I used the fastest times I could obtain for each machine. Run-time was somewhat variable, with the first run usually the slowest.There is a slight improvement with 4 cores, but 6 or 8 cores showed no gain in my testing. PTGui does not scale much beyond 3 processor cores.PTGui is extremely disk-intensive (because 32-bit is memory limited).For the particular test shown here, I never observed more than 1750MB allocation.
#Ptgui pro 10 mac for mac#
Since PTGui Pro for Mac is a 32-bit application, it cannot use more than about 2.5GB of memory.Important things to know about PTGui Pro for Mac, which I observed while testing: When and if PTGui becomes a 64-bit application (so it can keep everything in memory), then it will really leave Photoshop CS5 in the dust. PTGui is about 3X faster than Photoshop CS5 for this same panorama (but only with a fast scratch drive, see Optimizing PTGui Pro). This test creates the same panorama as the test for Photoshop panorama. Results below are for PTGui version 8.3.10 Greater improvements might accrue for systems less well configured than my 12-core (e.g., a triple-SSD stripe for temporary files and the output file, and 48GB memory). The time is a significant improvement over version 8.3.10 (31.4 seconds), but nothing too exciting. On my 12-core 3.33GHz Mac Pro PTGui version 9.0.1 took 28 seconds, using up to 8 CPU cores and 7GB of memory. Update Jan 5, 2010: A new version of PTGUi is now 64-bit and times will not reflect what is presented here, so take the test figures below as just a reference point for relative machine performance, but one that might now vary more among the machines, though not in absolute merit. Updated - Send Feedback Related: CPU cores, Mac Pro, Macs, memory, panorama, Photoshop, RAID, SSD