I read in a separate article that the CPU in new Macs will have memory on-chip? 8 GB to start with, and 16 GB later, with no possibility of expansion? Just askin'. That'll be fine for most users, but not for power users. (I'm a heavy user of Adobe CC apps and have 56 GB installed.)
If the above is true, I wonder if they'll go with some kind of NUMA architecture in their very-high-end Macs.
Indeed. I use 48Gb on my iMac and have a 32Gb MacBook Pro. Both are used for lots of Photoshop work. With a 48Mp image each layer takes up lots of memory. One stacked macro image I have been working on recently takes 2.1Gb of Disk space. 38 photos stacked of a Giraffe Necked Weevil.
I often right click on an image in Lightroom to "edit in Photoshop", and often have several photos open at the same time. Also, creating panoramas or doing stacking in Lightroom seems to take a lot of memory. Statistics routinely show 2/3 memory allocated.
A problem I'm having at the moment is with the medium-high-end Nvidia card failing. With Lightroom and/or Photoshop and a tutorial open at the same time, all using the gpu for acceleration, I frequently have the video crash (black screen) although the sound continues. I'm beginning to suspect I'm running out of memory on the video card. Which goes to show, memory is key.
Memory on-chip? (Score:2)
I read in a separate article that the CPU in new Macs will have memory on-chip? 8 GB to start with, and 16 GB later, with no possibility of expansion? Just askin'. That'll be fine for most users, but not for power users. (I'm a heavy user of Adobe CC apps and have 56 GB installed.)
If the above is true, I wonder if they'll go with some kind of NUMA architecture in their very-high-end Macs.
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Indeed. I use 48Gb on my iMac and have a 32Gb MacBook Pro. Both are used for lots of Photoshop work. With a 48Mp image each layer takes up lots of memory. One stacked macro image I have been working on recently takes 2.1Gb of Disk space. 38 photos stacked of a Giraffe Necked Weevil.
16Gb of RAM is so 2012.
Re:Memory on-chip? (Score:2)
Agreed.
I often right click on an image in Lightroom to "edit in Photoshop", and often have several photos open at the same time. Also, creating panoramas or doing stacking in Lightroom seems to take a lot of memory. Statistics routinely show 2/3 memory allocated.
A problem I'm having at the moment is with the medium-high-end Nvidia card failing. With Lightroom and/or Photoshop and a tutorial open at the same time, all using the gpu for acceleration, I frequently have the video crash (black screen) although the sound continues. I'm beginning to suspect I'm running out of memory on the video card. Which goes to show, memory is key.