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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

Whith 4GB RAM

Seinfeldt said:
Okay folks,

I read (almost) the whole tread now :) and it seams like an nice test, so I dont bother testing it in my PB 17", beacuse it seams like that part is covered.

So, i went home to my gaming rig which is an:

Dual Dual Core Opteron 280 2,4GHz
2GIG ram
4xSeagate Cheethas 36,6 gig's in SCSI 320 Raid 0 on an Adaptec card.
1xWestern Digital Raptor 76gig as an SWAP disk for PageFile
2 x Nvidia 7900GTX SLI
WinSHIT XP SP2
PS CS2

And did ran the test:

1.35m

I'd really hoped for an better score here, but I see it is quite memory intensive, so i guess if I had 4 gig's it would be better, also if I could have booted on the Raptor an used the SCSI array as an scratch disk.

my 2 cents


(want an MacPro) with bootcamp for gaming


peace
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Whith 4GB Ram (corsair 3500LL @ DDR 512)
51sec /History 1, cache2
72sec/History 20 cache2

AMD Athlon 2400x2, Overcl. 2,810MHzx2 Water Cooling
Corsair LL3500 Overcl. ddr 512MHz
MB Asus a8n32 sli
4xscsi Maxtor Atlas 15k, U320 Raid0
Adapter, LSI Logic 320-2E

Peace David
 
Updated Mac Pro results (I got more RAM)

Mac Pro 2.66Ghz ,6GB Radeon 7300GT, 250GB Stock HD
(plus a 250GB added HD, plus my Firewire drives and some programs always running. The system now has more RAM and is less optimized

I have a few programs that I *always* have running installed including Menu-Meters and Dragthing.

For some reason Photoshop only sees 3072MB of ram available where as Menu Meters sees 5GB. So it's using 70% of 307MB instead of* 70% of 6GB.

I left Photoshop open for all tests but closed and re-opened the test image each time. All test timed with my Sunbeam kitchen timer.

Setup 1:
6gb RAM installed
20 History States
Scratch Disk- Start Up (Stock HD)
Cache Levels 6
70% RAM used by Photoshop


1)2:11
2)2:01
3)1:57
4)1:59
5)1:56

Set-up 2: (Ran only three times, because it's BORING to run all these test :))
6gb RAM installed
1 History State
Scratch Disk- Start Up (Stock HD)
Cache Levels 1
Memory usage 100% (3072MB)
1)1:47
2)1:40
3)1:40

I made a FLICKR photoset of my new RAM at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79495787@N00/sets/72157594238362105/
(TINY URL http://tinyurl.com/lu772 )
 
tomhayes said:
For some reason Photoshop only sees 3072MB of ram available where as Menu Meters sees 5GB. So it's using 70% of 307MB instead of* 70% of 6GB.
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Photoshop CS2 for Mac OS can only access 3.5 GB of RAM, on any system.
Adobe said:
To make the most of systems running 64-bit processors, Photoshop CS2 can now address more than 2 GB of RAM. Photoshop CS2 can address approximately 3.5 GB of RAM on a Power Macintosh G5 running Mac OS X, or on a Windows XP 64-bit Edition system running an Intel® Xeon™ processor with EM64T, or an AMD Athlon™ 64 or Opteron™ processor. source
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I find their logic odd. A 32-bit application SHOULD be able to access up to 4 GB of RAM, so what is with their 2 GB limit on 32-bit, and 3.5 GB on 64-bit?

So tell it to use 100% of available memory, that should 'force' it to use the full 3.5 GB it's capable of using.

On a related note, this apparently shows that Rosetta on the Mac Pro can translate 64-bit PPC Apps into 64-bit Intel. (And has me REALLY curious as to how they're handling it. I know about the underlying way 64-bit on Intel works, and I'm really wondering how they run 64-bit and 32-bit side by side with no performance penalty.)
 
I dont remember seeing this link, perhaps it should be edited into the beginning of the thread:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/332270.html

Basically gives a layout of how to make Pshop run faster.

