here's how I know lightroom is bad.
Braineack takes a one week long vacation with his wife. Takes a bunch of pictures.
Spends the next weekend frustratingly going to through pictures. Wifey comes in and says I'd like to see them and we start cycling through. Wifey gets annoyed that she has to wait 5-10sec between pictures for them to render the preview. Braineack suggests "let me render all the previews so they'll all load faster." "okay!" "come back in 45min when those are finished so we can just cycle through images..." "nevermind I dont want to see them, it doesnt matter anymore I have some on my cell phone"
next time I shoot, ill probably start saving jpg copies...
I don't have the greatest rig, but I have a decent one.
I have a FX8320 8core CPU overclocked to 4.0Ghz. 32GB of DDR3 RAM, catalog and app sit on a 500GB SSD, R9 390 GPU w/8GB.
Using GPU acceleration only makes the app slower and crash.
LR simply cant take advantage of multiple cores, and every benchmark I see out there shows that more cores actually makes it run worse. I saw one test where they ran LR using (2) 10-core CPUs and LR operations were 30% slower than a single 4-core. Otherwise I'd have gone with the i7-6950X.
Your core is closely matched to mine, but accels over mine significantly in single core operations, so I could see where you might be okay.
I'll try this new CPU/MB/RAM combo I bought, and see how it reacts, but I don't see adobe putting any effort into developing a modern app, so I have a feeling I'll be jumping ship... I really don't feel like waiting 4-5 seconds after I move a slider to see the change.