MP 7,1 2019 Mac Pro 7,1 Lightroom and Photoshop configuration and Test [UPDATE: Radeon VII, 2013 MAC PRO TEST]

[chfilm]

oh nooo?thank you guys for all these useful info

Mac Benchmarks - Geekbench

But I notice mac geekbench for mac pro 7.1 at single cores performance.
The 28 is faster than fewer cores mac pro 7.1 which is interesting before was more cores will be lower single cores performance.

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thats super interesting and awesome indeed! Glad I went with 16 cores.

 

[bsbeamer]

Don’t put your faith in GB5 charts. Run the tests in intervals 10 times and take the average. The test is inconsistent at best.

 

[MaxYuryev]

Looks like he did the CPU upgrade in a different thread, and it use all the cores and took him from 29min with his old 12 core down to 12min export in lighroom.

 

[zhpenn]

Looks like he did the CPU upgrade in a different thread, and it use all the cores and took him from 29min with his old 12 core down to 12min export in lighroom.

Hi Max. Yes successfuly upgrades. And btw I watch you videos ?big fan here

 

[Adult80HD]

I just got my Mac Pro today; I will be mostly using it with LR as well. Like the OP, I export lots of raw files every day, and also do exports of TIFF files to HeliconFocus for focus stacking. I decided to go with the 16-core as a sweet spot of price/performance, as I didn't feel like doing my own CPU upgrade. I got the Radeon Pro Vega II rather than the Duo or a pair, as LR can only use one GPU, but it loves having a lot of GPU memory for edits, etc. Right now I've got 192GB of RAM, which should be fine, if not, I'll cap it out with 384GB of RDIMMs and that should be more than enough.

I barely got it set up today before I had to leave the office, but I did get time to do a quick export of a dozen images from LR into HeliconFocus and it was insanely fast. What would have taken several minutes on my fully-loaded 16" MBP took maybe 15 seconds. Same with the stack in HeliconFocus, which is optimized for AVX-512.

Tomorrow I should have all of the parts to install my NVMe RAID configuration where I will load my data and then I'll test it all out in a round of comparisons to my 16" MBP. Based on what I saw this afternoon, however, it's going to save me hours of time every week, and for me time = money.

 

[libertyranger10]

I just got my Mac Pro today; I will be mostly using it with LR as well. Like the OP, I export lots of raw files every day, and also do exports of TIFF files to HeliconFocus for focus stacking. I decided to go with the 16-core as a sweet spot of price/performance, as I didn't feel like doing my own CPU upgrade. I got the Radeon Pro Vega II rather than the Duo or a pair, as LR can only use one GPU, but it loves having a lot of GPU memory for edits, etc. Right now I've got 192GB of RAM, which should be fine, if not, I'll cap it out with 384GB of RDIMMs and that should be more than enough.

I barely got it set up today before I had to leave the office, but I did get time to do a quick export of a dozen images from LR into HeliconFocus and it was insanely fast. What would have taken several minutes on my fully-loaded 16" MBP took maybe 15 seconds. Same with the stack in HeliconFocus, which is optimized for AVX-512.

Tomorrow I should have all of the parts to install my NVMe RAID configuration where I will load my data and then I'll test it all out in a round of comparisons to my 16" MBP. Based on what I saw this afternoon, however, it's going to save me hours of time every week, and for me time = money.

Wow, this is exactly what I’m looking for! I’m trying to figure how much of a difference it would be between the new 16 MBP and the Mac Pro. Looking forward to your Lightroom tests! That’s the main program I use these days!

 

[chfilm]

Wow, this is exactly what I’m looking for! I’m trying to figure how much of a difference it would be between the new 16 MBP and the Mac Pro. Looking forward to your Lightroom tests! That’s the main program I use these days!

What I’m extremely curious about is how the UI performance of Lightroom is on the new machine on a >=4K display. It used to be absolutely AWFUL on my Dell 5k display on the trashcan.