My favorite: "Photoshop CS2 supports up to 64 exabytes (EB) of scratch disk space on a total of four volumes. (An EB is equal to 1 billion gigabytes.)"

How long before a macpro can hold THAT many harddrves, LOL!
 
Seinfeldt said:
Okay folks,

I read (almost) the whole tread now :) and it seams like an nice test, so I dont bother testing it in my PB 17", beacuse it seams like that part is covered.

So, i went home to my gaming rig which is an:

Dual Dual Core Opteron 280 2,4GHz
2GIG ram
4xSeagate Cheethas 36,6 gig's in SCSI 320 Raid 0 on an Adaptec card.
1xWestern Digital Raptor 76gig as an SWAP disk for PageFile
2 x Nvidia 7900GTX SLI
WinSHIT XP SP2
PS CS2

And did ran the test:

1.35m

I'd really hoped for an better score here, but I see it is quite memory intensive, so i guess if I had 4 gig's it would be better, also if I could have booted on the Raptor an used the SCSI array as an scratch disk.

my 2 cents


(want an MacPro) with bootcamp for gaming


peace
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Mac Pro wont be any faster in games than your machine, because it doesnt support SLI.

BTW, isnt it insane getting a Mac for Windows?
 
Not too shabby...

2:08

Setup:
iMac G5 2 GHz
2 GB RAM
Maxtor 250 GB HD
3 partitions: Boot/Apps ~60 GB, Work ~150 GB, PS Scratch ~30 GB)
Photoshop CS (75% RAM = ~1.350 GB)

Pleasantly surprised. Beats the hell outta the old days on Quadra 900s in System 7...
 
Does anybody out there have a windows version of CS2 and a new Mac Pro that they could run the test on??? I want to see how fast these bad boys really are with a native running version of photoshop.

P.S. I got :55 on Windows x64 running an AMD x2 4400+ overclocked to 4800+ with 2GB of ram. Not too shabby eh.
 
lac2 said:
Does anybody out there have a windows version of CS2 and a new Mac Pro that they could run the test on??? I want to see how fast these bad boys really are with a native running version of photoshop.

P.S. I got :55 on Windows x64 running an AMD x2 4400+ overclocked to 4800+ with 2GB of ram. Not too shabby eh.
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I can't get it to run the test properly.

I have Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz, Bootcamp 1.1, Windows XP (non activiated) 2002 CD version, Adobe CS2 Trial on a 50GB paration. It freezes at 'Gasuian Blur'. It gets there in about 23 seconds, but it's a freeze that can't be recovered from.

Maybe a Windows update is needed, but I don't want to remove windows from my PC to run this test just yet.
 
NEW MacbookPro 2.16 / 2 gig ram

I'm nearly two week weeks away from picking up a new MacbookPro 2.16. It's taken me nearly 6 months to decide which model to go for and after two demo's, this is the one for me. It's not cheap but in time it will pay for itself. Have also pushed the boat out a little further by adding an extra gig of ram to max it out at 2 gig.

The only issue I do have is the software. All of my apps are not universal and I've been told that there could be some delay at running speeds. Keep you posted with the results.:D
 
Photoshop CS1

Times;
History States 20: 1:00
History States 1: 0:34

Setup:
Quad Core G5 2.5GHz
4GB RAM
1TB Level 0+1 Xserve RAID (boot and cache drive)
Quadro FX 4500
OS X 10.4.7

Especially with the history levels turned up this is much more a test of IO than of CPU speed.
 
macenforcer said:
Easy. This test is retarded. The times are all over the board for like machines. I can't believe this lame test has this many posts in it. The test with the horse image and the radial blur was dead on accurate. This test needs to die.
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Like I've said a few times (as I'm agreeing with you), this test is useless to anyone under 3 gigs of ram. You'll just hit your scratchdisk and sit on it for minutes. Might as well be a scratchdisk test :)

Having said that. For fun I tested a Dual PIII Xeon 550Mhz with 2gig PC100 ECC memory and an 18gig 10K drive and a 36gig 10K drive (both SCSI UW).

ready for a laugh :) 11:05 !! LOL
 
Also not sure if this would be valid to show how memory/scratchdisk the test is. I took the original image and scaled it down to 70.3% (if I remember right). This brings the initial image size from 23.4mb to 11.7 or pretty much 50%

I didnt hit the scratchdisk once and my score went down to 1:29
 
New Machine!

