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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test
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Unitl now I have been a PC user
But I am really interested in trying out the Mac pro for my work. I mostly need a fast and reliable computer for CS2 work converting thousands of high rez. photo's from RAW to jpegs. Also do some retouching and use lots of plug ins.. i now have a dual Xeon 3.04 PC and I just want ot know if I will see a differecne with my type of work on a fully loaded Mac Pro.
I do notice on your forums that it works slower on the mac side bec. of Rosetta. Has anyone tried the PC side or does that defeat the purpose? Does Adobe have a predictable cycle for PS upgrades or is it haphazard and would buying a mac pro be premature for me at this time, bec. of the issue's I have read about in this forum??
But I am really interested in trying out the Mac pro for my work. I mostly need a fast and reliable computer for CS2 work converting thousands of high rez. photo's from RAW to jpegs. Also do some retouching and use lots of plug ins.. i now have a dual Xeon 3.04 PC and I just want ot know if I will see a differecne with my type of work on a fully loaded Mac Pro.
I do notice on your forums that it works slower on the mac side bec. of Rosetta. Has anyone tried the PC side or does that defeat the purpose? Does Adobe have a predictable cycle for PS upgrades or is it haphazard and would buying a mac pro be premature for me at this time, bec. of the issue's I have read about in this forum??
For your applications I would definitely wait to buy a Mac Pro until Adobe releases CS3. You'll be taking too much of a productivity hit, otherwise, I believe.
Anglepoise iMac G4, 1.25GHz, 1GB DDR
running Tiger 10.4.7 and PS CS2
I did the test twice once in normal use, with my usual history states, 20, and not having restarted for while, with main system apps running, ie iChat, Safari and Mail:
10 minutes and 1 sec
and once after a restart with the histories down to 1 and nothing else open.
6 mins and 36 secs.
I'm very interested to see, now that you can only buy G5's second hand, how the highest spec iMac intel runs vs the lowest spec new Mac Pros (2 x 2GHz and same RAM).
running Tiger 10.4.7 and PS CS2
I did the test twice once in normal use, with my usual history states, 20, and not having restarted for while, with main system apps running, ie iChat, Safari and Mail:
10 minutes and 1 sec
and once after a restart with the histories down to 1 and nothing else open.
6 mins and 36 secs.
I'm very interested to see, now that you can only buy G5's second hand, how the highest spec iMac intel runs vs the lowest spec new Mac Pros (2 x 2GHz and same RAM).
RevA 17" G4 Powerbook, 1Gb RAM, CS2 @ 7 History states
Admittedly I had been doing heaps of intensive work and didn't restart the machine, but I did close all apps except for textedit before starting the action.
Anyway, my time was 14 minutes even.
My conclusion is that as soon as the Core 2 Duo iMacs are out I'm getting one.
Also - in relation to the discussion about the relevance of file sizes this large... My main trade isn't as a photographer, but as a graphic designer I regularly work on photos this large and larger. Just last week I did a poster that was two metres tall, and I've also done outdoor billboards with images taking up a good proportion of them. (I know what you're thinking - why the heck is he using a 3.5yo G4 powerbook? Me too!).
Chuck.
BTW Bakedbeans, how come you ditched your 20" Intel iMac - I thought you were really happy with it?
Admittedly I had been doing heaps of intensive work and didn't restart the machine, but I did close all apps except for textedit before starting the action.
Anyway, my time was 14 minutes even.
My conclusion is that as soon as the Core 2 Duo iMacs are out I'm getting one.
Also - in relation to the discussion about the relevance of file sizes this large... My main trade isn't as a photographer, but as a graphic designer I regularly work on photos this large and larger. Just last week I did a poster that was two metres tall, and I've also done outdoor billboards with images taking up a good proportion of them. (I know what you're thinking - why the heck is he using a 3.5yo G4 powerbook? Me too!).
Chuck.
BTW Bakedbeans, how come you ditched your 20" Intel iMac - I thought you were really happy with it?
Marx55 said:
First you need Photoshop
Next copy the atn File to: PhotoshopCS2/Presets/Photoshop Actions
Open the pic, and run the Action.
Got it?
