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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

Horst said:
And maybe people should quit all other apps, just like they would if they actually had to work with Photoshop .... ;)
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You obviously don't then, because you always have to do something in another program while using Photoshop. I use it in work full time and usually have iTunes, Safari, Mail, and various other things open at the same time (sometimes Dreamweaver, or Illustrator).
 
PowerMac Dual G5 2,3 GHz

1 min 5 sec

PowerMac Dual G5 2.3 GHz (not dual-core, dual processor), 2,5 GB RAM - 400 MHz, 250 GB HD (startup), 8 MB and 300 GB HD, 16 MB - both HDs set as scratch, ATI Radeon 9600, 128 MB, Photoshop 9.0.1, maximum memory used by Photoshop = 90 %, Cache levels 4, History states: 1, Mac OS X 10.4.7


1 min 55 sec
maximum memory used by Photoshop = 60 %, History states: 20
 
ultrafiel said:
You obviously don't then, because you always have to do something in another program while using Photoshop. I use it in work full time and usually have iTunes, Safari, Mail, and various other things open at the same time (sometimes Dreamweaver, or Illustrator).
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Yes I do, and if I need to use Mail, Safari and such I quit after I'm done.
But maybe I'm just stuck with old OS 9 habits ;) .
 
interesting observations

Dual 2.0 G5/10.4.7/2.5gb ram/CS2

With 13 other apps open, 20 history states, 50% ram, system disk scratch - 3:08

With no other apps open, 20 history states, 80% ram, system disk scratch, cleaned user/system cache and temp files/ restarted- 3:07

With 5 other apps open, 1 history state, 80% ram, firewire disk scratch- 1:19

With 5 other apps open, 5 history states, 80% ram, firewire disk scratch and mail checking in the middle of guassian blur - 4:59

With 4 other apps open (mail closed), 5 history state,s 80% ram, firewire disk scratch- 1:30
 
look folks, what is the point in setting History states to 1? This is supposed to be a real world test so we can compare how fast a PowerMac is versus an Intel one running under rosetta, its not a competition as to who can get the fastest benchmark. Nobody has photoshop set with just one undo in the real world (we're not on photoshop 4!)

The photoshop history levels should be left as default (20), otherwise the results are going to be all over the place.

10 minutes 12 seconds btw, on a 1Ghz G4 imac with 512MB of RAM and 40GB free on my HD. Running CS1 on 10.3.9
 
Here's the results I've got after setting History 1, RAM 100% (Approx 1700MB), on MBP 2.16 ghz, 5400RPM drive,

4 min 24 sec in Tiger/Rosetta/CS2 (Incl Image size)

1 min 04 sec in Bootcamp/XP2/CS2 (Incl Image size)

Looks like MBP is not far behind Quad G5 when using native apps.
 
7 minutes 37 seconds

Powerbook G4 1.67ghz, 1gb Ram, 128 Vram,

(P.S. I checked my e-mail once during the test. Don't know if this had anything to do with the results or not)
 
TheMacPotato said:
look folks, what is the point in setting History states to 1? This is supposed to be a real world test so we can compare how fast a PowerMac is versus an Intel one running under rosetta, its not a competition as to who can get the fastest benchmark. Nobody has photoshop set with just one undo in the real world (we're not on photoshop 4!)

The photoshop history levels should be left as default (20), otherwise the results are going to be all over the place.
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Agreed. I would never run Photoshop with only 1 history state... I use that feature ALL the time. Speed be damned.

Actually, if you really think about it, your actual workflow might be much faster with 20 history states than it would be with only 1. It enables you to easily go back to an earlier revision of something - rather than having to redo work to get back to that point.
 
Azurael said:
Then surely it's not a real world test? That's my point. A real world test would invole making modifications to the image which a real photographer might make to produce a real result which a real photographer might. Anyway, my opinion is clearly not wanted here, and admittedly, I did hijack the thread just a little so I'll leave before I'm pushed out. :D
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To be honest mate, I don't think you have an idea - when you are producing hi res images for 'real' print, you need as much grunt as you can get. These tests give a thorough working out of photoshop and are very relevant indeed.

I think your confusing 'photographer' with 'happy snapper'
 
Interesting results - I got 4m15s w/CS2 on a 3.4Ghz Pentium 4 w/HT, 1.5GB RAM. About what I expected.
 
best I could do was 57-58 secs.
2.5 GHz Dual G5
3.5 GB SDRAM
cache levels at 4
History state at 1
2 scratch disks.

