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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

dual 2.7 and MacBook

G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, 2GB, CS1 - 3m28s - reduced performance mode (ie. quiet)
G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, 2GB, CS1 - 2m04s - best performance mode

G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, 2GB, CS2 - 5m20s - reduced performance mode (ie. quiet)
G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, 2GB, CS2 - 2m33s - best performance mode

MacBook (black), 2.0GHz, 2GB, CS2 - 5m16s (best performance mode)

Both running 10.47
 
1:07 PowerMac G5 2 x 2GHz Rev.B / 2.5 GB RAM

PowerMac G5 2 x 2GHz Rev.B / 2.5 GB RAM / 160GB std + 300GB maxtor HD's / GeForce FX 5200 64MB

quite a range of times, depending on Photoshop settings...

BEST TIME:
1:07 (Memory Usage: 70% of 1833MB avail.= 1283MB; History States: 1; Cache Levels: 4)


OTHER TIMES:

1:16 (Memory Usage: 100%; History States: 1; Cache Levels: 4)
– same time with test repeated immediately after restart

1:13 (Memory Usage: 70%; History States: 1; Cache Levels: 4)

2:18 (Memory Usage: 70%; History States: 5; Cache Levels: 4)

2:17 (Memory Usage: 70%; History States: 10; Cache Levels: 4)

2:33 (Memory Usage: 70%; History States: 20; Cache Levels: 4)


WORST TIME:
3:07 (first test - Memory Usage: 50%; History States: 20; Cache Levels: 4)



'HAL' PowerMac G5 2 x 2GHz Rev.B (July 2004)
2.5 GB RAM (2 x 256MB, 4 x 512 MB)
160GB Stock SATA HD - ST3160023AS (Seagate?)
300GB Maxtor SATA- 6B300S0
Std. NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 64MB driving 2 x SAMSUNG SyncMaster710v's - 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz

Photoshop CS1 (version 8.0) running as only app. on OS 10.4.7

Photoshop, test file & primary scratch on 160GB startup disk.
300GB Maxtor in 2nd internal bay set as secondary scratch.

31.49GB available on startup disk with no apps running
30.93GB available with Photoshop launched / no files open
24.37GB available at end of test (with history set to 20)

15.76GB available on secondary scratch (unused during test)
 
Marx55 said:
I finally did it! Thanks (triangle on the left; the one on the top right allows to delete actions). These are my results (do not laugh)... :)

PowerMac G4/500 AGP
1 MB RAM
Booting from external FireWire disk
Photoshop CS2 9.0
Time: 11 min : 35 sec

Wow!
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I hope you meant 1 GB RAM...:rolleyes: :D
 
G5 Dual 2.3

2:10

G5 Dual core 2.3
256 Mb 6600
250 GB HD (113 free)
4.5 Gb RAM
Photoshop CS1

For comparison, my PC at work:
5:50
Pentum D 1.7 (something like that - forgot exact)
1 GB RAM
256 Mb graphics
Photoshop CS2
 
When will the Retouch Artists site show results?

Baked Beans:

When will the Retouch Artists site show results?




BakedBeans said:
Standardized benchmarking like this was discussed in the Establishing Standard Benchmarks thread, this however is a Photoshop specific test where as benchmarks discussed in that thread was for lots of different applications.

This speed test is in the form of an action and test image for photoshop and will perform a series of tests to determine how fast your system can perform them, the test must be done with the included image to insure uniformity.

This test has been tested by professional photographers, photoshop professionals and lowly retouch artists! and all are in agreement that this test represents a large amount of the people that use photoshop, although the action could obviously not cater for every element otherwise it would be far to complex for slower systems.

you can download the retouchartists.com speed test from Here


Thanks to MacRumors for being part of this test.

Edit

Please post system specs and software version detail in the thread (rather than "see in sig") so that people know what the system was even when you change your signature. Thanks.
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G5 2x2Ghz

G5 Rev A 2x2Ghz
4.5Gb RAM
Raptor 150 boot drive on Firmtek PCI controller
Raptor 74 scratch
10.4.7 set on "highest" performance in Energy Saver.
CS2, 70% Ram allocation, 40 history states

2 mins 9 secs
2 mins 15secs (repeat)

These were the best, each immediately after a reboot. Ater a period of use it comes in around 2 mins 50secs.

Really looking forward to seeing MacPro results with reasonable RAM (4Gb plus) under Rosetta, and with 20+history states.
 
powermac G5 single 1.8GHz G5 (600MHz bus) 3GB ram, 10.4.7, cs2

3 mins 58 seconds (at 90% ram usage in photoshop options)
 
2 minutes 5 seconds.

The system uses the HD near the end of the test (gaussian blur calc.) so it should be 20 seconds faster with more RAM.

I saw someone had a really better result on a dual 2.7 PM, which Photoshop version did you use ?

PM dual 2.7GHz G5 - 2 GB DDR SDRAM
OSX 10.4.7 - Photoshop CS 8.0.1
 
Dual Opteron 280 = quad 2.4ghz opteron
WinXP SP2
4GB RAM, although windows SP2 can only use 3GB arghh...
Photoshop CS2
150gb raptor+Raid 6 array

History Level = 1
90% Ram = 1565MB
Cache Level = 6


0:50

50 seconds.

Glenn
 
same settings as above 20 history states

1:34

ran it twice and times were identical. I have a 90% full 12x400gb Raid 6 array which may be making some of the performance gains.
 
