r/GIMP 20d ago

GIMP 3.0 Officially Released!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
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u/schumaml GIMP Team 17d ago

Not in particular, though this may depend a lot on your use cases.

There was a post here some time ago about a slightly worse performance, and an issue report had been file based on that subsequently: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/13076

We haven't had much time to look into that these past few days right before 3.0.0, but eventually someone will be able to do so.

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u/gabriel_sub0 17d ago

Fair enough, I'm gonna give 3.0 a few updates to cook and then I will see if it's still super laggy on my end still, it's weird cause the 2.x version runs completely fine but 3.0 lags to the point where even selecting layers makes takes a literal second.

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u/schumaml GIMP Team 16d ago

You can use the Dashboard dialog (https://docs.gimp.org/3.0/en/gimp-dashboard-dialog.html) to see if anything significant shows up in the momentary performance indicators, and record a log there as well.

When you compare the performance you are experiencing to the screen recording in the bug I linked to, is it comparable, or worse? If the latter, then it may be useful if you could file a report and attach the performance log as well.

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u/gabriel_sub0 16d ago

It's not comparable actually, my cpu usage never goes above 8% and out of the 8 gigabytes of memory I gave the program only 2 at most are ever used. My cache is at 0% as well but idk if that's relevant, do you want my pc specs?