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Apple Mac Hardware - Photoshop Test
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42 Seconds flat, timed it twice. Gonna try it on my old 400 Mhz G4 now and see, might get a slightly better time if I load CS2...
Photoshop CS
Dual 2.7 GHz G5,
GeForce 6800 Ultra GT DDL
2x400GB Serial ATA
4GB RAM
30" Apple Cinema Monitor
12 mins 50 secs...
Photoshop 7.0.1
400 MHz G4
ATI Rage 128 Pro
1GB PC100 RAM
Now I wonder what my original 512K "Fat Mac" with 68K Motorola Processor (8 MHz CPU speed processor), 512K of RAM and OS 1.1 will do? If I can even get the 1.3MB jpeg file on there and if MacPaint has radial blur, hmmm...
Photoshop CS
Dual 2.7 GHz G5,
GeForce 6800 Ultra GT DDL
2x400GB Serial ATA
4GB RAM
30" Apple Cinema Monitor
12 mins 50 secs...
Photoshop 7.0.1
400 MHz G4
ATI Rage 128 Pro
1GB PC100 RAM
Now I wonder what my original 512K "Fat Mac" with 68K Motorola Processor (8 MHz CPU speed processor), 512K of RAM and OS 1.1 will do? If I can even get the 1.3MB jpeg file on there and if MacPaint has radial blur, hmmm...
i was confused for a second. i did it on "good" quality and got 56 seconds on my 500 MHz 640 MB G4. i thought no way it could be that fast and then realized it wasn't on best.
maybe my old G4 is sick? Possibly a badly fragged HD with Read/Write problems when accessing the SCRATCH drives? Or maybe it is just that slow? WOW...
Dual 2.5 GHz G5
GeForce 6800 Ultra GT DDL
4GB Ram
1 X 160GB HDD made by Maxtor
1 X 250GB HDD made by Maxtor
OSX Tiger 4.1
Photoshop CS
Safari running in background
First run 39.87 seconds
Second run 40.19 seconds
Third run 40.12 seconds
Forth run 40.24 seconds
Photoshop CS 2 Demo
First run 40.27 seconds
Second run 40.40 seconds
Third run 40.61 seconds
Forth run 40.65 seconds
The timer that I used was a digital stopwatch.
GeForce 6800 Ultra GT DDL
4GB Ram
1 X 160GB HDD made by Maxtor
1 X 250GB HDD made by Maxtor
OSX Tiger 4.1
Photoshop CS
Safari running in background
First run 39.87 seconds
Second run 40.19 seconds
Third run 40.12 seconds
Forth run 40.24 seconds
Photoshop CS 2 Demo
First run 40.27 seconds
Second run 40.40 seconds
Third run 40.61 seconds
Forth run 40.65 seconds
The timer that I used was a digital stopwatch.
Curious, maybe I should try it with a digital stopwatch and see if it makes a difference, I used my analog seconds hand starting at the top of the dial. Not that 2 seconds makes a difference, lol...
Am I the Winner?
Ok on the same G5 D2.7ghz 2.5gb ram 2x250Hd,
PS 7 = 45sec as posted earlier
PS CS2 Demo = 39sec
I was told that CS2 was optimized for G5s, that works out at about 15% thats incredible
Ok on the same G5 D2.7ghz 2.5gb ram 2x250Hd,
PS 7 = 45sec as posted earlier
PS CS2 Demo = 39sec
I was told that CS2 was optimized for G5s, that works out at about 15% thats incredible
evil_santa said:Ok on the same G5 D2.7ghz 2.5gb ram 2x250Hd,
PS 7 = 45sec as posted earlier
PS CS2 Demo = 39sec
I was told that CS2 was optimized for G5s, that works out at about 15% thats incredible
good benchmark for my machine, makes sense then that using Photoshop CS that my setup would come in at 42 seconds between CS2 and 7.0.?
Im have the stock ATI Radeon 9650 in the G5, now should i get the imac 233 out and try for nice slow time.
wow!
I have 7 mins. on a 1 ghz 17" iMac 768 MB Tiger
Oh, I was also encoding H.264 with Handbrake 2 pass with Deinterlacing. Also, Safari, iTunes, and Dashboard were running.
Not too bad, eh?
I also noticed the 1.67 Powerbooks were keeping up with the 2 GHZ iMac G5s. Go G4s!
I wanted to see what it would do after Handbrake is finished, but I didn't want to wait 20 hours to take the test!
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I have 7 mins. on a 1 ghz 17" iMac 768 MB Tiger
Oh, I was also encoding H.264 with Handbrake 2 pass with Deinterlacing. Also, Safari, iTunes, and Dashboard were running.
Not too bad, eh?
I also noticed the 1.67 Powerbooks were keeping up with the 2 GHZ iMac G5s. Go G4s!
I wanted to see what it would do after Handbrake is finished, but I didn't want to wait 20 hours to take the test!
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2 minutes 10 seconds
12" Powerbook 1.5ghz 512mb ram
Photoshop CS2
OS X 10.4.1
PS was the only program running. No widgets.
12" Powerbook 1.5ghz 512mb ram
Photoshop CS2
OS X 10.4.1
PS was the only program running. No widgets.
Here is a PC running the same test
AMD64 3400
DFI Lanparty UT nForce3 250GB AGP
Nvidia Geforce 4 440 MX
512 DDR PC3200 at cas 2.5
1x160GB Maxtor sata drive
Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2
Norton Antivirus
Photoshop CS
First run 1 minute 32 seconds
Second run 1 minute 32 seconds
Timer used is a digital stopwatch
AMD64 3400
DFI Lanparty UT nForce3 250GB AGP
Nvidia Geforce 4 440 MX
512 DDR PC3200 at cas 2.5
1x160GB Maxtor sata drive
Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2
Norton Antivirus
Photoshop CS
First run 1 minute 32 seconds
Second run 1 minute 32 seconds
Timer used is a digital stopwatch
PB 17" Speed.
Hi -
I ran this test on my PowerBook 1.33G with 1.5 G Ram and Photoshop 8.
It crunched the picture in 2 minutes 20 seconds.
Our Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac with 4.5 G of RAM running Photoshop 8 crunched it in 39 seconds (Automatic Processor Speed & Highest - no difference).
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But why take such a beautiful picture of a horse and turn it into a brown goo run through a spin cycle... that is the question.
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Another thing to look at - if you are using Tiger, and have the Xcode tools loaded - try Core Image Fun House. It doesn't have the Radial Blur, but it does have a host of similar image processing filters - and runs very fast. A nice little demo application for Core Image.
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Dan P
Hi -
I ran this test on my PowerBook 1.33G with 1.5 G Ram and Photoshop 8.
It crunched the picture in 2 minutes 20 seconds.
Our Dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac with 4.5 G of RAM running Photoshop 8 crunched it in 39 seconds (Automatic Processor Speed & Highest - no difference).
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But why take such a beautiful picture of a horse and turn it into a brown goo run through a spin cycle... that is the question.
----
Another thing to look at - if you are using Tiger, and have the Xcode tools loaded - try Core Image Fun House. It doesn't have the Radial Blur, but it does have a host of similar image processing filters - and runs very fast. A nice little demo application for Core Image.
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Dan P
Nice Thread.
I think the owner of this threa (mak) should take this data and compile it into a nice little spreadsheet or something, categorized by configuration, etc.
I think the owner of this threa (mak) should take this data and compile it into a nice little spreadsheet or something, categorized by configuration, etc.