Interesting. My system is an Apple Mac mini (2018-2019 version) running latest macOS (Catalina 10.15.5). It has a 3.2GHz Intel i7-6 core processor and 32G RAM, and an Intel UHD Graphics 630 display driver with 1536 MB on-board RAM and a 1T SSD. Catalogs and data are all on an external USB-3.1 bus connected to a hub and enclosure all supporting USB-3.1.
I did a test of rendering out 100 Hasselblad 907x 50 Mpixel raw files with the GPU graphics acceleration on and off, zero difference (~3 min 35 seconds or about 2 seconds each). RAM usage in the system activity monitor never exceeds 7 Gbytes, and the GPU indicator is never non-0. If I import 12 new raw files and step through them at 1:1 display view scaling, there is about a 1.5 second delay per exposure the first time as the previews are built, otherwise no delay at all. I don't know how to relate this to the performance you're reporting. Operation when editing seems fast and smooth to me. You piqued my curiosity so I looked up Loupedeck+. It looks interesting but I'm not sure what advantage it might have for me, for still photo editing. My muscle memory for LR is such that a long, complex rendering adjustment really takes only at most 90 seconds per frame. I suspect that it might be more useful for video editing, maybe…? just don't know. G > On Jul 8, 2020, at 11:32 AM, Toine <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's more or less what I have (32 Gb but lightroom never goes beyond 16 > Gb on my system). If you search lightroom forums they claim any GPU > should be fast enough. A cheap 1050ti and the 4Gb GPU memory makes the > difference in develop mode. I don't see high GPU usage. The fun part is my > gigabyte version doesn't use the GPU fans below 60 C, which translates in > always 0dB from the GPU fans while using lightroom. > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 19:28, Henk Terhell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lightroom is indeed requiring a lot of RAM. >> My new PC got 16 GB RAM and LR on SSD, but only an integrated GPU on >> Intel i7. >> I'm most happy with the speed of LR now, though the bottleneck is the >> external 6 TB harddisk on which I'm downloading my photos. >> >> Henk >> >> Op 2020-07-07 om 20:50 schreef Toine: >>> I found a Loupedeck+ on our local ebay. Nice gadget but it doesn't play >>> nice if Lightroom is slow. >>> So how to speed upgrade lightroom? RAM, CPU, SSD isn't the latest and >>> greatest but enough and paying 1000 euros for a 2x speed improvement... >>> So I made a gamble and searched on our local ebay and found a used >> geforce >>> 1050ti 4Gb. To my surprise develop mode in lightroom is much faster (3 >>> maybe 4x) and lightroom in general feels smoother. The 4Gb gpu ram is >>> actually used by lightroom (memory usage jumps from 1 Gb to 4 Gb once >>> lightroom starts. >>> >>> Toine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
