![]() Any test that makes claims about Aperture’s processing speed is worthless unless it verifies there is adequate memory. I noticed that Aperture by itself was using about 800MB of real memory (mapped to about 1.2GB of virtual memory). Benchmarks using a large number of the same raw files would be needed to make a precise comparison to other machines and converters, but I have no doubt that Aperture would come out near the top of the heap, if not the very top. ![]() Aperture does use all 4 CPU cores fully, albeit very briefly, which must contribute to the fast performance. Compare that to the 7.2 seconds for converting a NEF on a dual 2.5GHz PowerMac using Nikon Capture (see Nikon Capture-Speed and Stability). Without a doubt Aperture has the most attractive user interface (by far) every produced for a raw-file converter (though Adobe Lightroom, still in beta, might become a competitor in that regard).Īperture on the Quad is notably faster than anything I’ve seen before, roughly 2-3 seconds to convert a raw D2X NEF or 1DsMII CR2 to a 16-bit TIF (no specific timings were done). The results will become part of the Raw-file Converters article. Today I performed some raw conversions using Aperture 1.0.1 at a friend’s house, using a PowerMac G5 Quad with 4.5 GB of memory, and a single (non-RAID) drive.
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