Photoshop, Bridge, and ACR/Adobe Camera Raw Performance Analysis Q6600 and i7 2600K

tim wrote in post #14551634
I'm not overclocking, I don't really know how, but I know it's pretty easy these days. I think I'm rarely CPU bound, only very occasionally, maybe it'd be worth it during wedding processing season.

I'd rather have a quiet PC than a loud one that's 10% faster in the real world.

My day job is as a solutions architect focusing on performance of enterprise systems. We don't get down to the clock speed level though, it's more about number of cores and how they're distributed, what loads what on which machines, architecture of software, etc.

It's definitely going to be more than 10% if it's anything more than a mild overclock. My 2500K is overclocked to 4.0ghz and I'm pretty sure it's more than 10% faster than stock.

Although I do have to agree with you that I would rather have a quieter machine than a loud one. I have optimized my system to ensure that fan speed are a bare minimum. It's actually quite quiet despite overclocking my processor to 4.0ghz. CPU temperature is about 45C.

The 2700K is 3.5GHz and goes to 3.9GHz by itself. I guess going to 4GHz and letting it go up to 4.5GHz if that works would give you a boost. Remember though just because the gears spin faster it doesn't mean data gets to the CPU any faster. The CPU will be waiting millions or billions of cycles for data from disk, and probably tens of thousands of cycles for data from RAM. It's only when data gets into the Lx caches that it can really get much speed up, though I think it only really works on data in the processors registers.

I wonder how much faster it would be in the real world, say using bridge to batch 500 images from raw to jpeg?

tim wrote in post #14557557
The 2700K is 3.5GHz and goes to 3.9GHz by itself. I guess going to 4GHz and letting it go up to 4.5GHz if that works would give you a boost. Remember though just because the gears spin faster it doesn't mean data gets to the CPU any faster. The CPU will be waiting millions or billions of cycles for data from disk, and probably tens of thousands of cycles for data from RAM. It's only when data gets into the Lx caches that it can really get much speed up, though I think it only really works on data in the processors registers.

I wonder how much faster it would be in the real world, say using bridge to batch 500 images from raw to jpeg?

The 2500K have turbo as well. Don't get me wrong, the 2600K/2700K are better chips, but I don't think the premium for them is worth it. I mind as well go with an 8 core chip if I really needed the extra threads.

lsquare wrote in post #14557648
The 2500K have turbo as well. Don't get me wrong, the 2600K/2700K are better chips, but I don't think the premium for them is worth it. I mind as well go with an 8 core chip if I really needed the extra threads.

8 core chip? Are you talking about Xeon-based system or using an AMD FX chip with 8 cores?

DiMAn0684 wrote in post #14559640
8 core chip? Are you talking about Xeon-based system or using an AMD FX chip with 8 cores?

It'll be Intel base. I wouldn't touch AMD if I want the best performance. Having said that, I think the 2500K and or the Ivy Bridge equivalent provides a nice performance to price ratio. LR 4.1 absolutely flies on my setup.

lsquare wrote in post #14561096
It'll be Intel base. I wouldn't touch AMD if I want the best performance. Having said that, I think the 2500K and or the Ivy Bridge equivalent provides a nice performance to price ratio. LR 4.1 absolutely flies on my setup.

your logic is really off there. You're saying that a ~$100 price difference between i5 and i7 might not be worth it. But then you're saying that you might as well go for an 8 core CPU, which would be an Intel Xeon chip costing well over $1000...

DiMAn0684 wrote in post #14564674
your logic is really off there. You're saying that a ~$100 price difference between i5 and i7 might not be worth it. But then you're saying that you might as well go for an 8 core CPU, which would be an Intel Xeon chip costing well over $1000...

Keyword: if.

DiMAn0684, lsquare: please stop acting like children. Go forth and multiply, together.