ULTIMATE TEST: Is Affinity Photo FASTER than Photoshop? Surprising Results

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hello and welcome to this episode of

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danny's kids affinity photo is one of

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the best alternatives to photoshop

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especially for people who can't justify

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the ten dollars a month subscription for

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lightroom and photoshop CC on an

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affinity photos website they advertise

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doctor software is built on rock solid

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foundations with principles of

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performance stability and lack of blow i

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did some quick test to see how affinity

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photo compares to photoshop performance

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wise so its affinity photo fashion and

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photoshop let's find out i'll be testing

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the software on two computers one is the

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mid-range laptop with an i5 cpu eight

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gigs of ram SSD and integrated graphics

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the second is a desktop with an i7 6700

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k processor 64 gigs ram and nvme SSD and

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an nvidia 980 TI video card let's start

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off with the startup times on both

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systems startup times were faster for

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photoshop by a couple seconds it's not

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much and you probably won't notice the

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difference unless you're purposely

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looking for it honor that's where we

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open 20 files photoshop was flashed by

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six seconds in a mid-range laptop on the

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desktop affinity photo was fast by two

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seconds something that i noticed with

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affinity photo is that it looks like

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it's frozen but it's not it's just not

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showing the images esther being loaded

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and unlike in photoshop you can't press

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a skate key to cancel reloading in fact

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if you try doing that it'll give you a

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popup message saying that you're not

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allowed to cancel or close affinity

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photo until already photos have been

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loaded the interface performance on both

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is great i don't experience any lag or

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slowness but affinity photo feels

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snappier i use that term because it's

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not actually faster it just feels faster

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in photoshop things like the menus and

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zooming in and out of a document are

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animated in a Finnish photo it has no

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animations so things appear

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instantaneously which makes it feel more

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snappy and I prefer that more

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you'll also notice that affinity photo

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renders a photo from the center outwards

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while in Photoshop it doesn't row by row

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from the top left to bottom right

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affinity photos way of rendering makes

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more sense because objects are more

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typically in the middle then it is on

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the top left corner now all of these

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things seem small and minor and I have

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to admit it is well I just want to show

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you what affinity photo does to make the

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interface feel a little bit snappier in

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most cases filters in nappanee photo are

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noticeably faster than photoshop a lofty

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filters already render very fast in both

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software but there are some filters with

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huge differences such as its doom or

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radial blur filter in affinity photo it

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renders the effect immediately while in

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Photoshop it takes quite a while for it

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to finish the biggest difference where I

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see Photoshop performing better is with

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the raw editor on a fast desktop the

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developer sauna in affinity photo works

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great and you don't really notice much

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of a difference compared to photoshop's

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camera raw filter but on a slower

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mid-range laptop the difference is big

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for example when adjusting exposure

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photo shops camera photo renders the

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effect instantly and it feels very

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smooth while with affinity photos

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develop persona you can see it's

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struggling to keep up affinity photo

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uses significantly less ram than

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photoshop on a fresh start with no

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documents opened affinity photo used 285

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megabytes of ram while photoshop use 865

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megabytes with 20 files open ram usage

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increased significantly for both but

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again with affinity photo using less ram

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than photoshop both affinity photo and

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photoshop support GPU acceleration free

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ram usage and affinity photo is

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significantly less in photoshop

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if you don't know what vrm is here's a

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quick overview if you're a missing

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memory for your GPU and it's different

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than Rama on your motherboard you can

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have the fastest cpu plenty of system

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ram and a solid state drive but things

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will get laggy if you don't have enough

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feed RAM and that is the main reason why

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people blame lightroom photoshop or

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whatever app they're using for being

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slow and laggy they have a nice computer

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but the GP only has one or two gigs of

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vram which is very easy to use up

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so as you can see the difference between

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F&E photo in Photoshop really depends on

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what you're doing and how fast your

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computer is things like startup times

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opening files and interface performance

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are roughly the same affinity photo does

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feel snappier interface lies a lofty

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filters are significantly faster and it

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uses lots RAM and fear am compared to

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photoshop photoshop camera raw filter

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even though has more features still way

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better than affinity for those developer

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sauna it's faster and smoother stability

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wise I gotta give the upper hand to

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photoshop I've been using a fini photo

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for a couple weeks now and it has

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crashed on me a lot more in Photoshop

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sometimes I even seen a crash on me when

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I'm not doing anything at all like I'm

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just looking at the interface I didn't

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click anything i need type anything and

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no just close but keep in mind that

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Vinnie photo does auto save your

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document and it's the first non beta

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release for windows so I think we gotta

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cut them some slack at least in turn

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next update overall I recommend a fini

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photo if you're on a slower computer

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with four gigs of RAM or less you will

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notice a difference if you're on a

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faster computer with eight gigs around

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more I wouldn't even use performance as

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a deciding factor instead I would be

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looking at other things such as features

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pricing and how it fits your workflow

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like button I gotta clear something up a

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lot of people are comparing a fini photo

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to Lightroom it's not meant to compete

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with Lightroom it's meant to compete

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with Photoshop they're two very

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different software if you're looking for

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a lightroom alternative you should

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probably be looking at something like

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capture one anyways I hope you guys have

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