![]() ![]() Most enthusiasts and professional photographers prefer Lightroom Classic over its cloud-based brother Lightroom CC, and Capture One 21 – Lightroom Classic’s biggest rival – showed significant performance gains in almost all categories with the release of version 14.2, optimized for Apple Silicon. There is a lot at stake for Adobe in Lightroom Classic. ![]() Photoshop, on the other hand, saw a massive increase in performance when it was optimized for Apple Silicon, which had to blow us away with its GPU, filter, and especially its Photo Merge scores in Puget Systems’ PugetBench benchmark. When Lightroom for M1 was released in December 2020, we found meager performance gains, far beyond what M1 was already able to achieve with the Rosetta 2 emulation of the Intel version. ![]() Our experience with Apple Silicon-optimized apps from Adobe is 50/50 so far. The latest version of Lightroom Classic was up to 25 percent faster on the M1 than on our more expensive Intel-based Mac. Could Apple’s M1 processor give photographers a big boost in performance? In short: yes. Our hopes were high for a program that was so notoriously sluggish. This morning Adobe unveiled the long-awaited version of Lightroom Classic, which is fully optimized for Apple Silicon devices, and we had the chance to test it out before it was released. ![]()
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