Dual 2.7 G5
6GB RAM
Raptor 10K 150GB Hard Drive
Hitachi 400GB Secondary (60 GB in ScratchDisk Partition)

Best Speed: 1.14

Not too shabby, considering Pshop maxxes out at 3gb of RAM, this machine should sing nicely in more real world tests, when I have Illustrator running with a bunch of junk.
 
1.25 Ghz G4 Power Mac
1.25 GB Ram
Seperate Scratch Disk
6 minutes 10 seconds

Without the Scratch Disk
11 minutes 15 seconds

I am amazed at the difference!
 
PowerMac Dual G5 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM

Default CS2 settings: 70% Memory (2032MB), 20 History States, Fresh reboot (135MB wired memory)

Scratch disk: Startup Disk 2:41.93
Scratch disk: 320GB SATA-2 2:29.72
Scratch disk: 2x320GB SATA-2 RAID0 on dedicated PCI card 2:24.18

I'm eager to test the speed with the 640GB RAID0 once the SATA PCI (dual channel) card arrives at my door. :)
 
Mac Pro 3.0

I got 1:19 with a mac pro 3.0 with history level at 1

I have 2- two drive striped raids. One for startup, one for files.
3GB ram.
 
Semptron 3100+ / CS2 - Windows

Photoshop CS2/Windows XP
Semptron 3100+ (1.8Ghz), ECS motherboard
1G RAM
1500 of swap
160G PATA seagate disk (65G free)

-7m40s (20 history state, 300%)
-5m05s (1 state, 300%)
-50s (20 states, no 300%)
-34s (1 state, no 300%)

cost of CPU+motherboard = $80 (2 months ago)

very happy with that for the price, waiting for CS3 on Leopard accelerated by OpenGL2, 64bits, multithread and the GPU.
 
Mac Pro 2.66 3GB RAM
Seagate 7200.9 250GB
Non-RAID startup disk
Seagate 7200.9 500GBx2:
RAID0: 10GB (x2) Partition 1 of both 500GB HDs
RAID1: 455GB (x1) Partition 2 of both 500GB HDs

PS CS1, all default settings (20 history states, 75% memory, etc)

First, numbers with 1GB RAM:

Scratch: Startup disk - 4:06
Scratch: RAID1 - 3:45
Scratch: RAID0 - 3:09

Second, numbers with 3GB RAM:

Scratch: Startup disk - 2:26
Scratch: RAID1 - 2:39 (huh?)
Scratch: RAID0 - 1:44

Summary:
More RAM: good.
Fast scratch disk: important.

Duh! :)
 
Mac Pro 2.66
1GB RAM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160Gb startup disk
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb scratch disk

PS CS1, all default settings (mine says 50% memory, not 75%?)

Result: 4:07

(I need more RAM! although Photoshop feels just as fast as the 1.8GHz G5 iMac I was using previously for doing web design/banner bar work. Rarely do I ever need to work on huge files...)
 
Mac Pro 2x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core
3 GB RAM (2x 512, 2x 1024), (80%)
Maxtor MaxLine Pro 500GB (3GB/s), (Scratch)

Photoshop CS2

2min. 29sec. :p
 
8:13

on a powerbook G4 1.67GHz, 1GB ram, CS2 all default settings

i feel so slow....


and from reading around the ram really makes a difference when it comes to Mac Pro and photoshop? hence the 2 min 29 sec test with 3GB ram....
 
orangephoto said:
8:13

on a powerbook G4 1.67GHz, 1GB ram, CS2 all default settings

i feel so slow....


and from reading around the ram really makes a difference when it comes to Mac Pro and photoshop? hence the 2 min 29 sec test with 3GB ram....
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It makes such a drastic difference because of Rosetta emulation.
 
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