Test Powerbook 12"
I did this test on my regular Photoshop setup (I have a DSLR an i have clients and although i don't need a fast computer most of the time i want it to bee as fast as it can get when doing jobs, from looking at the test i think it is very close to reality although i do not use gaussian blur (taking the most time in the test).
Anyway my setup:
Powerbook 12" 1.33 GHZ G4
1.25 Gig RAM
System: 7.200 rpm 60 gig internal harddrive
Scratch: Maxtor 3.5 harddrive via firewire
CS2 (9.0.1)
History is set to 10
Cache is 2
Photoshop Memory is set to 95% (does this make any difference any way)
And it took 7:25
Only the third test ran ok, the first producing a PS Disk Error message and the second had Photoshop not wanting to perform Brightness Contrast (it just is not used to do that). Photoshop never displayed those messages to me though (i mean it honly happened in the test — completely new to me).
I did this test on my regular Photoshop setup (I have a DSLR an i have clients and although i don't need a fast computer most of the time i want it to bee as fast as it can get when doing jobs, from looking at the test i think it is very close to reality although i do not use gaussian blur (taking the most time in the test).
Anyway my setup:
Powerbook 12" 1.33 GHZ G4
1.25 Gig RAM
System: 7.200 rpm 60 gig internal harddrive
Scratch: Maxtor 3.5 harddrive via firewire
CS2 (9.0.1)
History is set to 10
Cache is 2
Photoshop Memory is set to 95% (does this make any difference any way)
And it took 7:25
Only the third test ran ok, the first producing a PS Disk Error message and the second had Photoshop not wanting to perform Brightness Contrast (it just is not used to do that). Photoshop never displayed those messages to me though (i mean it honly happened in the test — completely new to me).
Here we go...quad64bit said:It appears the site hosting the test suit is down due to HEAVY traffic from all of us. Could someone mirror the files and post a link for those of use that don't have the action set yet? Thanks!!
[Link removed again]
groovebuster
P.S.: Tonight I will take the ZIP-Archive offline again...
Thanks! I did the same!
Thanks Groove -- I went ahead and mirrored the file on my webspace as well.
Here is the address:
http://steffen.damnserver.com/Speedtest.zip
groovebuster said:
Thanks Groove -- I went ahead and mirrored the file on my webspace as well.
Here is the address:
http://steffen.damnserver.com/Speedtest.zip
Marx55 said:
Bring up Actions with Alt + F9, Click the triangle and go to "Retouch Artists"
Boom ;-)
Great test , thanks for setting it up !
It got me to play around a little with my PS settings, with interesting results.
My rig : DP 2.0 Ghz, Rev. B, 4.5 GB Ram, internal SATA scratch disk (half full), Radeon X800XT .
Photoshop CS2 / 9.01, Cache: 2
History 15, Ram 70% : 1.58
History 1, Ram 85% : 1.17
History 1, Ram 85%, 'Bigger Tiles' Plugin enabled : 1.06
History set to more realistic 10, Ram 85%, 'Bigger Tiles' Plugin enabled : 1.40
It got me to play around a little with my PS settings, with interesting results.
My rig : DP 2.0 Ghz, Rev. B, 4.5 GB Ram, internal SATA scratch disk (half full), Radeon X800XT .
Photoshop CS2 / 9.01, Cache: 2
History 15, Ram 70% : 1.58
History 1, Ram 85% : 1.17
History 1, Ram 85%, 'Bigger Tiles' Plugin enabled : 1.06
History set to more realistic 10, Ram 85%, 'Bigger Tiles' Plugin enabled : 1.40
amin said:
That sounds about right.
I've come to this conclusion that this test is 100% useless without some sort of preference setting baseline. One of the few things I remember from science class in junior high is that if you want to measure some variables, like the speed of different systems, you need to keep other things constant. In this case, the constant should software - the file, the actions, the OS and version of PS, as well as the prefs in PS. With all these kept constant, the test should be fairly accurate in telling us the differences in our hardware.
Horst said:
Wow, nice!!! I forgot the history....
Set it to 1 and i got a time of 47 Seconds on my Quad with 4,5 Gig Ram
COOOOOL