Regular backups are a good idea anyways 
Nevertheless, if you’re ready to trash the DB regularly, you need not worry about restoring a DB. If you’ve used it for a long tome, it might have wandered off and list files that have moved or been deleted while DPL was closed. In such a case, you’d also restore the mismatches. PhotoLab has no built-in functionality that checks for such mismatches, but DxO might be working on it silently and come up with something in a few weeks/months/ears/millennia…
Hello,
Briefly my experience with the hardware and PL 8 and also Viewpoint5
Currently using a slightly older HP workstation with W10
Processor Xeon w2133 (6 Core), 32GB RAM, SSDs (SATA and NVME), RTX 3060 12GB RAM, PCIE 3
Monitor 2560x1600 and 1280x1600
Start time of PL8 until you can work about 20 seconds.
But then everything goes very smoothly, hardly any delays.
I suspect that loading the profiles also takes time. Currently using 3 DSLRs with about 8 different lenses. Displays about 30 profiles.
I currently have frequent approx. 50 MB RAW files from a 32Mpix DSLR in progress.
Export mostly in JPG, and often 5 to 10 images in a row. Even with Prime XD, this rarely takes more than half a minute.
I’ve been using DXO for a long time, I think DXO Optics Pro v3.x was my first version.
Apart from the slightly long start-up time, there’s hardly any unpleasant performance limitation. PL8 takes a little longer than PL7 to launch.
Prime XD is a bit faster, but I recently upgraded from a GTX 1065 to the RTX 3060.
….after 9 years w/o change I‘m upgrading to a Mac Mini M4 Pro, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, 14 Core CPU / 20 Core GPU with 2 external Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB SSD‘s plus a ZikeDrive USB4 for each SSD.
On the monitor I haven‘t finally decided yet - probably I‘ll go for an EIZO ColorEdge CS2731.
Does anyone have a suggestion on the EIZO ColorEdge CS2731? This monitor is not brandnew, but 4k (CS2740) is probably not helpful for 27 inch?
A year ago I switched from 24" FullHD to 27" 4k (CS2740), costing me a good lens. With 164 ppi at 50-60 cm distance, it’s perfect for me, no turning back. The 27" size is the maximum I would use. The drawback of 4k was that I soon switched from 16/24mpx camera combo to 45mpx
Thanks a lot! So the 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution (CS2731) was no option for you obviously. I‘m just thinking because of some people mentioned the size of the text in the menues is very small with 4k…
After Win11 installation, I switched the setting System->Display->Scale from recommended 150% to 175%. No problems with that so far, even with my old eyes. It’s a personal thing, so better check yourself.
Indeed my eyes are also 50+ So I will then also look deeper into the 4k version.
I had the EIZO CG242W and an LG monitor together on the system.
I replaced this with an EIZO FexScan EV3895 two years ago.
Features: 37.5 inches, 24:10 Curved Ultrawide shade.
3840 x 1600 pixels, 111 ppi
Docking function via USB-C
KVM switch function
I am currently running the W10 with 2560 x 1600 as main screen and 1280 x 1600 as second screen
Display setting of Windows is 100%
I have no problem with the display of PL 8. On the right side I can show almost all panels.
I think you lose projects.
I tested Photolab 8’s Deeprime XD2s on both my five year old Win PC (i7-8700 CPU, 16GB memory, AMD 6650XT GPU) and the new Mac Mini M4 (24GB/512GB) using the Egypt and Nikon (5 images) raw files. To my big surprise, here are the results (both fresh install):
M4 Pro (Neural engine): Egypt 24s, 5 images Nikon 1 minute 20s.
M4 Pro (GPU): Egypt 22s, 5 images Nikon 1 minute 12s.
Win PC: Egypt 14s, 5 images Nikon 27s.
obviously still room for (performance) improvement for Apple‘s M-processors 
Something odd is going on here. From the results in the Deepprime Processing spreadsheet, the base Apple M1 has essentially the same export performance as your old Win PC. The M4 Pro should be much faster than the M1 from 2020…
Indeed it seems PL8 has not been optimized for the M4 yet.
@foto16 , @CHPhoto The following is from a batch run of 60 Egypt images (1 [M]aster and 59 VCs), VCs because they take a lot less space and work to create and manage.
The hardware is not particularly exotic, a Ryzen 9 5900X (Win 10) but matched with an RTX 3060 and the image resides on an NVME and exports are to the same NVME and the results are
So we have the CPU being throttled by the lack of GPU power and we get 516 seconds for 60 exports, i.e. 8.6 seconds per export with 3 export copies.
The 5900X has no onboard GPU (iGPU) so the 3060 GPU is handling the graphics output for the monitor which is expending a little GPU processor to keep those graphs and counts going, it mainly has a GPU memory impact but the 3060 is a 12GB card so no real problem there.
If anyone wants the DOP for the their own timing runs I have the 60 image DOP (easily tailored for less or even more images) and another DOP for a 10 image run.