 

[Adult80HD]

What I’m extremely curious about is how the UI performance of Lightroom is on the new machine on a >=4K display. It used to be absolutely AWFUL on my Dell 5k display on the trashcan.

What version of Lightroom were you using? It has varied a lot by version, although overall LR has performed poorly on 5K displays. The latest version released this past year helped a lot but if you had an older graphics card, it was still pretty painful at 5K. I had a mid-2018 loaded 15" MBP and LR was slowwww on that machine, and it took the new high end graphics card in the 16" MBP to make it snappy again.

I'm waiting for my 6+ TB photo archive to migrate over to my NVMe RAID and then I'll do some testing on overall performance, especially since my 6K ProDisplay XDR arrived today.

 

[vel0city]

I would love to see some feedback on Photoshop performance for things like working with large (4k+) files with 20+ Smart Objects embedded; working with 4k artboards with 10+ individual artboards; Is brush lag still evident working on hi-res files? Any brush lag when brush smoothing is reduced to 0%? How is Mixer Brush performance with multi-layered (10+ layers) files and brush samples set to All Layers? How is overall Photoshop UI performance and feel? Thanks for any feedback.

 

[libertyranger10]

What version of Lightroom were you using? It has varied a lot by version, although overall LR has performed poorly on 5K displays. The latest version released this past year helped a lot but if you had an older graphics card, it was still pretty painful at 5K. I had a mid-2018 loaded 15" MBP and LR was slowwww on that machine, and it took the new high end graphics card in the 16" MBP to make it snappy again.

I'm waiting for my 6+ TB photo archive to migrate over to my NVMe RAID and then I'll do some testing on overall performance, especially since my 6K ProDisplay XDR arrived today.

Looking forward to your results! I'm curious too as to how it will run on the new 6k displays.

 

[chfilm]

What version of Lightroom were you using? It has varied a lot by version, although overall LR has performed poorly on 5K displays. The latest version released this past year helped a lot but if you had an older graphics card, it was still pretty painful at 5K. I had a mid-2018 loaded 15" MBP and LR was slowwww on that machine, and it took the new high end graphics card in the 16" MBP to make it snappy again.

I'm waiting for my 6+ TB photo archive to migrate over to my NVMe RAID and then I'll do some testing on overall performance, especially since my 6K ProDisplay XDR arrived today.

Always on the latest version, but on a D700 trashcan.. Im Super curious how it’s gonna perform on the new cheesegrater.
There’s a threat over on the Adobe forum where a lot of angry people are ranting about the UI lag in Lightroom classic even on fully specked iMac Pro’s, so I’m nervous if the Vega II is gonna help or if it’s just some coding issue with Lightroom and retina screens in general.
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Looking forward to your results! I'm curious too as to how it will run on the new 6k displays.

I’m gonna report on Monday when I get my monster how it behaves on my dual 5K displays.

 

[Adult80HD]

Always on the latest version, but on a D700 trashcan.. Im Super curious how it’s gonna perform on the new cheesegrater.
There’s a threat over on the Adobe forum where a lot of angry people are ranting about the UI lag in Lightroom classic even on fully specked iMac Pro’s, so I’m nervous if the Vega II is gonna help or if it’s just some coding issue with Lightroom and retina screens in general.
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I’m gonna report on Monday when I get my monster how it behaves on my dual 5K displays.

Well I've come to just accept some UI lag in Lightroom, especially with the latest 9.x releases. Adobe has gotten fat and lazy with everyone on subscriptions and they have been slow at really updating their software or dealing with performance issues. I'll touch on that later in this post.

I did get a little time playing around today and compared an export of some files on my Mac Pro with my 16" MBP Pro. The Mac Pro I have is the 16-core 3.2/4.4 Ghz with 192GB of RAM, 2TB drive, and the Radeon Vega II w/ 32MB of HBM2 RAM. My 16" MBP is the 8-core 2.4/5.0 Ghz with 64GB of RAM, 4TB drive and the Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of RAM.

