Reply to thread

Imagick usually handles images in a more optimised way; quicker processing, less memory usage, perhaps slightly better compression too though I've never looked at that in detail. Another benefit of Imagick is how it can handle resizing animated images. When you run a GIF through GD, it grabs the first frame and resizes that only. Imagick grabs all frames, resizes each one, and puts the frames back together (this generally allows animated avatars, and similar).

It might be worth bumping the PHP version, too. e.g. if you're running an older build of PHP 5.6 it might be worth moving to the newest PHP 5.6 (5.6.18).