PC Upgrade - minimum Intel gen for good Lightroom performance ?

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I've been getting by with a i7-7700 pc with 32gb but on long editing sessions it's costing me wasted time using slow hardware.

My research tells me most of what Lightroom does it CPU bound and single core so new multi-core later generations aren't that beneficial.

What generation would you suggest moving to for me to really see a difference ? Did domething change with the intel architecture at Gen 12 and would that help lightroom ?

It's a pain migrating to a new PC so want to ensure this gives me a few yeasr reasonably performace. Budget is around £400 for a second hand system so was thinking something along the lines of :- HP Pro 400 G9 Desktop PC Core i7-12700

Thanks in advance,
Mike
 
I've just upgraded from an i5 3rd gen to an i5 9th gen and the processor is faster yes but the main speed difference has been the 2GB NVME ver. 2 SSD. Both the variants had 32GB RAM with a GeForce 1660S GPU.

To be honest the 3rd gen system was fine to use for Photoshop & Lightroom, however being a M4/3 user my files are only 20MP.
 
12th gen should be OK. The big performance gain will be however in a GPU. It doesn't need to be very fancy but having decent one will be a big boost.

mikeyw said:
It's a pain migrating to a new PC
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It is actually not if you transfer the drive or clone it.

windows is pretty clever these days. I even swapped all AMD setup for all intel and it just booted and kept on working
 
LongLensPhotography said:
12th gen should be OK. The big performance gain will be however in a GPU. It doesn't need to be very fancy but having decent one will be a big boost.


It is actually not if you transfer the drive or clone it.

windows is pretty clever these days. I even swapped all AMD setup for all intel and it just booted and kept on working
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Thanks - is GPU more important than CPU ? The internet is so conflicting at times.....
 
mikeyw said:
Thanks - is GPU more important than CPU ? The internet is so conflicting at times.....
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I have i7 12th gen laptop and 13th gen desktop with 3060ti. I'd say the difference is pretty wild. It's not just Denoise: previews, export, masking
 
Lighroom seems to make use of both CPU and GPU and unlike Photoshop seems run faster on multi-core CPUs. I don't think you can really seperate one from another. Saying that features such as denoise are definately GPU limited, I upgraded from a Nvida P1000 to a RTX 4070 and my denoise processing time fell from 300 to 9 seconds...
 
I'm using a 2018 vintage PC with i5-8400 processor and 32GB of RAM. It's had a few updates since I bought it (more RAM, additional drives, etc.) but the one thing that made a big improvement when editing in LRC was adding an Nvidia RTX3060 graphics card last year. Lightroom is set to automatically switch between CPU and GPU for processing.

The PC performs much much much much better than my Honor laptop with an i5-10210U CPU, 32GB RAM and Nvidia MX350 GPU.
 
Thanks - think i'm going to try and find a 12th gen pc and put a decent card in it.
 
mikeyw said:
What is the check?
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There is a list of supported CPU's for running Windows 11 - "supported" as in Microsoft have tested W11 with that processor. They don't guarantee that a processor not on the list will run W11 correctly/at all.
 
Bristolian said:
There is a list of supported CPU's for running Windows 11 - "supported" as in Microsoft have tested W11 with that processor. They don't guarantee that a processor not on the list will run W11 correctly/at all.
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Ah i see - planning on going to gen 10 absolute minimum so should be fine.
 
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