Adobe Camera Raw system requirements (2021)
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Camera Raw is a plugin which can hep you import and enhance raw images. It can be used with several Adobe softwares including Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, After Effects, Bridge.
Below are Adobe Camera Raw system requirements for Windows and macOS in 2021 (Camera Raw 13.1 or newer versions).
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Windows PC
Minimum Requirements
In order to install and use Camera Raw, you laptop or desktop have to meet the following requirements:
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit version 1809 or newer |
| CPU | Intel Core 2-Duo 2GHz or equivalent |
| Memory | 4 GB of RAM |
| Graphics | 2 GB VRAM |
| DirectX | 12 |
| Free storage | 2 GB |
| Screen resolution | 1024 x 768 |
Recommended Specs
If you want to run Camera Raw smoothy with a nice experience, your system specs need to be equal or higher than the following:
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit version 1809 or newer |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 3GHz or better |
| Memory | 16 GB of RAM |
| Graphics | 4 GB of VRAM |
| DirectX | 12 |
| Free storage | 3 GB of SSD |
| Screen resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
Mac
Camera Raw now can work well with both Intel processor and Apple M1 processor.
Minimum Requirements
| OS | macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or later |
| CPU | Intel Core 2-Duo Apple M1 Chip |
| Memory | 4 GB of RAM |
| Graphics | 2 GB VRAM |
| Free storage | 2 GB |
| Screen resolution | 1024 x 768 |
Recommended Specs
| OS | macOS 10.15 (Catalina) macOS 11 (Big Sur) |
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 3.0GHz Apple M1 Chip |
| Memory | 16 GB of RAM |
| Graphics | 4 GB VRAM |
| Free storage | 3 GB of SSD |
| Screen resolution | 1920 x 1080 |
Note: Camera Raw currently doesn’t take advantage of more than one graphics processor. Using multiple GPUs does not enhance performance.
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