I have my 2012 Mac mini i7-quad core @ 2.3Ghz @1T SSD right here too. The new 2018-2019 mini runs rings around it too … The old one tested the same way takes about 7.5 seconds per raw file conversion and output compared to the new one at just about 2 seconds, averaged. And the editing experience is much slower, about 3-5 seconds per new file selected, when compared against the new one as well.
The memory use numbers for LR on the old system is very very similar to the memory use numbers for the new system, never actually exceeding 7G RAM. This doesn't give me any info at all, however, trying to compare the performance of my current Lightroom on Mac mini performance with Toine and Henk's Lightroom on PC computers with respect to memory use and rendering performance. That's what I was looking to understand. Lightroom does seem to recognize the i7-six core onboard GPU (Intel UHD Graphics 630, Metal-compatible) and allows me to turn on performance enhancement, but it is a little shy on GPU RAM at 1.5G rather than the 2.0G minimum on the Adobe web page that's recommended. I see a small boost in the frame-to-frame performance with the GPU performance enhancement turned on when I'm scrolling or doing a rendering adjustment, but it moves by so fast that watching the numbers in Activity Monitor doesn't show anything and I don't have the performance analyzer software I used to have (which would capture a trace on a much higher sampling rate basis) installed any more. G > On Jul 9, 2020, at 7:44 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 09.07.20 um 16:26 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: > >> ...Intel UHD Graphics 630 display driver... >> I did a test of rendering out 100 Hasselblad 907x 50 Mpixel raw files with >> the GPU graphics acceleration on and off, zero difference ... and the GPU >> indicator is never non-0. > > That's because the Intel graphics isn't a proper GPU. Mac Minis don't > have any real graphics acceleration. > > I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) and a MBP (mid 2012) both with a i7 at 2.3 > GHz and 16 GB of RAM. The Mini has the usual Intel graphics and the MBP > has the Intel graphics plus a built-in NVIDIA GForce GT650M. It runs > circles around the Mini with things like creating thumbnails on import > in Lightroom. -- 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.
