 for example and of course the Mac Pro uses Intel Xeon workstation chips.