Apple Mac Hardware - Photoshop Test

[FadeToBlack]

Original radial blur test.
1m 48sec

Powerbook 1.67MHz 1.5GB ram
Photoshop CS

Wasnt it TOO fast for my pbook??

Wow, those do seem like great times for a PowerBook!

 

[daveslc]

Well, I went to Adobe's site and downloaded the 30 day trial of CS2 to see if there will be any difference. [as a nice sidenote, my download from them was at 425-450 KB/sec--way to go Comcast!]

With CS2: 6 minutes, 50 seconds.

With 3.0.1 in Classic mode: 14 minutes, 57 seconds.

Needless to say, there is a difference!

Mine was almost the same.
6 minutes 54 seconds
G4 Digital Audio 533, CS2, 1.25 GB ram

 

[Melkor]

PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz
2GB RAM
Photoshop CS

1 minute 59 seconds

Just breaks the 2 minute milestone!

 

[Dorkmonger]

2min 50sec for me

Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz 1Gig Ram

I had a lot of other programs in the background....

 

[Kjackson]

37 seconds!

Dual 2.7 Powermac G5
1 Gig of RAM
256 meg VRAM

 

[revenuee]

originally over 14 minutes with photoshop CS running on OS 10.2, G4 400mhz 40 gig 2mb cache drive, 832 megs of ram

NOW ... just over 2 minutes with 1.6 ghz powerlogix processor upgrade. 1.25 gigs of ram 120 gig 8 mb cache hard drive and OS 10.4

hell of an improvement for 400$

 

[p0intblank]

originally over 14 minutes with photoshop CS running on OS 10.2, G4 400mhz 40 gig 2mb cache drive, 832 megs of ram

NOW ... just over 2 minutes with 1.6 ghz powerlogix processor upgrade. 1.25 gigs of ram 120 gig 8 mb cache hard drive and OS 10.4

hell of an improvement for 400$

Wow, that IS an improvement! It's practically a whole new computer for less than a Mac mini.

 

[bigbossbmb]

39 seconds for my dual 2.5GHz 4.5GB RAM and Raptor boot drive running CS (ran it twice)

2:19 for my 1.33 GHz 12" pb with 1.25GB RAM CS2

I'm installing CS2 on my G5 now and we'll see how it does....

 

[mongoos150]

55 seconds on a Gateway E series Pentium 4 (w/hyperthreading) at my university computer lab...It won't allow me to access the system profiler so I don't know CPU speeds or ram...but considering there are over 100 of these, they can't be maxed out (considering they were bought in bulk). Amazing how a standard PC can perform so well compared to top of the line Mac systems...I hope my new iMac 2.0 Core Duo can fare well in this test (of course after a UB is released, I'm sure it will do horribly under rosetta at the moment). Has anyone done this test recently on a new Intel iMac? I'm curious to see just how slow this test would take.

 

[mongoos150]

I'm amazed - I just got my Intel iMac (2.0 GHz 1.5GB ram, 256vram) and ran the test - 49:02!!! I was expecting Photoshop CS to c-r-a-w-l but it's performing 2.5x better than my previous powerbook! I'm extremely impressed, I can't wait to see how it performs once Adobe releases UBs - I bought this system to be my pro mac for years to come, looks like it will be doing a superb job

 

[BakedBeans]

I'm amazed - I just got my Intel iMac (2.0 GHz 1.5GB ram, 256vram) and ran the test - 49:02!!! I was expecting Photoshop CS to c-r-a-w-l but it's performing 2.5x better than my previous powerbook! I'm extremely impressed, I can't wait to see how it performs once Adobe releases UBs - I bought this system to be my pro mac for years to come, looks like it will be doing a superb job

CS2 on my intel imac - specs in sig - does it in 59. I might have to install my old copy of CS to see the time differences.

 

[Chuck]

Wow, that's weird that mongoos's time is less than BB's when there's less ram.

g.

 

[Will Cheyney]

38.2 seconds.

Adobe Photoshop CS2
Dual 2.7 Powermac G5
4 GB RAM

 

[Wuzz]

8 mins 20 secs

iBook G3 600Mhz
640 MB RAM
Adobe Photoshop 7.0

I really should upgrade at some point

 

[johnnybluejeans]

8 mins 20 secs

iBook G3 600Mhz
640 MB RAM
Adobe Photoshop 7.0

I really should upgrade at some point

I've got one of those too. ; )

 

[Sharky II]

Powermac G5 DualCore 2.0
2.5GB Ram, 10.4.4, Nvidia 6600 256mb, yadda yadda

Photoshop CS 1 (which is basically photoshop 8).

44 secs

No idea why/how it matches some of the faster machines, but i'm happy with that... isn't cs2 even faster?

 

[mongoos150]

I think it's amazing my Intel machine is nearly matching monster G5 systems - Jobs was crazy when saying a pro wouldn't want to run CS on an Intel mac at the moment...

 

[Eithanius]

I think it's amazing my Intel machine is nearly matching monster G5 systems - Jobs was crazy when saying a pro wouldn't want to run CS on an Intel mac at the moment...

I was hoping they would dump a twin-core G5 on the iMacs....

 

[majorp]

iMac Core Duo 2.0
cs1

49 seconds

 

[poolin1243]

Powerbook 1.5Ghz
1.5GB DDR ram

2minutes 10 seconds..

meh...


i think im gettin an intel imac second gen.

 

[bigbossbmb]

so i upgraded to cs2 on my desktop and it added 2 secs (from 39s to 41s) to the blur test! aww adobe's progress

i would revert back, at least on my pb, but i like perspective cloning way too much...

 

[poolin1243]

WELL BIG improvement on my dual powermac.

MDD 1.33 Dual Giga Processor
1.25 GB DDR ram

1minute 13 seconds!

almost a MINUTE faster than my 1.5ghz powerbook with 1.5 gigs of ram!

Then the processor at 1.47 dual- 1minute 7 seconds so 6 seconds faster.

 

[fra]

So I got my extra gig of RAM today and what a difference it made!

Chuck1 w/ 512Mb: 1:21s
Chuck1 w/ 1.5Gb: 18s

Chuck2 w/ 512Mb: 7:02s
Chuck2 w/ 1.5Gb: 2:53s

now i can check it myself..)

Chuck2 w/ 1.5 Gb: 2:49s (Only with Safari running)
Chuck2 w/ 1.5 Gb: 3:45s (with Safari, Illustrator and Lynotype FontExplorer X running, Illustrator 'unexpectedly' quit after the action..)

iMac Core Duo, 20" 2GHz, 1.5Gb RAM, 128 Video RAM..

 

[ChrisBoven]

2:44

15 powerbook G4, 1 Ghz, 768 Ram, 60 gb, 64 Vram

not bad for a rev A Aluminum Powerbook

 

[Saturnine]

2.0GHz Intel Core Duo iMac
512MB RAM
Photoshop CS2

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