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Apple Mac Hardware - Photoshop Test

50 seconds

tested twice. Once with yahoo, background process, safari, mail and iTunes playing in background, and again with the programs closed. Got the same time each run. Note that I did not restart for either run, and my uptime is an hour short of 4 days

Rev A Dual 2.0 G5 PM :cool:
1.5 GB RAM
Std 160 GB HD
10.3.9
Photoshop CS
X800 Radeon
 
Resize: (run #1) 11 seconds, (run #2) 8 seconds
Rotate: (run #1) 59 seconds, (run #2) 1:22

I completed each test twice, relaunching only photoshop each time. Other processes include yahoo, proteus (appx 8-14%CPU), mail, iTunes (playing), safari, terminal, and background tasks. My uptime is just shy of 4 days.

Rev A Dual 2.0 G5
1.5 GB RAM
Std 160 GB HD
10.3.9
Photoshop CS
x800 Radeon
 
Radial blur took 30.0 seconds.

Not sure if I posted that before but I dont feel like going back through all the pages :)

dual xeon 3.0, 2Gig RAM
 
iGary said:
I don't know if I did this yet - anywho.
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contoursvt said:
Not sure if I posted that before but I dont feel like going back through all the pages :)
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Nice speeds.

BTW, you know you can click on your name to view your profile, then click "Find all posts by contoursvt" to see if you are duplicating your post, right? Good way to keep everyone's reading to a minimum. ;)
Josh
 
contoursvt said:
Resize: 3.1 seconds http://powerthings.com/pics/resize.jpg
Rotate 9.5 seconds http://powerthings.com/pics/rotate.jpg

Dual xeon 3.0, 2Gig RAM....

There is a flaw with this test though. Not everyone has 2+gigs of ram so the ones that dont will hit the swap or scratch disk. Maybe I'm wrong but thats what I think is wrong with this test...
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Maybe you're right, but I still think it's an interesting test. It doesn't test the cpu power alone, but it does test something that is more real than the first test.

If it clearly shows that RAM is the key, then we will have confirmed that RAM is more important than what kind of cpu you have with many photoshop tasks.

I would be interested in seeing someone with a dual G5 and 2GB ram do the test. If the dual Xeon smokes the dual G5 we know that, at least in some cases, the Windows / Xeon / PS combo handles large images better than the OS X / G5 / PS combo.
 
Well at work we have dual 2.5Gig G5's with 2.5gig RAM so I could test those but they only have Photoshop CS installed. I know CS2 performs a little better (It did on my system anyway).

I'll see if I can test it on monday
 
iGary said:
I don't know if I did this yet - anywho.

36 seconds.

Computer in sig.
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Good speed........Well the PM's still have a say even with the new DualCore CPU's ;) :D
 
I can't test this (because my mac is batch processing 4Gbs if RAW files at the moment) but I just have to say that the new Adobe Bridge that comes with CS2 is a dog. Reminds me of the browser that came with 7.0 which was a dog too (but it was ok in CS).
 
50.3

pm dual 2ghz, 1gb ram, 256ati


and also out of interest my p4 3ghz 1gb ram did it in 1:38.8
 
PB, 1.67Ghz+128VRAM 1GB RAM, 128VRAM, running off adapter so performace is set to max. CS2 Demo since I'm not at school yet

Radial Blur:
1st time with Safari, Mail, HP Image Zone, iTunes iChat and iCal running: 2:24
2nd time with just CS2: 2:04

Resize:
1st time with Safari, Mail, HP Image Zone, iTunes iChat and iCal running: 0:34
2nd time with just CS2: 0:24

Rotate:
1st time with Safari, Mail, HP Image Zone, iTunes iChat and iCal running: 2:18
2nd time with just CS2: 2:08
 
Ok, why did mine take sooooo long?

2 minutes, 48 seconds

1.8Ghz G5, 1.25gb ram, GeForce FX 5200.
Photoshop 7.0, 10.3.9


All I had was a 198mb file downloading from the net.
 
Speed

I.m running my G5 1.8, 20", iMac
768 Ram
Bus 600MHz
L2 Cache 512 KB

My time was 2 minutes 2 seconds ....not too bad!
 
G5Unit said:
Ok, why did mine take sooooo long?

2 minutes, 48 seconds

1.8Ghz G5, 1.25gb ram, GeForce FX 5200.
Photoshop 7.0, 10.3.9


All I had was a 198mb file downloading from the net.
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Maybe becouse it's a single processor.
 
2:30 (orginial radial blur test)
DELL Optiplex GX270
P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
WinXP
Photoshop CS
Radeon 7000 32MB
 
radial blur

31.25 seconds

AMD X2 4400+ at 2.6GHz
2 x 1GB Ballistix PC4000
Raptor
CS2

others with specs similiar to mine are getting under 30 seconds :confused:
 
just did the powermac for now.

Photoshop elements 2.0
Dual 867 G4
1152MB ram
Rage Pro 128

First test: 2min 10 sec
Rebooted 2nd test: 2 min 5 sec.

I am curious how the guy on the first page got 1min 30 with dual 867s..does the video card have anything to do with it?
 
28 Seconds

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.7GHz
1GB DDR540
40GB Seagate PATA HD
Radeon X850XT PE
Windows XP Pro
Photoshop CS2
 
Not really any Macs, but I guess it can be interesting for comparisons sake...

#1: (desktop)

2m 3s

AthlonXP 2.2GHz (11*200)
1GB @ 200MHz 11-3-3-2

#2: (laptop)

2m 18s

Pentium-M 1.7GHz (17*100)
512MB @ 166MHz 2-2-2-5

Not exactly blazing fast, either of them. Then again, I didn't really expect better. Atleast it's not horrible... :)
 
uaaerospace said:
Resize: (run #1) 11 seconds, (run #2) 8 seconds
Rotate: (run #1) 59 seconds, (run #2) 1:22

I completed each test twice, relaunching only photoshop each time. Other processes include yahoo, proteus (appx 8-14%CPU), mail, iTunes (playing), safari, terminal, and background tasks. My uptime is just shy of 4 days.

Rev A Dual 2.0 G5
1.5 GB RAM
Std 160 GB HD
10.3.9
Photoshop CS
x800 Radeon
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Something tells me, you may not have followed the instructions right :)
you need to click on BEST :) as well!

Henrik
 
laptop

Hi guys,

been reading this with interest, did a similar test on www.fredmiranda.com but with a different image

ok,
Toshiba Laptop P30 3.6Ghz P4 HT 2Gb ram and CS2
59.2sec

i'll see how my Dual Opteron will perform later! :) :D

Henrik
 
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