Speed Up Every Portion of your Workflow

Speed matters to all of us. With the ever-increasing size of today's digital photos and memory cards, it keeps getting easier and easier to shoot more and more. Over a year or two or more, this can quickly add up to a huge amount of data.

Whether you are a photo hobbyist or professional photographer, the time opening catalogs, loading images, searching for the right images, and creating output images is time that you are not spending reviewing the actual image quality or making artistic adjustments or improvements.

On-Screen Speed

Output generation isn't the only measure of speed, so Bibble 5 includes a advanced scheduling technology to ensure that on-screen work like updating the Preview images always happens as close to real-time as possible. The video to the right shows Bibble working with 24 megapixel RAW files from Sony's a900.

Output Creation Speed

Bibble 4 was always the fastest RAW file converter on the market, and Bibble 5 surpasses Bibble 4 on every computer type we've been able to test on, from netbooks and notebooks to standard desktops and brand new workstations to 32-core servers.

The chart to the right shows Bibble 5's output image creation speed for 10 megapixel RAW files using various numbers of CPU Cores, and compares Bibble 5 to other applications that perform similar functions. Bibble 5 running on a single CPU is as fast as the next fatest application running on 4 CPU's, and Bibble running on two CPU's is nearly twice as fast as the next fastest application running on 16 or even 32 CPU's.

Multi-Threading Matters

Practically all new computers today come with at least a dual-core processor, and many have 4 or more CPU cores. Despite this growing trend towards higher core counts, very few image editing programs are designed to fully take advantage of this additional computing power.

With other applications, you'll need 4 cores to run twice as fast as they run on one core. And adding more than 4 cores provides nearly no performance gain at all.

Bibble 5 is extremely well multi-threaded, meaning that Bibble processes your images twice as fast when you double the number of cores or CPU's.