So while you can easily tell an SSD booted faster than a mechanical drive or a faster/multicore CPU shaved minutes off a video render you are not going to be overwhelmed by even moderate CPU speed differences when working on a layer in Photoshop, maybe if you habitually blend giant files into panoramas. No matter how 'fast' the CPU mere humans can only read, type, move a mouse and mentally process information at a fixed speed. Look it up as that is technically the answer you seem to be seeking.
In those tests peak CPU clock speed always trumps CPU core count, all else being equal. PS and LR largely use one core, the GPU acceleration features are quite modest, and most Photoshop CPU tests use scripts that resemble unattended video rendering more than how mere humans use the program. I overclock my CPU because I can but, honestly, it hardly matters for Photoshop, nor did the move from Sandy Bridge to Skylake. Just like RAM use it is not what most people believe.Īnother way to answer your question is to either overclock your current CPU or read what users perceive about the overclocking experience compared to tests that demonstrate micro or nanosecond differences. You can watch in real time how the speed of your current CPU varies with tasks.
The real answer in terms of what humans can perceive is that those CPU numbers do not much matter over a wider range than most people think, sizzle vs steak.