I spent most of my day finishing setting up everything the way I wanted on the Mac Pro and migrating over my Lightroom library and settings, etc. Both machines are set up to use full GPU acceleration as I have found that helps for many tasks in the new version of LR (especially adjustment brushes). I had just enough time to run an import of some new files into the Mac Pro but I forgot to time how long that took. Instead I timed another function: Exporting full-sized TIFF files from LR into HeliconFocus to do focus stacking or product images. This is one of the most time-consuming tasks for me and I spend more time waiting for files to export than I would like. I use a Sony A7R IV, so I am pushing out 61-Mpx files into huge TIFF images to stack; I export them as 16-bit TIFFs to maintain as much data as possible through the editing pipeline. Exporting 30 files on the Mac Pro took just over 40 seconds; exporting the exact same files on the 16" MBP took 145 seconds. Stacking them is now super fast as HeliconFocus is AVX-512 optimized, and can leverage the GPU. I was able to stack all 30 images in just 7 seconds. The MBP is no slouch here either, as the 5500M GPU really smokes--I saw huge improvements in stacking speed with that GPU: It took 17 seconds. So on these two common tasks, the Mac Pro was roughly 2.5-3.5x as fast as the loaded MBP. Interestingly enough it cost me 2.5x as much as well. Pretty linear relationship between the cost and performance.

I need to do more extensive testing, and get some averages for these tasks, but this was a very pleasing initial result. I import and process a lot of images like this; this afternoon I imported 240 files from this one session, and some days I will do 3-4x that many. I wish I had timed the import and creation of previews as that was definitely also much faster on the MacPro. My gut feeling is that was probably in that same 2.5-3.5x faster range.

I did notice some UI lag in Lightroom, mainly while scrolling through my library. That may be because of the high-resolution screen or because I had migrated it. I will do more testing in the coming days. I am using it with my new ProDisplay XDR (nano version) so it's the first I've tried LR with a 6K display. I will do some comparisons of UI responsiveness with my LG Ultrafine 5K display and a 4K display I have. I have a feeling they will be much snappier, as I noticed that in the past with LR on external displays attached to the MBP--the higher the resolution, the more "laggy" the LR UI gets. I didn't feel it was bad, but I also didn't have a ton of time to mess around.

I'll post more here as I get more time to do some structured comparison testing.

 

[chfilm]

Well I've come to just accept some UI lag in Lightroom, especially with the latest 9.x releases. Adobe has gotten fat and lazy with everyone on subscriptions and they have been slow at really updating their software or dealing with performance issues. I'll touch on that later in this post.

I did get a little time playing around today and compared an export of some files on my Mac Pro with my 16" MBP Pro. The Mac Pro I have is the 16-core 3.2/4.4 Ghz with 192GB of RAM, 2TB drive, and the Radeon Vega II w/ 32MB of HBM2 RAM. My 16" MBP is the 8-core 2.4/5.0 Ghz with 64GB of RAM, 4TB drive and the Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of RAM.

I spent most of my day finishing setting up everything the way I wanted on the Mac Pro and migrating over my Lightroom library and settings, etc. Both machines are set up to use full GPU acceleration as I have found that helps for many tasks in the new version of LR (especially adjustment brushes). I had just enough time to run an import of some new files into the Mac Pro but I forgot to time how long that took. Instead I timed another function: Exporting full-sized TIFF files from LR into HeliconFocus to do focus stacking or product images. This is one of the most time-consuming tasks for me and I spend more time waiting for files to export than I would like. I use a Sony A7R IV, so I am pushing out 61-Mpx files into huge TIFF images to stack; I export them as 16-bit TIFFs to maintain as much data as possible through the editing pipeline. Exporting 30 files on the Mac Pro took just over 40 seconds; exporting the exact same files on the 16" MBP took 145 seconds. Stacking them is now super fast as HeliconFocus is AVX-512 optimized, and can leverage the GPU. I was able to stack all 30 images in just 7 seconds. The MBP is no slouch here either, as the 5500M GPU really smokes--I saw huge improvements in stacking speed with that GPU: It took 17 seconds. So on these two common tasks, the Mac Pro was roughly 2.5-3.5x as fast as the loaded MBP. Interestingly enough it cost me 2.5x as much as well. Pretty linear relationship between the cost and performance.

