PC Processors

[jlarysz]

I have a system that's about 8 months old. It comprises:

Motherboard:     Gigabyte X670E Master

CPU:                      Ryzen 7950X 3D (16 processors)

Graphics Card:    Radeon RX7700 XT

Memory:              32 Gbytes

The system has all solid state memory inside in 4 M.2 memory sticks and one external USB spinning drive.

I'm processing about 100,000 images tin 5000 collections through Lightroom 5.7, writing adjusted images to the USB hard drive. It's taking days. The job starts well enough, but each image takes longer and longer. It doesn't help to stop and re-start Lightroom, picking up the process where I left off. There's plenty of memory and storage available.

The CPU is not tuned at all as yet and I don't understand the options in the "Ryzen Master" program. Does anyone have advice to offer?

[johnnyenglish · Accepted solution]

Hi, even though the 7950X3D is not what you should pick if you mean content creation and productivity, for that the 7950X would do much better. The 7950X3D is no slouch.

My question is: why are you assuming its the CPU fault? Have you benchmark it using other tools to see if its lagging behind?

Another thing, lightroom does leans more towards GPU and you have a 7700XT with 12gb VRAM, that can be a limiting factor.

What kind of nvme do you have, DRAMless by any chance? Whats the Gen? Keep in mind that with 4 M.2 slots taken. The lanes are cut in half, but for that you need to consult your board users manual about slot population.

Now an example, I have a 1tb external drive nvme gen 4 (an affordable WD green) very fast but DRAMless. Its snappy even when fetching assets for video editing but with time and too much sustained data, it will slow down to a crawl while the internal much more expensive model wil sustain its speed for longer.