All of them have pretty awful performance in terms of real time sliders and waiting up to 15 seconds for a preview to process when either noise reduction is turned on together with lens sharpening. The 12 processor one does better, not because of the extra processors but including a recent AMD video card. Perhaps the extra RAM helps too.
In my opinion, the level of performance I’m getting is by design on Mac. I.e. I’m well within spec for larger files. Granted today I had a 30" monitor plugged into my MBP 17 which probably made matters worse (and shouldn’t, as I’m sure there are lots of people out there with a MBP and a large external monitor, I’m fortunate to have three solid machines at my disposal: home, office, notebook).
Mark, today I had work to do so I was measuring progress through the set which was mixed. All files were pretty slow on the MBP 17, 5DSR files slower than the others though. When I’ve compared 5DSR and A7III photos on the Mac Pro 5,1 with 12 processors and the Radeon 580X, A7III performance was okay (still an order of magnitude slower than C1 on the MBP 17) but 5DSR performance was very slow unless I didn’t add Lens Sharpness or Noise Reduction at the every end.
Apparently DxO have taken some steps to optimise the Windows version with OpenCL and left us on the Mac version without very limited GPU acceleration and/or proxy optimisation. There’s lots of us on Macs complaining about performance. Adding features without fixing performance just makes a slow application even slower. Some long time users have mentioned: DxO PhotoLab 2 is significantly slower on a Mac than Optics Pro 9. This regression really worries me as I bought into PhotoLab to enjoy a faster and more intuitive workflow. Without speed, despite the great interface and great tools, intuitive goes out the window.
The more tools, more tools brigade here who could care less about performance really grate on me. I don’t know what they need all those tools for if the tools are too slow to use effectively. We don’t need a DAM (FastRawviewer, iMatch, PhotoMechanic already exist and do the job better), we don’t need a pixel editor (Affinity Photo is cross-platform and all of $50 and infinitely more powerful than anything DxO can wedge into PhotoLab), we need a RAW processor which works quickly and intuitively.
I’m on a Windows 10 machine as I’ve mentioned in the past, and apparently on my machine Photolab thinks my old middle of the road NVidia GTX 745 is slower than my i7 processor and recommends unchecking the OpenCL option, so I’m not running with GPU optimization at all but I’m quite happy with the snappiness of the performance on my machine. I would like it to be a bit quicker, but it certainly is not slow. Judging from the many comments I’ve been reading here for months it seems that Photolab on Mac’s has significant performance problems regardless of whether the GPU performance is optimized or not.
Where is version 2.3 ? I have been waiting a long time for Panasonic LX100 Mark II support listed for PL 2.3 that was to be available in April.
Is the camera support downloadable as a PL version 2.2 module ?
This is an awesome update Marie. So many cameras and a good set of lenses. This will really make a lot of existing PhotoLab users happy and will keep new users minds open to adopting PhotoLab. To keep up with the new hardware (it’s a busy year) inspires confidence in DxO.
Great, how (except by not getting any dop’s not left behind ever)do I tell if the bug fix to some not being deleted has been included? I was told they had found a number of causes and they might be more, with out knowing if the fix in in 2.3 I will not know if there is indeed still a problem rather than just unfixed!
John, I’d recommend keeping the old copy of PhotoLab on your computer when you update. If you don’t need any of these cameras and are busy right now, I wouldn’t install this new version until a keen early installer comes back with a field report.
While none of the added cameras and lenses, or apparent bug fixes, have provided any real value to me personally, I’m pleased that a number of us seem to be happy with this new upgrade. Perhaps this will make us more patient while we wait for new and upgraded functionality in a future release. In the meantime PhotoLab Elite with FilmPack 5 and Viewpoint 3 has been my favorite software since November of 2017. I’ve tried just about everything else, but nothing else is as easy or fast to use, and the end results are as good as, or better than just about anything else out there.
2.2.3 at last. Great release. I really wish that DXO would stick to what they do best. Provide the best RAW processor for cameras on the market.
For us Photolab users/lovers having fast releases with new cameras is the most important thing after quality development processes.
Who cares what the photo magazines say: who cares about DAM. The only thing that count is top quality RAW processing and fast new cameras releases. Better one app that does one thing excellently, instead of one that does several average things.
You even managed to put Sony A6400 very quickly.