Color discripancy between "View on CPU" and "View on GPU" on a Mac with M1 chip
I'm now running AI on a macbook pro with M1 chip.
I noticed that when I switching "View on CPU" to "GPU", all colors became whiter and inaccurate (images inserted in AI became much whiter than the objects created and colored in AI).
I've checked my older Macbook pro with intel CPU and AMD graphic card, the colors keep the same and accurate when I switch from CPU to GPU.
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Caspar commented
Still not solved as of Illustrator 28.0, M1 MacBook Pro 14, macOS Sonoma 14.1 - would be great to not have the colors flicker whenever I move my cursor with GPU enabled.
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Oussama Y. commented
Same here with macbook pro m1, CPU is the most accurate to render but still laggish, gpu is faster but washed out colors, adobe should do something about this fast.
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Nick Stanley commented
I am having this same issue on my M1 Macbook Pro 14". I am also experiencing occasional flickering with mouse movement in GPU mode. The flickering appears to switch between the visual difference of GPU and CPU modes. Everything looks slightly desaturated in GPU mode all the time.
I should mention that I only notice this visual difference on my external monitor that's plugged into my M1 Macbook Pro via HDMI cable. Monitor is a BenQ PD3200U-T set on sRGB color mode.
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Thiago Rodrigues commented
I also have this problem. Macbook Pro M1 with Adobe Illustrator 2021 25.3.1. The only way to have accurate colors on the artboard is using CPU VIEW, but then it's kinda laggish.
If I active VIEW ON GPU, it's smooth, but the colors get too saturated and innacurate.
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Linda commented
When I export anything with a photo in it the photo looks faded or desaturated. It's a real problem when exporting files to be printed because they will print with the faded color.
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Yinkai Duan commented
If you have the same issue and long for a rapid fix of this bug, please vote to attract more attention from the adobe.
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Yinkai Duan commented
The latest version of AI (V25.3) still has the same problem
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cacnyc169 commented
I have the same issue. CPU is accurate but much slower to edit.
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Juan Gómez commented
Check your export options or your document color mode, mine when exporting looks fine, but displays pale.
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Anonymous commented
same issue here, when I export a file the colours are pale and inaccurate. Did you guys find a solution?
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Juan Gómez commented
Having the same problem :( I didn't noticed at first since I most work I did was in PS but recently found out about this and thought it was a problem with color profiles but it clearly isn't since you can see the variation on the color picker and the artboard, document is in RGB, also the line with a gradient showing on the screenshot too, shows "glitchy" issues that shouldn't be there and they're solved in CPU Use mode.
My device is:
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019)
6 Core 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 575X 4 GBAnyone else experiencing this issue could you please email me at jmgomezwilson@gmail.com in case there's no answer in here since it is an old thread?. Thanks.