However, we wanted to get hard evidence to support this assumption.īased on our test with both Lightroom 4 and 5, there is indeed no performance gain from having two CPUs. Before the test, we suspected from past experience that a single CPU with a higher individual clock speed would be faster than dual CPUs with a comparable combined clock speed.
However, we did conclude that you are always better off using the fastest hard drive, even if that drive is also the operating system drive.Īdobe has never claimed within their recommended hardware specifications that having two CPU processors in a computer can improve the performance in Lightroom. As long as you are working off of an internal SSD or a high-speed mechanical hard drive, whether you put the catalog and cache on the operating system drive, or a secondary SSD/high-speed mechanical data drive, it really won’t make a difference in Lightroom performance. Watch the Video of the Lightroom Performance Testingįor those of you lazy folk that aren’t interested in reading all the details of our tests, here is the “early conclusion.”įrom our tests, we didn’t note a significant difference in hard drive and catalog configurations. The new machine also gives us a chance to test it against our other high-performance Intel i7 machine to see whether Adobe Lightroom can take advantage of a dual-CPU computer as well as to test the difference in performance within Adobe Premiere. Thanks to the awesome guys and gals at Newegg, we recently had the opportunity to co-build a high-end custom dual-Intel Xeon workstation for image and video post-production work.