Hi everyone!
I'm looking at building a new PC for a project during which especially the "align photos" stage should go very fast - data will be coming in steadily during the day, and images should be aligned by the evening.
Since the "align photos" stage appears to depend mostly on CPU, I'm thinking of making a build with the Intel Core i7 5960X CPU, as this seems to be the best performing i7 according to the Anandtech PhotoScan benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/1057 Currently I'm using a laptop with an Intel Core i7 4700MQ CPU (4 cores, 8 threads, up to 3.4ghz). My question is
how much of a performance boost I can expect when I upgrade to a system with the i7 5960X?
Currently alignment of ca 500 images at "low" (pair preselection disabled) takes roughly 2 hours. Can I expect this time to be cut to half? To a third? Any information would be very welcome!
Cheers,
Thomas