Adobe Optimizes Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Substance 3D for NVIDIA's RTX Spark
Adobe is enhancing its partnership with NVIDIA by fine-tuning its software for RTX Spark, NVIDIA's AI-centric Arm chipset designed for laptops. Developed in collaboration with MediaTek, RTX Spark offers high-performance graphics and AI capabilities, akin to mobile RTX 4070 graphics. This development follows a partnership initiated in March, which featured GPU acceleration for Frame.io and ongoing enhancements to Adobe Substance 3D and Firefly Foundry. Adobe plans to optimize Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Substance 3D for RTX Spark, targeting up to 2x faster performance in AI tools and editing tasks. Deepa Subramaniam from Adobe highlighted the importance of performance in creative processes, while Jason Paul from NVIDIA pointed out the advantages of AI agents for creators. Interest in RTX Spark surged after Microsoft's introduction of the Surface Laptop Ultra.
Key facts
- Adobe is optimizing Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Substance 3D for NVIDIA's RTX Spark chipset.
- RTX Spark is a new AI-focused Arm system-on-chip developed by NVIDIA and MediaTek for Windows laptops and compact computers.
- The chipset promises graphics performance on par with mobile RTX 4070 and on-device large language model handling.
- Adobe and NVIDIA's partnership began in March, with GPU acceleration for media ingestion and intelligence in Frame.io.
- Optimized Adobe apps will deliver up to 2x faster performance across AI tools, editing, color grading, and effects processing.
- Deepa Subramaniam is Adobe's vice president of product marketing for creative professionals.
- Jason Paul is NVIDIA's vice president of local AI.
- Microsoft recently launched the Surface Laptop Ultra, a $2,600 MacBook Pro competitor using RTX Spark.
Entities
Artists
- Deepa Subramaniam
- Jason Paul
Institutions
- Adobe
- NVIDIA
- MediaTek
- Microsoft
- Frame.io
- Adobe Substance 3D
- Adobe Firefly Foundry
- PetaPixel