#WHAT IS TURBO BOOST RAM FULL#

more cores is the more ramp-up time for your process (i.e. Spend twice as much on your hardware, and it's dubious that you will get twice the performance gain.) So where is the cut-off?īig problem w. Quadcore, like I have now makes sense, and a hexcore system could be helpful.Īlong with the diminishing returns for performance.

#WHAT IS TURBO BOOST RAM FULL#

So CPUs don't switch to turbo speed, UNLESS they are running at full capacity? (Like cars that have turbochargers?)įor someone who converts < 20 raw files that vast majority of the time, don't see the advantage to going core-crazy. AFAIK most photo editing programs don't utilize more than 4 cores, if that. The boost speed for all cores at once is much, much lower.Īn 'equally positioned' (for lack of a better term) CPU with fewer cores will have both higher base clocks and a higher turbo. That's just the thing though - the highest turbo is only for one core, or 2 at most at a time. In addition to the cost of CPU and motherboard that will require a much higher investment in high end solid state storage devices of whatever flavor. If you really want a multi-core monster you might wait for the test results from Threadripper which is promising higher clock speeds and more PCIe lanes at a much lower price point than Intel. Intel only delivers multiple PCIe lanes, that which allows high end solid state storage to work at full speed, at exceedingly high price points. If you are working on raw files from a 37-100mp sensor in a big color box that is a lot of data to push through one CPU at a time and to read/write off storage. If you have a very large file you may perceive a difference using all SSD storage, particularly high end M2, when accessing storage. So while you can easily tell an SSD booted faster than a mechanical drive or a faster/multicore CPU shaved minutes off a video render you are not going to be overwhelmed by even moderate CPU speed differences when working on a layer in Photoshop, maybe if you habitually blend giant files into panoramas. No matter how 'fast' the CPU mere humans can only read, type, move a mouse and mentally process information at a fixed speed. Look it up as that is technically the answer you seem to be seeking. In those tests peak CPU clock speed always trumps CPU core count, all else being equal. PS and LR largely use one core, the GPU acceleration features are quite modest, and most Photoshop CPU tests use scripts that resemble unattended video rendering more than how mere humans use the program. I overclock my CPU because I can but, honestly, it hardly matters for Photoshop, nor did the move from Sandy Bridge to Skylake.

Just like RAM use it is not what most people believe.Īnother way to answer your question is to either overclock your current CPU or read what users perceive about the overclocking experience compared to tests that demonstrate micro or nanosecond differences. You can watch in real time how the speed of your current CPU varies with tasks. The real answer in terms of what humans can perceive is that those CPU numbers do not much matter over a wider range than most people think, sizzle vs steak.

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