With the release of Lightroom 6 / CC, there has been a lot of hype about the performance speedups in image rendering. Being curious, I ran a few tests to see how much LR6/CC may have improved for my own workflow. Summary Processing and exporting from raw files is significantly faster in LR 6/CC (about 30%). The GPU did not make a difference. No difference in generating previews between LR 5 and 6. Small panoramas take roughly equivalent time in PS and Lightroom. But my test with a large panorama ...