Will I see meaningful benefits in processing speed?
Hi everyone,
I am looking to purchase a new iMac to improve the speed at which I can edit photographs in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. I work as a professional photographer and edit thousands of images a month.
I currently use the following specification MacBook Pro
Processor: 2.6 GHz-6-Core Intel Core i7
Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro 5300M 4GB ,Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
Memory: 16 GB 266 MHz DDR4
I am looking at purchasing an iMac with the following specs:
- Apple M3 chip with 8‑core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 10‑core GPU and 16‑core Neural Engine
- 512GB SSD storage
- 16GB unified memory
It may seem like a stupid question but could I expect to see a signatificant improvement in the speed at which specifically Adobe lightroom might be able to run and or process images with this kind of upgrade?
Thanks for your time.
Ben
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.4