
The short answer is “yes,” in Pye’s testing, the PC had a significant advantage in several categories. It’s just meant to pit a very powerful Apple computer against a very powerful custom built PC and see which of the two is best for editing photos in the notoriously slow Lightroom Classic.įor this comparison, Pye pits an iMac Pro with a 3.2GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon W Processor, 64GB 2666Mhz DDR4 RAM, 2TB SSD, and Radeon Pro Vega 64 w/ 16GB of dedicated memory against a custom-built PC from Puget Systems sporting an Intel Core i9 9900K 3.6GHz 8-Core processor, 64GB of 2666Mhz DDR4 RAM, 500GB Operating System SSD, 2TB Secondary SSD, and NVIDIA GeForce RTOX 2070 Founders Edition graphics card with 8GB dedicated memory. It’s important to note that this is not a straight-up Mac vs PC “shootout” that takes every variable into account vis-a-vis operating system, upgradability, etc. Pye Jirsa over at SLR Lounge recently published a Mac vs PC comparison that answers an important question for photographers: which is better for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, a powerful iMac Pro or an equivalent custom-built PC?
