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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Ta. The Mac came in with a Cinebench mark of 2400, my old PC clocked in at 607.
That said, the top Cinebench marks seem to be circa 20,000.
Might be time to build a new PC based on an i9 chip 
P.S. There is some irony to the linked image and my old PC both being 2011 vintage.
One wonders how powerful PC's will be in another decade or so  |
Not sure about Photoshop however Pixinsight benefits a lot from multi threads. Bang for buck, it is hard to ignore AMD Ryzen 9 processors. I went for the 12 core/24 thread R9 3900X but there is also the R9 with 16 cores/32 threads for around $1200. That's a similar price point to the i9 10900 with 10 cores/20 threads.
With the R9 3900X my Cinebench mark was 7252:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...6&postcount=12
The other important factors (at least for PI) are swap file speed, RAM and operating system. M.2 NVMe SSD's use the PCIe interface are therefore much faster than SATA SSD's and I've got two just for swap file on my new build. I went for PCIe gen 3 for cost reasons but you can get gen 4 now that boast double the bandwidth of gen 3.
Pixinsight also has an internal benchmark script. Results here (takes a while for the page to load) however this shows the system build info:
https://pixinsight.com/benchmark/ind...tal&os=windows