While the exact amount of RAM you need is going to depend on the size and number of images you will be working with, we generally recommend a minimum of 16GB for all our systems. For most users, 32GB of RAM should be enough for the majority of workflows.
How much ram do I need to use lightroom?
Coming to you from Signature Edits, this great video compares the speed of Lightroom when using 8 GB of RAM versus 32 GB of RAM. At the bare minimum, Lightroom requires 4 GB of RAM to run, but of course, this may not be enough in practical terms when it comes to day-to-day needs.
For most photographers 16GB of memory will allow Lightroom Classic CC to run really well, though photographers doing a lot of work using both Lightroom and Photoshop at the same time you will benefit from having 32GB of memory.
The sweet spot in price to performance to provide you enough memory to do nearly everything in Lightroom and still have room to run web browsers and Photoshop at the same time is 16GB of memory. There are even some use cases where photographers may need more than 16GB of memory, like 32GB or even in extreme cases 64GB.
Excess RAM won’t help anything once you have enough for the applications you’re running. After explaining this, Ryan shifts his focus to photo editing more generally and Adobe Lightroom in particular. How much RAM do you need to run Adobe Lightroom at peak performance, and where is the point of diminishing returns?
How much RAM do you need for technology preview?
Technology Previews (features that may not be completely production-ready yet but available to try out) are allowed on devices having between 4 GB and 6 GB RAM, but you could experience an occasional crash under memory pressure. On devices with less than 4 GB RAM, these features are unavailable.
What are the system requirements for Lightroom Classic?
16 GB or more. Hard disk space . 2 GB of available hard-disk space; additional space is required for installation. Lightroom Classic will not install on case-sensitive file systems or removable flash storage devices., and monitor resolution.
How much memory do photographers need?
There are even some use cases where photographers may need more than 16GB of memory, like 32GB or even in extreme cases 64GB. Again, read the article for more information but having high megapixel (36+) and doing a lot of round tripping between Lightroom and Photoshop likely means you will need more than 16GB of memory.
Why does Lightroom take so long to load?
The more data you’re working with, the more RAM you need. If you don’t have enough RAM, some of the data has to be written to the hard drive, which is much slower. Like most image-editing programs, Lightroom works with large amounts of data, so it needs more RAM than, for example, a word processor.