As we talked about yesterday in our post taking a look at strong Zen 2 performance in Adobe Lightroom, we mentioned that we’ve been augmenting our test suite for the next set of CPU launches. Lightroom is one (re)addition that’s being made, while Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is another. While we plan to integrate real-world DaVinci Resolve testing soon, we wanted to get something added into the next suite revision since our tests are not quite built yet.

Little did we realize, Blackmagic released BRAW Speed Test last month, and while it takes no time to run, it seems to give reasonable results, and most importantly, repeatable and scalable results. BM says that if your target resolution and compression ratio passes the 60 FPS mark, then it can be considered “ideal”. That’s even in the event your source footage is less than 60 FPS, because it’s not uncommon to double up on streams in production for side-by-side action (or picture-in-picture). In effect, if you manage to hit 90 FPS in one test, that should effectively mean you could hit up to 3x 8K/30 (although you wouldn’t have any headroom left).