I need to do more extensive testing, and get some averages for these tasks, but this was a very pleasing initial result. I import and process a lot of images like this; this afternoon I imported 240 files from this one session, and some days I will do 3-4x that many. I wish I had timed the import and creation of previews as that was definitely also much faster on the MacPro. My gut feeling is that was probably in that same 2.5-3.5x faster range.

I did notice some UI lag in Lightroom, mainly while scrolling through my library. That may be because of the high-resolution screen or because I had migrated it. I will do more testing in the coming days. I am using it with my new ProDisplay XDR (nano version) so it's the first I've tried LR with a 6K display. I will do some comparisons of UI responsiveness with my LG Ultrafine 5K display and a 4K display I have. I have a feeling they will be much snappier, as I noticed that in the past with LR on external displays attached to the MBP--the higher the resolution, the more "laggy" the LR UI gets. I didn't feel it was bad, but I also didn't have a ton of time to mess around.

I'll post more here as I get more time to do some structured comparison testing.

Awesome review, thanks for that first impression!

 

[libertyranger10]

Well I've come to just accept some UI lag in Lightroom, especially with the latest 9.x releases. Adobe has gotten fat and lazy with everyone on subscriptions and they have been slow at really updating their software or dealing with performance issues. I'll touch on that later in this post.

I did get a little time playing around today and compared an export of some files on my Mac Pro with my 16" MBP Pro. The Mac Pro I have is the 16-core 3.2/4.4 Ghz with 192GB of RAM, 2TB drive, and the Radeon Vega II w/ 32MB of HBM2 RAM. My 16" MBP is the 8-core 2.4/5.0 Ghz with 64GB of RAM, 4TB drive and the Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of RAM.

I spent most of my day finishing setting up everything the way I wanted on the Mac Pro and migrating over my Lightroom library and settings, etc. Both machines are set up to use full GPU acceleration as I have found that helps for many tasks in the new version of LR (especially adjustment brushes). I had just enough time to run an import of some new files into the Mac Pro but I forgot to time how long that took. Instead I timed another function: Exporting full-sized TIFF files from LR into HeliconFocus to do focus stacking or product images. This is one of the most time-consuming tasks for me and I spend more time waiting for files to export than I would like. I use a Sony A7R IV, so I am pushing out 61-Mpx files into huge TIFF images to stack; I export them as 16-bit TIFFs to maintain as much data as possible through the editing pipeline. Exporting 30 files on the Mac Pro took just over 40 seconds; exporting the exact same files on the 16" MBP took 145 seconds. Stacking them is now super fast as HeliconFocus is AVX-512 optimized, and can leverage the GPU. I was able to stack all 30 images in just 7 seconds. The MBP is no slouch here either, as the 5500M GPU really smokes--I saw huge improvements in stacking speed with that GPU: It took 17 seconds. So on these two common tasks, the Mac Pro was roughly 2.5-3.5x as fast as the loaded MBP. Interestingly enough it cost me 2.5x as much as well. Pretty linear relationship between the cost and performance.

I need to do more extensive testing, and get some averages for these tasks, but this was a very pleasing initial result. I import and process a lot of images like this; this afternoon I imported 240 files from this one session, and some days I will do 3-4x that many. I wish I had timed the import and creation of previews as that was definitely also much faster on the MacPro. My gut feeling is that was probably in that same 2.5-3.5x faster range.

