Re: [darktable-user] Windows or Linux?

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:22:34 -0700

Re your [ASIDE]: I recently built a similarly spec'd photo workstation with Ryzen 3900x 12-core, 32Gb 3200Mhz DDR4, Radeon RX 5500XT 8Gb DDR6 GPU, 2 x NVMe M2 SSD, on an ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4 - all PCIe4 - running OpenSUSE Leap 15.1.  It ABSOLUTELY FLIES!!  Edit actions in DT on 36mpix files that used to take a long time on my Linux Mint laptop (with SSD) which really got in the way of creativity,  now happen in real-time, and export of 16bit tifs take 3-5secs. Working on files on the NAS over 1Gbe network has little performance impact as database and cache are on the local SSD, except for export which takes around twice as long. I spend much less time in front of the computer, and get better results.  Well worth it. Good luck.
On 21/07/2020 23:09, Top Rock Photography wrote:
I also run Dt on a ten years old system, (AMD Phenom II X6), but with a few upgrades, (4GB nVidia GTX 760, and a 4×2TB HDD RAID5 SATA III storage, 1TB SSD SATA III system drive, 32 GB 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM), and it runs fairly fast under Ubuntu 20.04. Also, 66MHz PCI 2.1 bus. The GPU is PCIe 3.0 capable, but the MB is only PCIe 2.0 capable.

I recently did a clean Dt ver 3.0.2 install, and imported 68,000+ raw images, and it took about an hour. I hear horror stories of Lr users taking several hours to import about 1,000 images. Northrup would say that he would come home from a shoot, set his Lr to import the files, and they may be done by the morning, (having run for 7-8 hours).

Now that is a Lr CC on Windows comparison. I have no idea how Dt on Windows will do. I do know that ten years ago, my Linux system would run circles around any similarly spec'ed windows machine, but Windows has come a long way since then. The fact that Dt uses HW acceleration, including GPU, and that it does multithreading, (things that Lr does not do), puts it ahead.

[ASIDE] I hope to upgrade my computer soon, to a PCIe 4.0 MB, a 12 to 24 core Ryzen, (24 to 48 threads), and 32GB ECC 2,666MHz DDR4 RAM, but I will probably keep the same video card for now, (as well as SSD and HDD RAID). Maybe, possibly, but not likely anytime soon, get an M.2 system drive, and a 6 to 8 GB PCIe 4.0 video card. [/ASIDE]

Sincerely,

Karim Hosein
Top Rock Photography
754.999.1652

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