PSC2.

With History state set at 20 I got 2.15 sec.
 
Speed Test Results

2 min 6 seconds

PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5 / 4Gb Ram / OS 10.4.7 / Geoforce 7800GT 256 Mb
 
atari1356 said:
Agreed. I would never run Photoshop with only 1 history state... I use that feature ALL the time. Speed be damned.

Actually, if you really think about it, your actual workflow might be much faster with 20 history states than it would be with only 1. It enables you to easily go back to an earlier revision of something - rather than having to redo work to get back to that point.
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True, but the number of history states seems to have a great influence on the result of this particular test, hence any stats need to have those settings included , otherwise the outcome is not comparable and the numbers useless, imho.

History= 1 is what's doable, history= 10-20 is more like a real life experience. ;)
 
Photoshop Speed Test Results

1:31 From fresh restart
No other major apps running

1:36 Before restart
with Firefox, Thunderbird, iTunes, and Mail running

Photoshop CS2 (9.0.1)
Powermac G5 2.5 GHz
OS 10.4.7
6 GB SDRAM
100% Allocated = 3072 MB
20 History States
150 GB 7,200 RPM, SATA Primary Hard Drive
36 GB 10,000 RPM, SATA Dedicated Scratch Drive
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (AGP 128 MB)
 
MacBook Pro
2.0GHz Core Duo
2GB RAM with 85% Allocated
7200RPM HD
No Scratch Disk:

5:50

Same setup only this time with scratch disk:

4:37

Pretty decent improvement I'd say.
 
Opteron squeezing in.

Hi all, I frequent these forums even though I own only a Duo230 powerbook, a Mac quadra 840/AV and a MacII cx, and a Mac SE I still keep tabs on Apple and decided to run your test on my self-built opteron. I'm a former Apple Certified tech so don't gimme any grief :p


My Box

Opteron dual-core 170 Overclocked a mild 10% ( air cooled ) (2200mhz)

2gb Corsair DDR dual channel cas 2, 1T WS ram

ATI All in Wonder X1900 256mb

Twin Hitachi 250gb in Raid 0

(more agressive complete specs, since tuned down from heat)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rickware/103553550/

Anyway, I ran the test 4 times. First normal with everything running, photoshop in all default prefs, was even watching tv.

2:21 20, 50% ram, 6 cache

then I turned off the tv closed Flock ran it again

2:18

then I decided to kill unnecessary services in windows and retune a bit thinking I can get under 2minutes

2:13

Then I started reading this thread and found out how changing the cache and memory helps and re-ran it.

1:12 ! - ok that's a huge jump, I pushed mem to 100% , cache levels to 4, history states to 1.

1:12 for the windows (ex mac osx ) guy.

Not too shabby for a $1800 box. or whatever I paid back in march. It was 3k but a 24" Dell 2405 is in that, plus a wacom tablet, plus an X-Fi etc.


that was 1:12.
 
Quicksilver

6min 31sec

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Quicksilver 02; 2x800 G4; 1GB; 120GB Maxtor 6L120P0
 
Just got my Mac Pro a few hours ago

I just got my MacPro delivered by FedEx.

It's a stock Mac Pro system, Quad 2.66 Xeon, 1 GB ram, 250HD.

I installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 and ran Adobe software updater and downlaod the available update.

I did not change *any* settings from the default installation.

I ran the test 5 times and here are the results:

1)3:37
2)3:38
3)3:31
4)3:29
5)3:29
 
slabbius said:
MacBook Pro
2.0GHz Core Duo
2GB RAM with 85% Allocated
7200RPM HD
No Scratch Disk:

5:50

Same setup only this time with scratch disk:

4:37

Pretty decent improvement I'd say.
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tried again... for ***** and giggles, this time with 100% RAM allocated, and 1 history state.

3:57 this time around... probably the best i'll do until CS3 is released
 
amols said:
Here's the results I've got after setting History 1, RAM 100% (Approx 1700MB), on MBP 2.16 ghz, 5400RPM drive,

4 min 24 sec in Tiger/Rosetta/CS2 (Incl Image size)

1 min 04 sec in Bootcamp/XP2/CS2 (Incl Image size)

Looks like MBP is not far behind Quad G5 when using native apps.
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Sean Dempsey said:
This is the most important post in this thread.
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Whoa... wow. I never tried that... I honestly didn't care for bootcamp but with numbers like that, it's hard to argue.
 
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