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FTOG Senior Member • Posts: 1,359
Re: We Need An Adobe Lightroom True Competitor

Batdude wrote:

The fact is that I did upgrade my computer to a Ryzen 3900X CPU with plenty of RAM, why, because of Lightroom,

That should be more than enough for Lightroom. That is well in excess of what most stills shooters will use.

Given ample CPU and RAM capabilities, I would consider storage speed (SSD read/write speed and internal/external bus speed) and catalogue size.

I'm not saying I know what might slow down your software, but with such a CPU it certainly isn't that. Not enough experience with current Adobe software to tell you how big a factor the software is, vs hardware.

but I’m telling you right now that I am NOT going to upgrade to much more expensive hardware anymore. Even with what I have now the software (Lightroom) is the bottleneck, so (they) are the ones that need to make software changes.

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Coming from 16MP to 26MP is already a big jump and it definitely slows down big time for exporting, I can just imagine 40 bloody MP.

I'm on a less powerful CPU (3700X) than your setup, but editing X Trans III files and exports in C1 are speedy. Admittedly, I work with C1 sessions (rather than larger catalogues) and a different software, but really your CPU should not be a bottleneck.

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