Adobe $ADBE is rearchitecting Photoshop and Premiere from the ground up to run on Nvidia $NVDA's RTX Spark superchip, with updates expected to begin rolling out this fall alongside the chip's availability, the company said.
Premiere is getting a new video pipeline built on RTX Spark's unified memory, Blackwell GPU, and TensorRT software, delivering real-time performance for editing and color correction and more efficient rendering of complex timelines, Adobe said. Photoshop's architecture is being rebuilt around GPU-accelerated compositing, enabling live filters, high dynamic range, and new brushing capabilities, all powered by an AI-native pipeline accelerated by TensorRT. Adobe's Substance 3D Painter and Stager will also run natively on RTX Spark for smoother 3D texturing and scene creation workflows. Together, the changes are designed to deliver up to 2x faster AI, editing, coloring, and effects across creative workflows in the two flagship apps, the company said.
Adobe and Nvidia are also extending Premiere and Photoshop to allow users to create, edit, and design with AI agents, giving creators what the companies describe as a collaborative tool to accelerate workflows, Adobe said.
"The best creative work in the world happens in Adobe tools from Adobe Firefly to Photoshop and Premiere, and the expansion of our partnership with Nvidia and Microsoft $MSFT will make those experiences faster and more powerful than ever," Adobe chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen said in a statement. "Together, we are building AI-native creative experiences for RTX Spark that deliver the performance, intelligence and responsiveness people need to create at the pace of their ambition."
The RTX Spark work builds on a broader strategic partnership between Adobe and Nvidia that Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark superchip at GTC Taipei, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU with a custom Arm-based CPU that communicates with it over Nvidia's NVLink C2C interconnect. Nvidia says the superchip can be configured with up to 128GB of unified memory and is capable of delivering 1 petaflop of AI compute. Hardware partners set to ship RTX Spark-based laptops and compact desktops this fall include ASUS, Dell $DELL, HP $HPQ, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI, with Acer and GIGABYTE joining the lineup at a later date.
The Adobe-Nvidia partnership was first announced in March, when the two companies said they would work together to develop next-generation Firefly AI models and agentic workflows, incorporating Nvidia's computing infrastructure, AI libraries, and open models across Adobe's creative and marketing platforms.