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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test
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I have a stock Dual 2.66 Mac Pro. I have added two Kingston 1GB KVR667D2D8F5/1G with stock heat spreaders. I also have a 7200rpm 120gb PATA 8mb cache HD with WinXP X64. My computer room is on my 3rd floor and is anything but cool. I have run this test 4 times in each OS, with the same settings, eachtime after a fresh reboot. I have NO ECC errors on this ram. The fans are not running at any noticable levels. The PATA drive is the noisiest component.
I used the stopwatch feature on my iPod and got the following averages
History States:1
Cache Levels: 6
Allocated Memory 80%
Original un-altered (with resize)Test Action x 4
OS X : 1.01s <= Stock Sata drive
XP x64: 0.33s <= PATA 72k 120gb
Others with similar set-ups seem to be getting worse times. In some cases MUCH worse.
All in all I'm happy with my MP. Even under rosetta PS is VERY useable (but not the most stable, i.e. I will sometimes need to do a force quit to get it to close). This is only my second Mac. I'm coming from a MacMini G4 1.42ghz, so just slightly faster
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I have a stock Dual 2.66 Mac Pro. I have added two Kingston 1GB KVR667D2D8F5/1G with stock heat spreaders. I also have a 7200rpm 120gb PATA 8mb cache HD with WinXP X64. My computer room is on my 3rd floor and is anything but cool. I have run this test 4 times in each OS, with the same settings, eachtime after a fresh reboot. I have NO ECC errors on this ram. The fans are not running at any noticable levels. The PATA drive is the noisiest component.
I used the stopwatch feature on my iPod and got the following averages
History States:1
Cache Levels: 6
Allocated Memory 80%
Original un-altered (with resize)Test Action x 4
OS X : 1.01s <= Stock Sata drive
XP x64: 0.33s <= PATA 72k 120gb
Others with similar set-ups seem to be getting worse times. In some cases MUCH worse.
All in all I'm happy with my MP. Even under rosetta PS is VERY useable (but not the most stable, i.e. I will sometimes need to do a force quit to get it to close). This is only my second Mac. I'm coming from a MacMini G4 1.42ghz, so just slightly faster
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stealiesubee said:This is only my second Mac. I'm coming from a MacMini G4 1.42ghz, so just slightly faster
Yes, just slightly faster.
15" MacBook Pro 2.0GHz
2GB RAM
80GB 5400RPM Hard drive
1 history state
100% RAM usage (1800MB)
3:41.76 Minutes
That's just slightly faster than my iBook which took 15 Minutes
2GB RAM
80GB 5400RPM Hard drive
1 history state
100% RAM usage (1800MB)
3:41.76 Minutes
That's just slightly faster than my iBook which took 15 Minutes
1.5 GHz Powerbook G4
1GB RAM (2x512)
80GB Toshiba HD (stock drive... 4200rpm I think?)
Time: 7:06
Looks like my sad little outdated Powerbook is holding up alright. I'd love to cut that time in half with a new MBP though. Rosetta or not, I'm sure it'll run circles around this one.
Anyone who's made a similar switch have any input here?? Will I notice a bit difference in speed under Rosetta from MBP to iMac C2D to Mac Pro? Or does Rosetta bottleneck the whole thing anyway?
1GB RAM (2x512)
80GB Toshiba HD (stock drive... 4200rpm I think?)
Time: 7:06
Looks like my sad little outdated Powerbook is holding up alright. I'd love to cut that time in half with a new MBP though. Rosetta or not, I'm sure it'll run circles around this one.
Anyone who's made a similar switch have any input here?? Will I notice a bit difference in speed under Rosetta from MBP to iMac C2D to Mac Pro? Or does Rosetta bottleneck the whole thing anyway?
I just switched from a 14" iBook G4 1.33GHz 768MB RAM 4200RPM HD to a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro 2GB RAM, 5400RPM HD and it feels pretty fast and as my results show the MBP is 5 times faster than my iBook. Although I haven't had to mess with photoshop much yet.clintob said:
2.16ghz wk40, 15" MBP with 2gb RAM
Anybody tell me why I can get 1m24s consistantly? Seems way too fast.
History 20, Cache 4, RAM 70%
Beats the hell out of me.
If I take History to 1 with RAM at 100% I'm at 1m25s
If I take History to 20 with RAM at 100% I'm at 1m34s
All times very consistant.
