RacerX said:
Fore a second there, uhum... I thought you said 47 seconds. I was like WOW. Go SGI, then I saw it said minutes. Must be why sgi is a penny stock now.
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Fore a second there, uhum... I thought you said 47 seconds. I was like WOW. Go SGI, then I saw it said minutes. Must be why sgi is a penny stock now.
So let me get this straight... you think SGI is a penny stock because a 1994 system running a 1995 copy of Photoshop isn't as fast as today's systems?MacTruck said:
For any one who would like to know the real reason SGI has taken a long decline, I can tell you that the beginning of the end of SGI was in 1998/1999 when they started selling Windows compatible workstations and when Bob Bishop became CEO. During that same period they tied themselves to Linux and Itanium, neither of which did SGI any good.
Both SGI's operating system (IRIX) and their original hardware (based on MIPS processors) has been stagnant since then. SGI workstations went from being the fastest in the world by leaps and bounds to being about average.
But, if you are looking for a comparison, we should look at the fastest personal computer in the world from the same time period... the PowerMacintosh 8100av/80.
Quick comparison between the systems...
Price (in 1994 dollars):
SGI Indy: $22,985.00 ($15,995 for base system without video capture options)
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: $5,660.00
Processors:Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: $5,660.00
SGI Indy: MIPS R4400sc at 175 MHz, 1 MB L2
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: PowerPC 601 at 80 MHz, 256k L2
Memory:Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: PowerPC 601 at 80 MHz, 256k L2
SGI Indy: 128 MB
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: 208 MB
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: 208 MB
And their times...
SGI Indy: 47 minutes
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: 142 minutes
Apple PowerMacintosh 8100av/80: 142 minutes
The thing is, what my Indy does that keeps it part of my work flow is that it can capture video at full frame rate at full frame size. That makes it a great system for me. It does what it was designed to do very nicely, even today.
Even with the G3/500 upgrade installed in my 8100, it can't capture video anywhere close to that good.
Your right I ran it again and it was 8:36. I must have miss read my read stop watch or hit the wrong number. Thats still fast for a 300 dollar computer. BTW this test is mainly proccessor speed, and I would say that HD speed and ram don't play as much of a role in the time.
took 1:53 on one of my school's p4 3.2ghz, 2gb ddr, 5200 64mb machines. running nothing but photoshop cs, a windows explorer window (with the file) and the clock deal.
2:24
12" PB 1.33 G4
1.25 GB
Photoshop CS
EDIT**************
above = with Safari open
2:18 running solo
12" PB 1.33 G4
1.25 GB
Photoshop CS
EDIT**************
above = with Safari open
2:18 running solo
Behold the power of... the CUBE!
500 Mhz G4 Cube
1 GB RAM
Photoshop CS
6:40 --> woo!
I'll try it on my PB later...
500 Mhz G4 Cube
1 GB RAM
Photoshop CS
6:40 --> woo!
I'll try it on my PB later...
30.0 seconds - digital stopwatch
Dual Xeon 3.0 (800Mhz FSB) - 1mb cache
2gig DDR400
X800XT-PE
15K U160 SCSI drives
XP Pro SP2 - 50% memory assigned to Photoshop CS2
Dual Xeon 3.0 (800Mhz FSB) - 1mb cache
2gig DDR400
X800XT-PE
15K U160 SCSI drives
XP Pro SP2 - 50% memory assigned to Photoshop CS2
One thing to note...this was brought to my attention a while back about CS2... when you time within photoshop, it gives you higher numbers than if you use a stopwatch. Not exactly sure why though.
I started my timing when I clicked the mouse button to start it and stopped it as soon as the progress bar vanished but there was like a 3 second discrepancy if I remember. Those of you who timed in photoshop CS2, try it again with a watch or stopwatch
I started my timing when I clicked the mouse button to start it and stopped it as soon as the progress bar vanished but there was like a 3 second discrepancy if I remember. Those of you who timed in photoshop CS2, try it again with a watch or stopwatch
mak said:
That is great performance from a top of the range AMD dual core cpu. I have a cheaper Intel dual core:
50.07 seconds (average from three tests)
Pentium D 820 (2.8GHz)
Intel 955X chipset
1 GB 533Mhz DDR2 in dual channel mode
6600GT
Win XP Pro 32 bit SP2
Photoshop CS 2
We should test several filters and not just radial blur if we want to compare different cpus, because the performance for different filters can vary between cpus.
For those of you who use Photoshop a lot, what kind of filters or other time consuming operations do you perform the most?
I don't use Photoshop a lot and I always work with pictures that are low res enough to not take much time on my iMac 2GHz anyway, so I don't really have any performance issues. I use "Free Rotate Layer" a lot and "Gaussian Blur" sometimes.
Edit: I tried the test and it took 1:46 on my iMac G5 2GHz 1GB RAM in Photoshop Elements 3. I also tried a custom rotate 2.5 degrees to the right and a gaussian blur with 9.8 pixel radius. Both finish immediately or in real time, so that's no use as a test.
For those of you who use Photoshop a lot, what kind of filters or other time consuming operations do you perform the most?
I don't use Photoshop a lot and I always work with pictures that are low res enough to not take much time on my iMac 2GHz anyway, so I don't really have any performance issues. I use "Free Rotate Layer" a lot and "Gaussian Blur" sometimes.
Edit: I tried the test and it took 1:46 on my iMac G5 2GHz 1GB RAM in Photoshop Elements 3. I also tried a custom rotate 2.5 degrees to the right and a gaussian blur with 9.8 pixel radius. Both finish immediately or in real time, so that's no use as a test.
Here's another interesting test. I think it will be more memory intensive, but I also think it tests something that is a little bit more useful than turning a brown horse into a brownish gradient.
Use the same picture.
Resize image to 16000 pixels wide
x Scale styles
x Constain Proportions
x Resample: Bicubic
See how long it takes to resize the image.
Then rotate the image 2.5 degrees to the right and see how long it takes to rotate.
My iMac G5 2GHz 1GB RAM takes:
Resize: 27s
Rotate: 2m31s
Use the same picture.
Resize image to 16000 pixels wide
x Scale styles
x Constain Proportions
x Resample: Bicubic
See how long it takes to resize the image.
Then rotate the image 2.5 degrees to the right and see how long it takes to rotate.
My iMac G5 2GHz 1GB RAM takes:
Resize: 27s
Rotate: 2m31s
Teh Cube!
500 Mhz G4 Cube
1 GB RAM
stock everything else
Photoshop CS
Resize: 27 seconds
Rotate: 2:30
Edit: I just looked at the other two scores posted, and mine seems... let's say way too fast in comparison. I'll retry the test when I get back home in a few hours... maybe I did something wrong.
500 Mhz G4 Cube
1 GB RAM
stock everything else
Photoshop CS
Resize: 27 seconds
Rotate: 2:30
Edit: I just looked at the other two scores posted, and mine seems... let's say way too fast in comparison. I'll retry the test when I get back home in a few hours... maybe I did something wrong.