I did notice some UI lag in Lightroom, mainly while scrolling through my library. That may be because of the high-resolution screen or because I had migrated it. I will do more testing in the coming days. I am using it with my new ProDisplay XDR (nano version) so it's the first I've tried LR with a 6K display. I will do some comparisons of UI responsiveness with my LG Ultrafine 5K display and a 4K display I have. I have a feeling they will be much snappier, as I noticed that in the past with LR on external displays attached to the MBP--the higher the resolution, the more "laggy" the LR UI gets. I didn't feel it was bad, but I also didn't have a ton of time to mess around.

I'll post more here as I get more time to do some structured comparison testing.

Great stuff! I use a Sony a7r IV too, so hearing these results is awesome! My current 2014 iMac takes about 6 seconds an image to export, so it sounds like this would be a huge increase in speed!

 

[zhpenn]

I just got my Mac Pro today; I will be mostly using it with LR as well. Like the OP, I export lots of raw files every day, and also do exports of TIFF files to HeliconFocus for focus stacking. I decided to go with the 16-core as a sweet spot of price/performance, as I didn't feel like doing my own CPU upgrade. I got the Radeon Pro Vega II rather than the Duo or a pair, as LR can only use one GPU, but it loves having a lot of GPU memory for edits, etc. Right now I've got 192GB of RAM, which should be fine, if not, I'll cap it out with 384GB of RDIMMs and that should be more than enough.

I barely got it set up today before I had to leave the office, but I did get time to do a quick export of a dozen images from LR into HeliconFocus and it was insanely fast. What would have taken several minutes on my fully-loaded 16" MBP took maybe 15 seconds. Same with the stack in HeliconFocus, which is optimized for AVX-512.

Tomorrow I should have all of the parts to install my NVMe RAID configuration where I will load my data and then I'll test it all out in a round of comparisons to my 16" MBP. Based on what I saw this afternoon, however, it's going to save me hours of time every week, and for me time = money.

Congrats mate! Can I ask a few questions and hope to discuss with you.

CPU
As to 16-Cores vs 28-Cores spec
3.2GHz 16‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
2.5GHz 28‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz

Because When I using my 28 Cores, the speed always from 2.8-3.0 MHZ during export with all 28-Cores Fully Loaded.
Can you please use the Intel Power Gadget and take a screenshot when exporting Raws? I have attached mine

GPU
I am very curious about GPU performance is it really matter in Lightroom?
Because I use activity monitor and check when editing the GPU usage is very low, but if the clock speed is higher in Vega II, will it be a lot faster than 580x in the Lightroom Develop module?
especially switching between images in the Develop module.


NVMe RAID
I am also planning to get one for my scratch disk of PS and Lightroom Camera Raw Cache
I saw others get 6000MB+/s Read and write when using Sonect or Highpoint raid card.
Do you think this will give a huge performance improvement on the Lightroom? current internal SSD only 2800MB/s

ant btw
which NMme Raid card are you planning to get? I want to get one bootable later maybe useful
Is Mac OS SoftRAID reliable?

Thank you very much
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Wow, this is exactly what I’m looking for! I’m trying to figure how much of a difference it would be between the new 16 MBP and the Mac Pro. Looking forward to your Lightroom tests! That’s the main program I use these days!

I tried editing some photos yesterday with my 28 cores / 580X/ 128GB RAM
switching between an image in DEV mode of Lightroom is very fast! super fast!hahaha, this save my time a lot
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What I’m extremely curious about is how the UI performance of Lightroom is on the new machine on a >=4K display. It used to be absolutely AWFUL on my Dell 5k display on the trashcan.

as to 4K 5K 6K monitor, I really want to say, LR user, stay away from those HiDPI monitors if you need speed.

