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Adobe puts the threshold at 8GB of dedicated graphics memory for full acceleration and the AI-assisted features, and describes anything under 4GB as too little for them to be usable. In practice that is the difference between a denoise pass on a 45-megapixel frame finishing in around fifteen seconds and one that grinds or declines to start. Above that threshold, additional graphics performance changes export times far less than most buyers expect.
System memory works the same stepped way. 16GB is workable, 32GB is where most photographers stop noticing the machine at all, and 64GB earns its place if you stack focus brackets, assemble panoramas or keep a large layered composite open beside a browser and a catalogue. Storage follows: the catalogue and its preview cache belong on NVMe, while the library itself can happily live somewhere slower and larger.