I bought myself a new system not that long ago. These are the specks (here at pixls): Insights or advise about: AMD Ryzen 5/7 CPU's and NVIDIA GTX/RTX GPU's - #6 by Jade_NL The rationale for those components are in that thread.
2 reasons I bring this up:
- A general one: I’m really happy how this one performs running darktable, GIMP and, as of late, RawTherapee. Often multiple versions at once.
- A specific one: I started out with 16GB and thought, as mentioned in that topic, that that would be enough. Turns out that it isn’t, not really. I just upgraded to 32GB and that works much better.
Just so you know: I’m on Debian (10/Buster) and run Nvidia’s propriety drivers (450.66) on kernel 5.8.10. Without any problems whatsover. I do use some back-ported stuff though!