Upgrade of PC to improve Affinity Photo Processing Speeds

[jaykay21]

Affinity is running ok but when I apply filters or do any form of focus stacking, etc it can really take its time. I am due a bit of an upgrade anyway but not sure if I should go from a standard SSD (read 550 mb/s and write 500 mb/s) to an M.2 drive (read 7300 mb/s and write 6800 mb/s) or just double my RAM from 16gb to 32gb.

Any suggestions? which would improve my file handling and processing speeds whilst using Affinity Photo - M.2 or RAM?

[v_kyr]

Both will have some impact here. - Aka more RAM less swapping when performing huge image processing data. And SSD connection wise, a faster SSD which performs i/o (read/write) operations much quicker than a lame one, will also have some impact in terms of file load/write speeds.

[carl123]

58 minutes ago, jaykay21 said:

but when I apply filters or do any form of focus stacking

I would have thought that applying filters and focus stacking were more CPU and Memory tasks rather than disk I/O

But you can monitor all 3 to see what exactly is being used and if there are any bottlenecks

 

[jaykay21]

Thanks for the replies. Think I will go with a RAM upgrade first