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New PC build for Affinity Photo
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Posted · Edited by Lighthunter
Hello, this is my first post in this forum.
I recently purchased a new high resolution camera and my PC is showing its age. It's still usable but I would like it to be snappier when editing a lot of images at once.
My current PC specs:
- Intel i5 6600 (4 cores, 4 threads)
- 2 x 8GB Ram (2400ghz)
- ATI Radeon RX 460 4GB GPU
- Samsung EVO 860 SSD
My new system might be:
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700x (8 cores, 16 threads)
- 2 x 8GB Ram (3200ghz)
- Keep my ATI Radeon GPU
- Samsung EVO 970 plus m.2 SSD
I have a few questions specifically for using Affinity Photo:
1) Will I see a significant benefit of the 8-core CPU over e.g. a cheaper 6-core CPU (Ryzen 5 3600)?
2) Will my GPU bottle neck my system? Or in other words, would I benefit in any way from a better GPU?
3) I want to replace my 2400ghz ram with 3200ghz version. Will there be a noticeable performance boost or would you rather keep the 2400ghz ram?
Some words around what I do with Affinity Photo. I process 30mp raw images in 16 bit and typically apply 5-10 layers with custom LUTs and other corrections. I sometimes stitch panoramas with 2 to 6 of such 30mp images. I use batch jobs a lot to apply certain macros to a lot of images.
The batch processing screen struggles to load multiple images (50+) and it seems to crash AP but eventually loads them.
Most annoying is to merge visible layers which seems to take too long (sometimes 30 seconds).
So overall, I want to invest in new hardware and would like to understand which components would provide the biggest performance boost.
Thanks