A whole system upgrade is probably not necessary.
AI has shifted processing requirements heavily towards the GPU in most photography applications. Use AI to analyse your system for DXO Photolab performance.
AI mode in Chrome or ChatGPT works well.
List your components; be as specific as you can. I copy and paste from a Word document, which makes updating easier.
Here is a sample query. Edit to suit your situation, include other programmes you use.
Amateur Photographer PC. Files Sony a7 IV RAW. Editing DXO PhotoLab 9.6 with DeepPRIME XD3 .
This is my current system.
GPU Graphics Card
CPU Processor
RAM
Motherboard
Drives
PSU
Windows version
Suggest a cost-effective upgrade path. Include optimisation of both Windows and DXO to maximise efficiency.
Be mindful of current UK RAM pricing. I have a budget of £
Thanks for taking a look at this, I’ll be honest I’m sceptical as my system is a little old across the board (11 years or so now) - functional - but I feel like upgrading any one component would only really make sense in the context of a system-wide update. Happy to be wrong, mind you.
You mentioned “this is my current system” but I don’t see any specs?
As for mine:
GPU Graphics Card - nVidia 1080Ti CPU Processor - Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 RAM - 32GB DDR3 Motherboard - Asus H97-PRO GAME Drives - Samsung 500 GB 850 EVO (various others, but this is where PhotoLab is installed, and photos I’m currently editing sit) PSU - EVGA Super NOVA 850W Gold PSU Windows version - Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Everything in the above list was purchased ~2015, except the GPU which was some time later (but second hand, and I know that although it’s a tank, it’s no spring chicken).
I have not read all the comments, but I had the same problem–at least when exporting a tiff file. Talked with support for over 2 months. The best suggestion was to use DeepPrime 3 noise reduction rather than DeepPrime XD3. That brought the tiff processing time from over 5 minutes down to 30 seconds.
I export to NIK for most of my photos for local editing, and NIK needs a tiff to operate from.
There were some other suggested changes about my graphics card and processor but those details did not help as much. I still have a ticket open to DXO regarding this.
My computer is a 2 yr old Lenovo Yoga 9+ and has the following specs:
And what was this suggested changes? I’m quite curious!
Also, what was the exported photos megapixel? As export performance is Mpx / second related.
As i check (Google AI) this CPU has this iGPU inside: “The Intel Arc Xe-LPG 128EU is a highly capable integrated graphics processor (iGPU) featured in Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake/Arrow Lake) processors. It delivers entry-level discrete graphics performance roughly matching older dedicated cards like the Nvidia GTX 1650 or desktop Arc A380”
That’s what I thought when I started using PL9 - my PC is eight years old and simply can’t cope with many of the AI masking features. But although the sophisticated selection tools are beyond the reach of my hardware, there are some masking features that do work and which are very useful - the Auto masking brush, for example, does a remarkably good job of only masking things I want to affect. So PL 9 is a good product for me, even on old kit.