I used 4k+ monitor on Lightroom 4 years ago on my Mac Pro 2013 then I sold the 4K Dell then get a Dell 30inch 2560x1600 Monitor. Because 4K kills a lot of performance, even I have Mac Pro 2019 now, I stick with it

I know how HiDPI monitor Kills performance when I using my 6 cores RMBP 2018 internal Monitor(HiDPi) vs external monitor 2560x1600

Mac Pro 2019, as to speed, LR switching between images in development module is a loooooot better than 2013 Mac Pro(12Cores) and 2018 RMBP(6 Cores) in terms of the responsiveness, but still not "instant" respond yet, but close enough to switch between images in Library module in Mac Pro 2013)

I’m not sure the current GPU or CPU will make it fast enough to make me feel no different between 4K and Normal 2K screen.

In this case, I don't want to use a 4K screen to make it less responsive, which may possibly be.

 

[libertyranger10]

Congrats mate! Can I ask a few questions and hope to discuss with you.

CPU
As to 16-Cores vs 28-Cores spec
3.2GHz 16‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
2.5GHz 28‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz

Because When I using my 28 Cores, the speed always from 2.8-3.0 MHZ during export with all 28-Cores Fully Loaded.
Can you please use the Intel Power Gadget and take a screenshot when exporting Raws? I have attached mine

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GPU
I am very curious about GPU performance is it really matter in Lightroom?
Because I use activity monitor and check when editing the GPU usage is very low, but if the clock speed is higher in Vega II, will it be a lot faster than 580x in the Lightroom Develop module?
especially switching between images in the Develop module.


NVMe RAID
I am also planning to get one for my scratch disk of PS and Lightroom Camera Raw Cache
I saw others get 6000MB+/s Read and write when using Sonect or Highpoint raid card.
Do you think this will give a huge performance improvement on the Lightroom? current internal SSD only 2800MB/s

ant btw
which NMme Raid card are you planning to get? I want to get one bootable later maybe useful
Is Mac OS SoftRAID reliable?

Thank you very much
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I tried editing some photos yesterday with my 28 cores / 580X/ 128GB RAM
switching between an image in DEV mode of Lightroom is very fast! super fast!hahaha, this save my time a lot

Oh man, my wallet is starting to feel some pain....

Have you had a chance to run any import 1:1 preview tests, or export tests with any cameras?

 

[Adult80HD]

Congrats mate! Can I ask a few questions and hope to discuss with you.

CPU
As to 16-Cores vs 28-Cores spec
3.2GHz 16‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
2.5GHz 28‑Core Intel Xeon W processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz

Because When I using my 28 Cores, the speed always from 2.8-3.0 MHZ during export with all 28-Cores Fully Loaded.
Can you please use the Intel Power Gadget and take a screenshot when exporting Raws? I have attached mine

View attachment 885143

GPU
I am very curious about GPU performance is it really matter in Lightroom?
Because I use activity monitor and check when editing the GPU usage is very low, but if the clock speed is higher in Vega II, will it be a lot faster than 580x in the Lightroom Develop module?
especially switching between images in the Develop module.


NVMe RAID
I am also planning to get one for my scratch disk of PS and Lightroom Camera Raw Cache
I saw others get 6000MB+/s Read and write when using Sonect or Highpoint raid card.
Do you think this will give a huge performance improvement on the Lightroom? current internal SSD only 2800MB/s

ant btw
which NMme Raid card are you planning to get? I want to get one bootable later maybe useful
Is Mac OS SoftRAID reliable?

Thank you very much

I'll download the Intel app next week, as I'm home from the office for the weekend.

GPU

As to GPU, it does really help with the higher-resolution screens. The LR 9.x updates made the app feel very slow on editing on my LG 5K screen. Terrible actually. When I upgraded to the 16" MBP with the 5500M w/8GB of RAM, it massively improved. In fact, I got the Vega II precisely for this reason, as I had already ordered the ProDisplay XDR and knew I would need the horsepower. I'll do some comparisons of the UI speed with the ProDisplay, the LG 5K and a 4K display I have to compare.


