Hello,
I have been testing CorelDraw 2020 on my 2019 MacBook Pro 16" and noticed the performance is just abysmal compared to Illustrator/Photoshop. The option of using GPU acceleration is either broken or for some reason uses the integrated gpu. If that's the case then this is just ridiculous - basically this makes the software unusable for any serious work!
While testing I found that if I turn off the auto switching of GPU in my macOS preferences and basically force my machine to always use the Radeon Pro then there is a significant performance boost and both Draw and Photo Paint start to work as expected. My conclusion is that the option inside Draw/PhotoPaint to use GPU is either broken or not using the correct GPU at hand.
Considering this finding I want to know if there is any plan this issue to be addressed within version 2020 or not? If there is no such plan then I might start looking elsewhere for Adobe alternative.
Thanks!
Does your MacBookmuse AMD technology?
Yes sure, Apple uses AMD in all their laptops and desktops for discrete graphics.
Like I already mentioned - if I turn off the automatic switching of GPU and force MacOS to only use the AMD then both Draw and Photo Paint are super fast. This can only mean the use GPU option inside The Corel apps is not working or falsely is using the integrated Intel GPU.
Can you disable the integrated Intel on your mainboard?
Yes I can and that’s exactly my point - if I disable it and force the OS to use the AMD GPU then Corel apps fly.
But by doing this it only proves that Corel apps’ option to use GPU is not working.
i don’t want to force my system to always use the AMD GPU because it’s not meant this way and my battery will drain quick, more heat etc.
Also this means every time I open Corel I will also have to go manually and disable the integrated GPU.
bottom line is this is a Corel problem/bug and it should be fixed rather than forcing people to do workarounds.
I do not disagree with you, I only ask because we saw this issue in the X7 or X8 version on PC systems with on board and AMD installed video cards. Clearly Corel does not care about this issue as it's been known for several versions.
I'm from a different place, I constantly have CorelDRAW files that are hundreds of megabytes and even up to 1.8 gigabytes in memory. I run these on Intel PC desktops that cost well under $2,000 US so laptops and Mac systems of any kind are non starters for me.