Apple Mac Hardware - Photoshop Test

[chibianh]

11.8 seconds on my Mac Pro 2.66 with 3GB of RAM with Mail, Safari, iTunes, and Azureus running in the background.

 

[Og Oggilby]

Mac Pro Dual Quad Core 3.0 Ghz
x1900xt
9GB ram
2 - 500 GB Apple stock hard drives
OS - Bootcamp running XP64
Photoshop CS3

4 seconds

 

[erickkoch]

2.66 Mac Pro, 1 GB ram, CS3

12 sec.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

Pentium 4 2.8 ghz
2 Gigs RAM
CS2

1:43



I'll come back when my Mac Pro Arrives and see how it compares. I was really expecting it to take longer than 1:43, I've read alot of the posts in this thread and some of the G5's weren't going that fast.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

Mac Pro 2.66ghz Dual Core x 2
5 gigs ram


I can't tell exactly since my stopwatch sucks, but I'm gonna say 9 seconds. Up from 1:43, that's pretty darn impressive.

 

[mzd]

anybody try this with the new 2.4 mbp or new iMacs yet?

 

[vicious7]

anybody try this with the new 2.4 mbp or new iMacs yet?

On a 2.2 MBP 2G RAM with CS plus Azureus, InDesign, Adium, Word and Mail running.

20 secs.

I'll test this one out again now that I have 4G RAM and see if it makes a difference.

 

[flappo]

it is pretty mind blowing when you see the old macs - especially the powerpc early models times versus what we have now

personally , i love seeing the amazing comparisons

it shows how lucky we all really are

arguing over a videocard upgrade when 10 years ago , pro's would have killed for the stuff we can buy for peanuts ( relatively ) !!

 

[redeye be]

anybody try this with the new 2.4 mbp or new iMacs yet?

I could test it (MBP 2.4) but I really don't feel like browsing to this thread to find the test... the one in the first post is dead.

 

[GraphicUmp]

I could test it (MBP 2.4) but I really don't feel like browsing to this thread to find the test... the one in the first post is dead.

http://homepage.mac.com/tribe3/.Pictures/test.jpg


By the way, just did the test on my 1.83 Core Duo mini, 10.4.10, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB 5400 RPM HD (stock) and Photoshop CS 3, after a fresh restart with nothing else open:

30 seconds

 

[GraphicUmp]

Ran the test on my work G5 Dual 2.0 (NOT dual core), 2.5 GB RAM, stock 160 GB HD and stock nVidia 64 MB vid card, 10.4.10, PS CS3, only iChat and Suitcase Fusion open:

55 seconds

 

[redeye be]

thanks GraphicUmp

My MBP 2.4 2Gb RAM 7200 rpm disk
running PS CS3 and quicksilver in the background
did this in 26:44

I'm happy.

 

[macenforcer]

http://homepage.mac.com/tribe3/.Pictures/test.jpg


By the way, just did the test on my 1.83 Core Duo mini, 10.4.10, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB 5400 RPM HD (stock) and Photoshop CS 3, after a fresh restart with nothing else open:

30 seconds

Its amazing how a base model mac mini is twice as fast as the Dual G5. Intel switch... best thing to ever happen to apple.

 

[Toknee]

Seemed like something fun to test.


Specs:
Photoshop CS3
MP Dual 2.66
8GB RAM
WD RAPTOR 150GB 10K RPM
X1900XT VIDEO CARD

About 12 Seconds

 

[GraphicUmp]

Its amazing how a base model mac mini is twice as fast as the Dual G5. Intel switch... best thing to ever happen to apple.

That's not the current base model: it's the previous top model (Core Duo).

But this thing blows away the G5 on MANY things.

 

[mongoos150]

Glad I found this old thread! Ok, new machine, new software...

Alu iMac 24" 2.4GHz C2D, 2GB ram, running Adobe CS3 Master Premium:

27 seconds flat. Not bad I suppose for a stock iMac processor. I had other programs running however, and not a fresh start.

 

[irishgrizzly]

Specs:
Photoshop CS2
G4 533Mhz Powermac
896Mb RAM

About 10 Mins 51 Seconds

Did it again with other programs off.

8 Mins 6 Seconds

Still fairly crappy!

 

[irishgrizzly]

Tried it on my iBook:

Photoshop CS2
G4 1Ghz
1.25GB Ram

2 Mins 53 Seconds

 

[THX1139]

I ran the test on my MacPro 2.66 and my old G4 500 Tibook.

For the MacPro I used a stopwatch. For the G4, I had to use a calendar.

MacPro: 13 seconds

G4: I'll tell you when it's done...

 

[contoursvt]

Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz)
Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro motherboard with 4Gigs DDR2-533
Nvidia 7950GT 512MB
73GB 15K SCSI boot drive, 36GB 15K SCSI scratch/temp
Adaptec U160 SCSI controller
Vista 64bit
CS2

18 seconds

 

[irishgrizzly]

On my gf's intel Mini

CS2 (PPC)
1.66 GHz Core Duo
512 MB RAM

1 min 58 secs

 

[fisha]

ThinkPad T40: 1.7Ghz PentiumM 2Gb Ram . . . .

2mins 01 seconds.



Stroll on getting a MacPro in the near future, if it can churn pictures at speeds like those posted, then i'll be wondering how i managed with my current setup.

 

[jonkemerer]

Anyone tried this on the new iMac 24" 2.8GHz machines?

 

[mzd]

Anyone tried this on the new iMac 24" 2.8GHz machines?

just tried it.
iMac 2.8GHz
1GB ram
CS3

22.41 seconds

 

[jonkemerer]

just tried it.
iMac 2.8GHz
1GB ram
CS3

22.41 seconds

Awesome, those are very respectable numbers coming from a P4 3GHz which takes almost 73 seconds. (CS2 - XP)

Thanks for your benchmark. I'm looking more and more towards getting the 2.8