Photoediting!

snips86x · 13 Apr 2013 at 07:38

For you who are photo-editing, would you recommend 16gb/32gb RAM? I work with RAW files and also to the odd video encoding.

Would there be much difference? Would it be noticeable?

Mp4 · 13 Apr 2013 at 07:49

I have 16GB with no issues, id say its overkill but if you can afford an extra £100 or whatever go to 32GB

Columbo · 13 Apr 2013 at 08:20

With 8gb already you will notice absolutely no difference at all.

I did exactly the because the ram was so cheap but to be honest its made no difference what so ever to me personally.

snips86x · 13 Apr 2013 at 08:45

ManCuBuS said:
With 8gb already you will notice absolutely no difference at all.

I did exactly the because the ram was so cheap but to be honest its made no difference what so ever to me personally.

I'm moving to a completely different platform (Intel x79) and with 8gb currently, I do notice slowness when it comes to developing via LR4.

theheyes · 13 Apr 2013 at 10:32

But is that down to the RAM? Are you monitoring your usage? LR can stutter a little in places regardless. I edited for years on a box with just 2GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to 12GB of RAM and yes it is better but not a six-fold improvement.

snips86x · 13 Apr 2013 at 11:09

theheyes said:
But is that down to the RAM? Are you monitoring your usage? LR can stutter a little in places regardless. I edited for years on a box with just 2GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to 12GB of RAM and yes it is better but not a six-fold improvement.

I dont think the limit is solely down to the RAM, CPU also. I'm upgrading my entire system and have RAM limits so trying to work out which would be better. I think I'll go 16 on the safe side as I'm not just photo-editing by encoding also.

mrk · 13 Apr 2013 at 11:31

16GB is 'normally' never fully utilised even half way on my machine editing 5D3 RAW files in Lightroom with Photoshop open at the same time.

It's beyond what both will need for the casual photographer but I have had instances where Photoshop has consumed almost all of my RAM as I loaded up and began tweaking stitched panoramas of massive resolutions.