Dr. Joachim Neudert

Apple Mac Studio Ultra, 48 GPU Cores, 20 CPU Cores. 4 TB SSD, 64 GB RAM:

Well, in fact I do own a powerful WIntel PC as well: AMD 16-Core 5950 CPU 5 GHz,with 64 GigaByte RAM and an AMD Radeon 5700 XT with 8 GB Video-RAM. But concerning the real-world Benchmark of Affinity Photo 2.0, it simply lies in the dust against my Mac Studio M1 Ultra. I have posted its benchmarks already some time ago, above in this thread. Raster (Einzel-GPU) 1092 - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Raster (Einzel-GPU): 41291 - Apple M1 Ultra (Metal) combined: Kombiniert (Eine GPU): 23868 - Apple M1 Ultra (Metal) Kombiniert (Eine GPU) 1205 - AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT The Mac Studio M1 Ultra with 48 GPU-Cores is faster by a factor of 20 to 40 to the AMD GPU (AMD graphics chips offer no hardware acceleration for Affinity photo), and factor 2 to 4 than any of the Intel-Nvidia-Benchmarks result that were posted here. A single GPU score of 41291 points has still to be beaten, a combined score of 23868 as well. Best regards Joachim

With the new program version: Combined Score 24 657 Points. Mac Studio Ultra, 64 GB, 48 GPU Cores:

Windows 10 AMD Ryzen 5950 64 GB RAM AMD RX5700 XT Graphics card

Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra, 64 GB, 48 GPU Cores:

Hello Lee, it is an AMD Radeon RX 5700XT. Soon to be replaced by an AMD Radeon 7900 XTX. Direct X12 should be working. As far as I understand, Serif claims a problem with AMDs OpenCL implementaion. If I try to activate "hardware acceleration" OpenCL on my Windows 10 PC (AMD Ryzen 5950 16-Core CPU with 64 GB RAM), Affinity Photo V1 tells me (in German) that it needs Windows 10 from Mai 2020 or newer. Which I run, naturally. So now it runs only as a rasterizer on my Radeon Card. Not so bad, but the Benchmrks on my Mac Studio Ultra with hardware acceleration are way faster. It`s a minor problem, of course. Greetings from Bavaria Joachim

Is hardware acceleration now possible für AMD Radeon cards? When I try to activate it in V1, I get the misleading answer "Windows 10 is necessary", which is obviously running in the newest version. But when digging in the forum I see Affinity doesn't support OpenGL on Radeons above the 5000 series. Hardware acceleration would be an important feature , I would buy the new Version 2 if it is supported now. I have it now on the Mac Studio (with Apple GPU Chips, on a AMD R295 GPU in my Intel iMac it didn't work as well) and would love to get it in Windows as well. Is it supported now? Best regards Joachim Neudert