What the heck, how about a DPP benchmark?

For those of us dinosaurs who are either content with, or occasionally run, DPP.

Grab the 15 RAW files found at http://www.photography​blog.com …00d_review/samp​le_images/

And batch them with DPP.
Save as Jpg, quality 10.
Try to get a CPU monitoring graph of some sort.

AMD X6 1045T mild OC:
2.962GHz with 4~6 cores loaded
3.792 GHz turbo with 1~3 cores active.
DPP 1.13.0.1

4GB, XP Sp3, all files running off a Crucial C300 SSD.

Time: 128 seconds.

As you can see, DPP doesn't do terribly well with all the cores.

https://dl.dropboxuser​content.com/u/60092457​/misc/DPP-1.jpg
https://dl.dropboxuser​content.com/u/60092457​/misc/DPP-2.jpg

What is DPP, is that like something that comes on a floppy disk or cassette tape? :P

Man, I'm too lazy to individually download 15 files. If you can provide an easy ZIP link, I'll play.

Known issue. Fix: Batch convert the files in more then one batch.

http://macperformanceg​uide.com/Optimizing-DPP.html

My Laptop:
Intel Core i5-560M (Stock)
Win 7 Pro x64
8GB RAM
OCZ Agility 4 SSD on SATA II (Source and Destination)

3m08s

NOTE: I had a million (OK, approx 300) firefox tabs open when I ran this

RileyNZL wrote in post #16121124
What is DPP, is that like something that comes on a floppy disk or cassette tape? :P

It's a rather useful / necessary program!

While it may not impress the Gear Dweeb crowd, it does get the job done.

René Damkot wrote in post #16122110
Known issue. Fix: Batch convert the files in more then one batch.

http://macperformanceg​uide.com/Optimizing-DPP.html

Yea, that simple tweak would help a lot.

By dividing the queue into two parallel batches, I got the time down to 91 seconds.
Three groups: 80 seconds.

i was searching for DPP sucks and found this thread

with my recent upgrade to a 6D, and old CS4 i can't easily open raw files, so i've been using DNG or DPP. surprisingly DPP is much slower than converting.

anyway, i guess i better look this over in the morning.

cheers!

Finally got around to running this on my desktop machine:

i7-3770k, stock
Win 7 x64
16GB RAM
SSD system drive
Files on 5x1GB RAID5
DPP 3.12.52

95 seconds (1 batch)
65 seconds (8 + 7 in 2 batches)

FYI--With lens profile corrections (distortion + vignetting) enabled, LR4.4 does it in 59 seconds.

--Greg