NVMe RAID

I am using the HighPoint 7101A-1 RAID card as it has it's own RAID software and can boot into Windows/Linux whereas the Sonnet card cannot. In order to get it to work, I had to disable Secure Boot, but I don't know if that's required in all cases--the documentation did not say you had to do it, so it maybe something that only turns up in certain situations. Right now I'm trying to figure out if it would make Lightroom faster if I booted off of the NVMe card. Not sure I want to do that though.

 

[zhpenn]

Oh man, my wallet is starting to feel some pain....

Have you had a chance to run any import 1:1 preview tests, or export tests with any cameras?

307 RAW files to medium jpg

Mac Pro 2019 28-Cores
223s

Mac Pro 2013 12-Cores
418s

vs 0.53

1109 RAW file to lager jpg

Mac Pro 2019 28-Cores
16:25=985s

Mac Pro 2013 12-Cores
29:16=1756s

vs 0.56
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[libertyranger10]

307 RAW files to medium jpg

Mac Pro 2019
223s

Mac Pro 2013
418s

vs 0.53

1109 RAW file to lager jpg

Mac Pro 2019
16:25=985s

Mac Pro 2013
29:16=1756s

vs 0.56
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what processor is in the new Mac Pro?

 

[zhpenn]

what processor is in the new Mac Pro?

Mac Pro 2019 28-Cores
Mac Pro 2013 12-Cores

 

[zhpenn]

I export 8000 JPG resizing
2013 Mac Pro 12 cores take 29 mins,
2019 28 cores take just 12mins!

 

[Average Pro]

I almost feel a sub-title of this post should be, "Best Configuration for Photographers". The only item I planned to keep stock on the Mac Pro was the Radeon Pro 580X. Let's keep this topic going.

 

[Adult80HD]

I almost feel a sub-title of this post should be, "Best Configuration for Photographers". The only item I planned to keep stock on the Mac Pro was the Radeon Pro 580X. Let's keep this topic going.

If you're not going to use the ProDisplay XDR or a 5K display then I would say the 580X should be perfectly fine, but otherwise I would either wait for the W5700X to be added as an option or go with the Vega II like I did, at least if you use Lightroom/Photoshop a lot.

 

[zhpenn]

I'll download the Intel app next week, as I'm home from the office for the weekend.

GPU

As to GPU, it does really help with the higher-resolution screens. The LR 9.x updates made the app feel very slow on editing on my LG 5K screen. Terrible actually. When I upgraded to the 16" MBP with the 5500M w/8GB of RAM, it massively improved. In fact, I got the Vega II precisely for this reason, as I had already ordered the ProDisplay XDR and knew I would need the horsepower. I'll do some comparisons of the UI speed with the ProDisplay, the LG 5K and a 4K display I have to compare.


NVMe RAID

I am using the HighPoint 7101A-1 RAID card as it has it's own RAID software and can boot into Windows/Linux whereas the Sonnet card cannot. In order to get it to work, I had to disable Secure Boot, but I don't know if that's required in all cases--the documentation did not say you had to do it, so it maybe something that only turns up in certain situations. Right now I'm trying to figure out if it would make Lightroom faster if I booted off of the NVMe card. Not sure I want to do that though.

Thanks a lot for your input

as to gpu, I may upgrade 3rd party later, like VII or 5700
to mesure the improvement between them in Lightroom, should I look at the Metal or OpenGL Scores in Geekbench?

as to raid, I didn’t mean boot from nvme to get improvement, I mean set Lightroom camera raw caches folder and catalog files smart previews to the fast raid drives may be improving speed, just curious how much improvement can we get from faster drive.

looking forward for your updates and the screenshots of intel app, thanks a lot.

 

[Passingby]

I export 8000 JPG resizing
2013 Mac Pro 12 cores take 29 mins,
2019 28 cores take just 12mins!

Not a surprise. That's 6 years of progress by Intel and Adobe. Has nothing to do with Apple.