- #DXO PHOTOLAB 2 PERFORMANCE SETUP PRO#
- #DXO PHOTOLAB 2 PERFORMANCE SETUP SOFTWARE#
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#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 PERFORMANCE SETUP PRO#
If you buy the (entry-level) Studio computer and you want a monitor remember that the iMac Pro has a 5K monitor (like the new Studio monitor). But if you are going to batch process lots of images (using Deep Prime) - and the images are 61mPix images (Sony A7RM4) like mine are, then the iMac Pro is going to perform better (and be a lot quieter). But I know when you load those systems up, you hear the fans (the iMac Pro has a much better cooling system). One thing to keep in mind is that these systems are set up for multiprocessing - the high-end 27" iMacs were actually faster for smaller loads. Models with 2 TB SSDs, and the more capable Xenon CPUs are available for more. That includes the one year Apple guarantee (and you can buy Apple Care if you want three year coverage). You can get a basic iMac Pro model (like mine) for $3250. I took a look at the Apple Refurbished website. And, the MBP16 sits in my lap, and doesn’t get warm at all - my last MBP16 (Intel) got too hot to hold when doing work.)
#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 PERFORMANCE SETUP SOFTWARE#
(Versus the MBP16 M1 Max, for normal processing, I don’t really notice a difference - but a lot of software hasn’t been converted to native M1 code yet - as that progresses, the M1 systems will get faster. It you like the combined cpu and display, I think it is still a good buy.
Apple support will likely continue for three years, but you don’t know for sure. My system is three years old now and Apple Care has run out - so I will probably move to the new Studio system and display, but I am in no hurry. It even has a better camera than the other iMac 27 models. The monitor is, of course, beautiful - essentially the same as the new Apple display. (The exception was when I was running Win 10 (MS FS2020) in a bootcamp partition.). The thing about this system is that its performance is almost effortless - the fans hardly ever spin up to be noticeable. I bought an Apple “refurbished” model and saved about $500 - they are probably much less expensive now.
#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 PERFORMANCE SETUP MAC#
The iMac Pro is the best Mac I have ever owned. One last point to note, if you have DeepPRIME enabled in your exports, this algorithm cannot be parallelized, even among several processes, so it might be the bottleneck in your exports. Regarding PL showing one image processed at a time, even if your settings are 8 parallel exports, all 8 processed images won’t be ready exactly at the same time. If you’re low on RAM (let’s say 8GB) you might want 1-2 exports at a time. Nowadays with SSDs between 2 and 4 parallel exports is enough. More processes will lead to increased RAM usage but will be better to hide disk latency. Number of parallel exports will decide how many of these xpccor processes get created. I am not at all unhappy with this process, and the speed of processing - I just want to know more about what it actually happening (under the covers!).Įxport is done by several xpccor processes, not by PhotoLab process itself. I had expected that the images would output in batches of 8 images at a time. The other odd thing I have noticed is that this processing is single-threaded somewhere - if you watch the export window as the processing works - with preferences set to (say) 8 images in parallel - images processing and output occurs one image at a time. I thought perhaps running more images in parallel would help performance. Since I usually run large batches of raw images, I start the process and then leave to have a coffee - I usually don’t have anything else running. (At least for my hardware - maybe it has more effect for lower end hardware.) On both systems, even with 8 images selected, DxO PL5 doesn’t come close to loading these systems anywhere close to 100% - so I doubt this adjustment has any significant effect to the performance of other apps running in parallel - macOS is going to handle the multi-processing. I have a set of 43 RAW images I use for testing - a mixture of Sony A7RM3 and M4, some Olympus E-M5III, and various (older) Canon Digital Rebel images. Both systems are fastest when processing 4 images. I benchmarked these two systems with the 8/4/1 image settings. I have an (Intel) iMac Pro with a Xeon W 8-core CPU and a MBP M1 Max with 10 cores (two efficiency, 8 performance). In each case, the app uses all the CPU cores. I have tested 8 images, 4 images, and 1 image options.
I have been watching what is going on under different settings. But, the User Guide simply says that this is a way to control the impact of the DxO application on the system - you can reduce the load (if you want to run other apps at the same time) by reducing the number of images processed in parallel. I had assumed it controlled the number of CPU cores used by the application. I am trying to understand exactly what this preference does.
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