I also saw speed improvements on a 2013 MacBook Air. And Gigapixel no longer eats the entire computer’s resources you can app switch and do other things while the crunching takes place. In earlier versions of the app I had done batch processing on a 2017 MacBook Air, and each 6x enlargement took about an hour to finish… Now, with a new version and better hardware, it takes just a few minutes per. So is this massive speed increase true? Judging by my own tests, it certainly is! On a M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Big Sur, Gigapixel processed and saved much faster than I had ever seen before! The progress bar, which used to slowly and painfully creep forward, now aggressively races toward completion.

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* LAUNCH SPECIAL: new customers can SAVE $20. “For everyone else on Windows 10 & newer versions of Mac, you’ll notice a 5-6x speed improvement, and different quality for all of the models.”

“Note that most of these updates only pertain to newer hardware – if you’re on Windows 7 / 8, your performance will be similar but slightly faster than the current release version, and the only model update you’ll notice are the ‘Very Compressed’ and face models. “This version includes the AI engine improvements found in the recent DeNoise / Sharpen releases, as well as updates to all of our models, plus a new model (“Very Compressed”). But starting with the new v5.5, Gigapixel can be 5-6X FASTER on recent hardware and OS’s! Topaz says,

Topaz ai gigapixel changelog