Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic v1.0 now available

Designed for a broad spectrum of users, Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic is designed to provide clear insights into how systems perform in various environments.

Puget Bench Labs team continues its mission to bring real-world performance testing to popular applications and platforms across multiple creative industries, and the launch of Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic v1.0 is the latest example of its commitment.

Following extensive beta testing and feedback from users, Puget Systems Labs is releasing this November an entirely rebuilt benchmark with an emphasis on stability, consistency, and compatibility with the latest versions of Lightroom Classic. Designed for a broad spectrum of users, from wedding photographers managing thousands of RAW images, to professional studio retouchers who process high resolution portraits, to hardware reviewers analyzing system performance, Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic is designed to provide clear insights into how systems perform in various environments.

New features of Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic include:

• Full integration into the Puget Bench for Creators application, including the Puget Bench Result Browser;
• Support for both Windows and MacOS;
• Expanded camera format testing and AI tool coverage;
• Improved consistency between benchmark runs;
• Enhanced logging and automation options for commercial users.

Here is the information shared by Puget Systems about how Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic works:

Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic runs directly on top of a user’s installed Lightroom Classic software. Instead of approximating workloads through synthetic methods, it uses real photographs and replicates real workflows, producing results that accurately reflect how a system performs in practice. Because the benchmark operates within Lightroom Classic itself, the benchmark automatically accounts for software changes, whether those changes include new hardware support, performance optimizations or regressions introduced by bugs.

Results from Puget Bench benchmark tests are a core feature in many of the articles published by Puget Systems. They are also free to download and run for personal use, with paid and press licenses available for commercial use, or for access to advanced features like CLI automation, local logging and beta releases.

Camera Formats Tested in Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic

The new Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic is designed to test a variety of tasks. At its core, the goal is to measure how well a system handles photos from different types of cameras. While no benchmark can test every possible format, Puget Systems Labs focused on four cameras that cover the widest range of users possible, including:

• Canon EOS R5 Mark II (.CR3 45 MP)
• Panasonic LUMIX S1R11 (.RW2 44 MP)
• Sony Alpha 1 II (.ARW 50 MP)
• Nikon Z8 (.NEF 47 MP)

Testing the AI Features of Lightroom Classic

In addition to testing various camera formats, Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic also measures performance for many of the new AI features in Lightroom Classic, including:

• Select Sky
• Select Subject
• Reflection Removal
• Denoise
• Enhance Details
• Super Resolution

These tests provide valuable insight into how a systems’ CPU, GPU and overall system configuration affect Lightroom Classic’s most demanding modern tools.

What is Puget Bench for Creators: How Does it Work?

Puget Bench for Creators has quickly become the industry’s most relied upon guidelines for testing and understanding hardware and software performance in creative workflows. It is designed to benchmark professional workloads in the most common video editing, photography, VFX, and motion graphics applications.

The benchmarks run directly on the host application, instead of relying on artificial or synthetic workloads, to give the most real-world results possible. Users can rely on the Puget Bench for Creators desktop app as a good way to ensure that systems are running as expected, with no abnormal showdowns or issues.

Puget Bench for Creators is available for Windows and MacOS, with benchmarks for Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects, Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, and with today’s announcement, Lightroom Classic.

Puget Bench benchmarks are focused on the most popular and common workflows used by professionals. They are also 100% free for end users, with a license only necessary for commercial use or advanced features like local logging and CLI support.

Follow the link for more details, pricing and information on how to access Puget Bench for Lightroom Classic.