![]() If it’s not, I’d love to learn about the differences.DxO PhotoLab (formerly DxO OpticsPro) is the award winning RAW conversion software for Mac and PC. I expect the engineering is similar for Windows. It doesn’t seem to be taxed at any point when running DxO Photo Lab Elite 2. GPU: I have special software to monitor the GPU. All cores are maxed (don’t plan on doing much multi-tasking, although web browsing or writing will still work). ![]() The Mac Pro does the job in about 12 minutes. On the other hand, when I go to export a set of 50 photos with Prime Denoise (a mix of 5DS R and 5DIII RAW files), the MBP has full fans on and takes over an hour. Here’s some real world Mac examples: editing on my MacBook Pro 2011 17" 2.2 GHz 4 core with 16 GB RAM doesn’t feel much slower than on my Mac Pro 12 3.33 GHz core computer with 128 GB of memory and Radeon RX580 with 8 GB of VRAM. For editing Photo Lab seems to only use about four of them. On export, DxO Photo Lab uses all of the cores. ![]() Yeah, OK, CPU and memory, like for everything else that isn’t disk bound - but, for the CPU, is there more benefit in per-core performance, number of cores or number of threads ? That was the ‘secret sauce’ when building Windows drivers. I’d love to know what machine setups developers are targeting. *not so much hard to write but hard to debug when something goes wrong, especially on a machine with timings other than your QA test mules. So I’m not expecting an i9 (12/18 cores) to do much for me. I get that multiprocessing is hard*, and that, as you add threads and processes, you get diminishing returns based on locking sections. But a different chipset (so a bit faster I/O might be)įWIW, I’m a (retired) software developer. I’m on a 4 core i5 now, bags of memory, SSL, so what should I throw at this? More cores? Raw core performance? Storage system? I don’t see PL using a huge proportion of my current 32Mb, so I don’t think ‘more memory’ is the answer. ![]() I’m in process of specing another PC to scratch build for myself - but I’m uncertain what I should put more money on, and what is less important, I recently installed a decent graphics card in my current PC, set PL to use OpenCL and saw a modest improvement in ‘export’ functions. ![]()
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