Hardware for making PANORAMA on Lightroom Classic

[gugamillet]

Hi there, I use to make lots of panoramas in LR and it realy takes lots of time to each one of them.

I incresed the size of my SSD and it helped a little, not to make the panoramics faster, but to don't crash in the middle. 

What is more inportant, RAM meory or processor?

Thank you in advance.

[Sameer K]

Welcome to the Lightroom Classic community. I'll need more info to help you figure this out. Please go to Lightroom Classic > Help > System Info > Copy & paste here.

What type of images do you work with? JPEG or RAW? How large are the usual outputs? The recommended specs on our page will somewhat help you with this: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/system-requirements.html

Exceeding or meeting this will help. However, before purchasing upgrades, please invest time in benchmarks & testing feedback on the internet with hardware configs that fall into your budget.

Thanks!

Sameer K

[gugamillet]

Hi, sory for the delay. Things are crazy around here...

And Mery Chrismas!!!!

I work with raw images. The outputs depends on how many photographs I am stacking together for the panorama and if thes photographs came from a 24Mp camera or a 42Mp camera.

Here is the system info for the macbook air:

Lightroom Classic version: 12.1 [ 202212072312-d7ab524b ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en-BR
Operating system: Mac OS 11
Version: 11.6.5 [20G527]
Application architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 1,8GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 8.192,0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 8.192,0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 1.122,1 MB (13,6%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 7.869,4 MB
Memory cache size: 0,0MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 15.1 [ 1329 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 3
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 0MB / 4095MB (0%)
Camera Raw real memory: 1MB / 8192MB (0%)
Standard Preview Size: 1440 pixels
Displays: 1) 1440x900

Graphics Processor Info:
Metal: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics 6000
Init State: GPU for Display supported by default
User Preference: GPU for Display Enabled

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: /Users/guga/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom Catalog-v12.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/guga/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Flickr
3) FUJIFILM GFX Tether Plugin PRO
4) Leica Tether Plugin
5) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

[gugamillet]

This is from the windows computer. Much more hardwere power, but not much more RAM memory, not much faster them the macbook air.

Lightroom Classic version: 12.1 [ 202212072312-d7ab524b ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition

Version: 10.0.19044

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 12

Processor speed: 2,9GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

CPU Utilisation: 0,0%

Built-in memory: 16253,3 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 215,5MB / 8038,0MB (2%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 16253,3 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 815,1 MB (5,0%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 1003,5 MB

GDI objects count: 675

USER objects count: 1993

Process handles count: 3225

Memory cache size: 0,0MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 15.1 [ 1329 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 0MB / 8126MB (0%)

Camera Raw real memory: 0MB / 16253MB (0%)

System DPI setting: 96 DPI

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Standard Preview Size: 1920 pixels

Displays: 1) 1920x1080

Input types: Multitouch: No, Integrated touch: No, Integrated pen: No, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No



Graphics Processor Info: 

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (31.0.15.2756)

Init State: GPU for Export supported by default

User Preference: Auto



Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic

Library Path: C:\Users\gugam\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog.lrcat

Settings Folder: C:\Users\gugam\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom



Installed Plugins: 

1) AdobeStock

2) Flickr

3) Nikon Tether Plugin



Config.lua flags: None



Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de

	Device : 2489

	Subsystem : 88501043

	Revision : a1

	Video Memory : 8038

Adapter #2: Vendor : 1414

	Device : 8c

	Subsystem : 0

	Revision : 0

	Video Memory : 0

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 1024

AudioDeviceName: $$$/dvaaudiodevice/SystemDefaultAndEffectiveDeviceName=System Default - Fones de ouvido (H4)#{comment}DVAAU-4201250: Open the audio hardware preferences page.

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 48000

Build: LR5x19

Direct2DEnabled: false

GL_ACCUM_ALPHA_BITS: 16

GL_ACCUM_BLUE_BITS: 16

GL_ACCUM_GREEN_BITS: 16

GL_ACCUM_RED_BITS: 16

GL_ALPHA_BITS: 0

GL_BLUE_BITS: 8

GL_DEPTH_BITS: 24

GL_GREEN_BITS: 8

GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 32768

GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 4

GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 32768,32768

GL_RED_BITS: 8

GL_RENDERER: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.60 NVIDIA

GL_STENCIL_BITS: 8

GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation

GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 527.56

GPUDeviceEnabled: false

OGLEnabled: true

[Conrad C]

What is more inportant, RAM meory or processor?

By @gugamillet

For panoramas specifically, I think memory is more important. Most Lightroom Classic image editing works fine on a computer with 16GB memory, but when I watch memory usage, panoramas and other multiple-image operations can result in more than 20GB of memory usage because they must hold and process multiple complete images in memory at one time. On a computer with less memory, it should still complete it without crashing because it will use virtual memory. (A crash might be possible if the amount of unused computer storage is so low that there is no room to create a large enough virtual memory swap file.)

The processor is less important. Any processor listed in the system requirements should be able to do a panorama merge without crashing. The only difference between processors is how fast it gets done.

[gugamillet]

This make a lot of sense to me.

I work in two differente computers, a macbook air 2018 and a Windows PC much better them the macbook but with only 16Gb RAM (macbook air with 8Gb Ram). The difference in speed for panoramas is not very big.