GPU-Acceleration on Windows
It would be brilliant to have this as an option especially since more and more people are using high DPI/4K displays and the CPU is not capable of allowing for smooth zooming/scrolling/panning in most cases. It's working perfectly fine with Photoshop and rather good with Illustrator so I can't see why this shouldn't be possible with InDesign as well.
On my 4K Dell XPS 15 it's quite a pain to scroll through the document or zoom in and out, laggy as hell although this is a very poweful machine!

GPU Acceleration on Windows is available with the latest InDesign 2025(v20.4.0.052). Please update to the latest InDesign via the CCD app to get this feature.
The minimum system requirements for using GPU Acceleration on
- Windows are: Monitor with a display resolution greater than 2K
- GPU card with at least 1GB vRAM.
Note on GPU Acceleration: High-resolution monitors are becoming the standard. With the high monitor resolutions, it is getting difficult for the CPU to handle the rendering. This is where the GPU comes into play. Rendering on high-density displays is best handled by the GPU. GPU acceleration makes the rendering of the documents faster while zooming, scrolling, and panning. The enhanced performance from using the GPU in InDesign powers features like Animated Zoom, which make zoom actions smooth and animated.
Based on our internal tests, we found that GPU acceleration provides better performance when the monitor's display resolution is greater than 2K and the GPU has at least 1GB vRAM. Hence, these have been set as the minimum system requirements.
You can read more about the GPU feature here:
- https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/system-requirements.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/optimize-indesign-performance.html
For any issue related to GPU Acceleration on Windows, please provide below information:
- Display adapters in Device Manager (Ensure that the display cable is connected to the GPU port on machines with dual display ports for proper rendering)
- Display settings (To access the GPU feature on Windows, the monitor should have a resolution above 2K.)
- Share the IDSniffer file available at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version 20.0\en_US\Caches\GPULog\IDSniffer
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Adobe InDesign team
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DHW commented
Why is GPU Support for Windows/Indesign not already running yet?
Other vendors have still good and fast running...
Plaes give soon a feedback when we can start with GPU Power in Indesign on Windows Systems...
Otherwise the way leads to other products, which support GPU (for ex. NVidia Quad) under Windows 10...
It is no option for us to use old MACs ;-) -
Nick commented
I've just compared the same file on a 2012 Mac mini with Win 10 9900k, 64Gb RAM, GTX2060 machine and the Mac mini is far better performance. Adobe this is just not good enough.
Affinity publisher is fantastic though... Maybe now is the time to move the studio over to Affinity? It would perform better and save a fortune.
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Etienne Denoly commented
Adobe take care of this!! This is ridiculous and very annoying. I can't believe this has not been taken care of already.
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Francesco Bacchini commented
It's a shame. InDesign is not enabling my GPU and I'm using a 4K DELL XPS 7590. I switched to Windows (being a Mac user for almost 15 users) only for professional programs... and this is the result of the switch.
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Anonymous commented
Don't bother posting here. they don't care. As long as they're making money on newbie-interfaces and Spark why would they waste money on modernizing the pig?
Look at the comments here. You guys are turning into a punchline. Way to Corel!
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FF O commented
Please enable the graphics card function in indesign for windows. I have high performance equipment. But this is of no use in indesign for windows. GPU use is a feature that many InDesign users need today. Differentiating between MAC and windows users is very upset.
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Erz commented
Hey Adobe, it's 2020 already.
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Micha Cassola commented
You guys at Adobe do know that there are more Windows users out there than Mac right? This is one of the reasons I advocate so much for Serif Affinity apps as they are fast on every device and they had their Photoshop replacement on iPad before you guys were even talking about it. This is one more point in not using Adobe programs! I have to use the horrible InDesign because of work, otherwise I wouldn't touch it!
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Cebastian Rosing commented
Just add it asap. This is ridiculous. A $3000 laptop is working InDesign like a $300 used laptop from 2010.
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Anonymous commented
Are you forcing us to buy mac? You are cruel adobe. How can you do this to us.
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[Deleted User] commented
Indsing is extremely laggy comparing to Illustrator or Photoshop. This must be implemented first.
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RV Editorial commented
Hi! Why does GPU acceleration in InDesign only work on MAC? I have an extremely powerful Windows PC with next-generation Nvidia Quadro video card, and you just forgot about Windows PC users. Can't do like Ilustrator? Can't use GPU processing intelligence in InDesign? I work with huge two- and one-column footnote files with lots of AI and PSD images. But the lack of GPU acceleration is frustrating. Thank you!
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Francine Silva commented
Please make InDesign support GPU performance again on Windows. I work mostly with InDesign and I think many people do too! That's one the reasons we have GPU powered computers. :)
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Crtomir Just commented
Indesign is practically unusable on a 5K DELL monitor with GTX 1080ti. This is becoming a serious issue for more and more people. I get the fact that Macs got the GPU support a few years back because of the macbooks and iMacs with the retina displays, but now high DPI displays are also a standard in Windows environments, so there should be no more excuses for not implementing this. Adobe, you should at least have the decency to tell your customers, what's going on and why GPU acceleration still isn't implemented!
Will it ever be? Be sincere, so people can at least look to other options ASAP if this doesn't happen. -
Anonymous commented
Anything that makes InDesign faster sounds a nice-to-have, but is the Mac version of GPU acceleration mature yet? The delayed update when you make a text change and then see both old and new versions of the text for several seconds is a clear UX fail. If this could be easily fixed they surely would have done so by now – or is it a sign that their initial, limited implementation of GPU acceleration is fundamentally flawed, and they're not going to roll out a comprehensive cross-platform solution until they've made some architectural changes?
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Nicola Dutoit commented
I use a 2013 iMac with a Quad-Core i5, 16GB of RAM and a GT 750 GPU at work, and a Windows workstation built this year with an Octa-Core Ryzen, 64GB of RAM and a GTX 1080 at home. The now 6 year old iMac absolutely destroys my home setup. This is unacceptable and makes your entire Windows userbase frustrated! I dont see how hard it can be, seeing that Illustrator and Photoshop have had it for quite some time now!
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Bernetto K. commented
Dear mrs. and Mr. Adobe,
please support the GPU performance for Adobe InDesign 2020 on PC/Windows.
How can it be that this option has existed for years in Adobe Illustrator, but not in Adobe InDesign? The performance without this support is really scary when zooming and scrolling! It would make sense to let the video card do the work. The technical implementation must be possible on the part of Adobe, because the whole thing works well on the Mac.
Thanks to our team for accepting this idea!
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Sergio Serrano Hernandez commented
Now that InDesign 15 has been released and Hardware acceleration is still missing for windows 10, I wonder sincerely what is holding Adobe for implementing such an essential feature in a flagship software as this. Performance in windows is underwhelming, even worse than in version 14.
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Nick commented
I've just moved over from MacOS and cannot believe how bad InDesign is on Windows. I have an i9 9900k, 64GB RAM and have tried both an RX590 and and RTX2060... and performance in hi-res complex documents is substantially worse than on my old 2013 iMac.
I downloaded Affinity Publisher to compare and created the same document... the performance was lightning fast as it's GPU accelerated. I'm seriously considering ditching Creative Cloud if Adobe cannot be bothered to implement 21st century essentials like this.
(Oh, and please support 120% display scaling too, like the rest of the suite).