![]() ![]() A true workstation offers no performance benefit here. I'd agree, get a good gaming PC and call it a day. Gaming machines are hugely capable these days but they must be priced cheaply enough for for their typical customers so this is where the best bang for the buck is by a long way. In any case, workstations are aimed at a certain wealthy demographic. Most programmers still don't know how to write multi-threaded code properly so as usual the hardware is still way ahead of the software. I know that Adobe makes use of multiple cores only for certain complex operations but most of the time you are still running single threaded using a single cpu (so your clock speed matters more than the number of cores most of the time). ![]() LR likes fast CPU and fast memory more than top-end graphics card.Īnd I think that most software is still single threaded these days so large numbers of cores are quite unnecessary unless you want to score well in those completely artificial "cpu benchmark" tests Make sure you have fast storage, NVME SSD would be best. No need to go for the top end graphics card, something like a GTX 1060 is fine for Lightroom and Photoshop. Workstations seem (to me) to be aimed mostly at people with money to burn and based on what I am reading actually offer minimal improvements in performance for a lot of extra $$$$ (and sometimes they are even slower depending on the "benchmarks"). Gaming PC's these days are incredibly capable machines and probably completely fine for my needs.īut I'd appreciate your comments and feedback on what I might be missing here if anything? I'm looking at $4-5000 for a workstations versus $2-3000 for a kickass gaming machine. So as someone with a considerable amount of professional experience in the software world I'm having a very tough time justifying the additional expense of buying a workstation over a cheaper gaming PC. I only boot up and sit at my (VERY aging) PC for work usually on Photoshop, Lightroom and occasionally some video stuff.īut my PC is getting very old now (don't ask) and it's like molasses in January for performance. I do most of my web surfing these days on my iPhone and my iPad. ![]() I'm certain this question has been asked may times before. ![]()
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