After recently upgrading to the new Sony A99II 42-megapixel Full Frame SLT camera, my old Intel Quad Core i7 3770K wasn't cutting it anymore -- especially when batch processing north of 100 raw image files after an event.

Switching from Mac to Windows was a bit scary 5 years ago, but to this day, I had never used an AMD-based machine before. Even my Apple computers ran on Intel chips in recent years. I heard about AMD Ryzen being a great new 8-core CPU, and it really delivers on all fronts.

It's cut my batch raw image processing time down to 1/3 of what it was before. Video render times are also cut in half.

I'm using the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X along with the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 8 GB DDR5 professional GPU with apps like Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Premiere CC, DxO Optics Pro 11, Capture One Pro 10 and Vegas 14 Pro.

I highly recommend if you're a photographer, videographer, designer or motion graphics artists looking to radically speed up your workflow!