54 seconds !

With a clean system (killed some useless processes, speechsynthserver, norton...) after a reboot.

Memory Usage: 100%; History States: 1; Cache Levels: 4

PM dual 2.7GHz G5
2 GB DDR SDRAM
OSX 10.4.7
Photoshop CS 8.0.1

Note : this time the system never use the HD during the test run.
 
I just ran it a second time and the result is identical.
Well it's important to kill processes, have the maximum amount of free RAM available, and change photoshop settings to 100% of RAM, history states 1.
Because the same system can perform more than 200% slower if this is not set up like this.
Some should add this to the readme file supplied with the test script.
 
MacBook 2.0 w/2GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.7 and Photoshop CS. Edit: Photoshop settings: 20 History States, 4 Cache Levels and Maximum RAM 50% = 888 MB.

While running Bon Echo (aka Firefox) 2.0a3, Mail and iTunes (playing songs over AirTunes), i.e. pretty standard working environment (;)): 6' 02"

Hmmm... seems my MacBook did relatively better on the other test...
 
Mike Boreham said:
G5 Rev A 2x2Ghz
4.5Gb RAM
Raptor 150 boot drive on Firmtek PCI controller
Raptor 74 scratch
10.4.7 set on "highest" performance in Energy Saver.
CS2, 70% Ram allocation, 40 history states

2 mins 9 secs
2 mins 15secs (repeat)

These were the best, each immediately after a reboot. Ater a period of use it comes in around 2 mins 50secs.

Really looking forward to seeing MacPro results with reasonable RAM (4Gb plus) under Rosetta, and with 20+history states.
Click to expand...

Just repeated the above twice, without a reboot, and got 1 min 44 secs. There seems to be some variablity in this test, but it may be my machine which I have noticed sometimes seems faster than others for reasons I have not managed to pin down.

Mike
 
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7 GHz // 3 GB RAM // nVidia GeForce 6800U DDL

Photoshop CS // 1 History State // 4 Cache Level // 75% Memory = 1278MB
0:50 min

Photoshop CS // 99 History States // 4 Cache Level // 75% Memory = 1278MB
1:40 min… Twice as long.

More or less the same as sh1va. But I didn't kill all the apps, only had Safari, iTunes, Adium and Activity Monitor on.

Edit // I'll keep updating this with new results…
 
PM Dual Core G5/2,3GHz | 2,5Gb (otherwise stock) | CS1 = 2 min 10 sec
PM Dual Core G5/2,3GHz | 2,5Gb (otherwise stock) | CS2 = 1 min 45 sec

PB G4/1,67GHz | 2Gb (otherwise stock) | CS2 = 5 min 55 sec
 
speed test on pc

I am about to splurge on a mac pro. Meantime, I thought it would be interesting to run the test on my pc for comparison. Here are the results:

test result: 3min 59sec


system: Dell Dimension 8300, Pentium(R) 4 CPU, 3.39GHz, 3.25 GB of RAM
 
Curious

I tried CS1 against CS2 as well and got entirely different results, that actually confuse me:

G5 dual 2.0 with 3.5gig ram

CS1: 2:09

CS2: 2:52

Ran both twice with the exact same results.
 
Red Panda said:
I tried CS1 against CS2 as well and got entirely different results
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Did you check your history states and memory usage in CS1 and CS2 preferences?
 
spicyapple said:
Did you check your history states and memory usage in CS1 and CS2 preferences?
Click to expand...


Both Cs1 and Cs2 had history set to 20

the only difference was that cs1 cache was at 4
and cs2 cache was at 6. I'll set them the to be the same and see what i get.
 
Nice benchmark test BakedBeans. :)

I'm utterly shocked how terrible my PC at home fared especially compared to my G5 at work.

Results:

(Work)
G5 1.8 single processor
1256 ram
19.15g free for scratch on startup volume
4 cache
CS 1
1 history - 3:28
20 histories - 4:07

(Home)
P4 3.0C HT
1g ram
39g free for scratch on startup volume
4 cache
CS 2
1 history - 9:26
20 histories - 26:39

I knew the G5 was supposedly the most efficient cpu on the planet, but good lord I didn't think it was THAT efficient. Talk about a mythbust; I would've never guessed that my PC could appear to be a "slouch" but I have since been proven wrong. Now I see how well design apps like Photoshop truly run on the Mac platform...color me very impressed. Now if only I had the money for the MacPro. *sigh* Probably have to suffer in Windows land 'til next year...:(
 
cs1 vs cs2

OK

I set the history to 1, cache to 4

CS1: 1:22

CS2: 1:56

G5 Dual 2.0 3.5g ram

If I had to guess... maybe CS2 works better with dual-core machines and CS1 works better with my dual processor?
 
I'm also pretty amazed at how 18month+ old G5s are just killing the Windows PCs here....

woo hoo since I'm the owner of one of those G5s.

I'm also pretty disappointed that after all that time and all this hype about how friggin' fast Core2 Merom chips are and how much more of an upgrade a Woodcrest is over them that there still isn't a faster Photoshop machine.... yeah, yeah, I know, it can be attributed to growing pains with the processor transition and Adobe not coming out with a universal binary yet, but still I would have hoped for some Moore's law to start hitting the Photoshop world. I reguarly work with thousands of 6 MP images at a time and manipulate 12000x6000 multi-layered documents so the more power, the better!

Tim
www.imagefactoryphotography.com
 
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