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Anybody tell me why I can get 1m24s consistantly? Seems way too fast.
History 20, Cache 4, RAM 70%
Beats the hell out of me.
If I take History to 1 with RAM at 100% I'm at 1m25s
If I take History to 20 with RAM at 100% I'm at 1m34s
All times very consistant.
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nope, promised I wouldn't soil my MBP...iBookG4user said:
I start out with a 3.43mb test image and end up with 137mb IIRC. Sound right?
iMac 24inch, 7600 card, 2GB
everything closed, 100% RAM to PS, CS2 running under Rosetta (but you wouldn't know it), 1 history state.
I ran the test twice 2min 44sec first time
and then
1 min 45 sec the second time.
I think that's pretty damn amazing. Only slow down was on the Gaussian Blur. Otherwise zippity zip!
I've found Rosetta to be dead clever. CS3 will make a lot of my progress bars disappear.
This iMac is a powerImac as far as I'm concerned.
everything closed, 100% RAM to PS, CS2 running under Rosetta (but you wouldn't know it), 1 history state.
I ran the test twice 2min 44sec first time
and then
1 min 45 sec the second time.
I think that's pretty damn amazing. Only slow down was on the Gaussian Blur. Otherwise zippity zip!
I've found Rosetta to be dead clever. CS3 will make a lot of my progress bars disappear.
This iMac is a powerImac as far as I'm concerned.
Power Mac Quad G5
42 seconds
quad core 2.5 G5
4 GB RAM - DDR2 PC4200
Startup Disk: 10k WD Raptor 150GB
Scratch disk on Startup
All network adapters active
OSX 10.4.8 CS2 v9.0.2
History state =1
Cache levels = 4
100% RAM usage
42 seconds
quad core 2.5 G5
4 GB RAM - DDR2 PC4200
Startup Disk: 10k WD Raptor 150GB
Scratch disk on Startup
All network adapters active
OSX 10.4.8 CS2 v9.0.2
History state =1
Cache levels = 4
100% RAM usage
extreme c2d x6800
47 seconds
asus mobo
x6800
2 gigs ram
2 150 raptors raid 0
history staes 1
60% ram to cs2
47 seconds
asus mobo
x6800
2 gigs ram
2 150 raptors raid 0
history staes 1
60% ram to cs2
Test Result:
on TiPBG4 867 with 1GB Ram with CS2
7 mins 27 sec
on iBookG4 1.33 with 1GB Ram with CS2
8 mins 34 sec
on TiPBG4 867 with 1GB Ram with CS2
7 mins 27 sec
on iBookG4 1.33 with 1GB Ram with CS2
8 mins 34 sec
PC
Intel P4 3.0Ghz with HT
3gb Ram
Xp Pro SP2
Photoshop CS2
1st run : 1:56
2nd run : 1:37
I should be getting a new Mac Pro in a week or so.
look forward to seeing what the difference will be (hopefully some)
Intel P4 3.0Ghz with HT
3gb Ram
Xp Pro SP2
Photoshop CS2
1st run : 1:56
2nd run : 1:37
I should be getting a new Mac Pro in a week or so.
look forward to seeing what the difference will be (hopefully some)
I finally got another 1Gb of RAM (total of 2Gb now).
Reran the test and I got 1:22 with 1 history state, and 2:06 with 20 history states.
Nice improvement
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 at stock speed
4 gig DDR2 533 (XP sees only 3 gig of it however)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 with 1 history and 60% memory allocated
54.7 seconds using a stopwatch
4 gig DDR2 533 (XP sees only 3 gig of it however)
Adobe Photoshop CS2 with 1 history and 60% memory allocated
54.7 seconds using a stopwatch
Did the retouchartists.com test on my Mac Pro 2.66 w/3GB of RAM. Ran the test back to back with Mail, Itunes, bittorrent, and iChat open. Default settings in Photoshop CS2 and CS3.
CS2 - 2:45
CS3 - 2:24
I will go ahead and redo them after fresh reboots and post results.
EDIT: Results after fresh reboots.
CS2 - 1:57
CS3 - 1:28
This is all still with the default settings (20 history states and 70% memory usage). I guess Rosetta has been doing one hell of a job translating all this time.
CS2 - 2:45
CS3 - 2:24
I will go ahead and redo them after fresh reboots and post results.
EDIT: Results after fresh reboots.
CS2 - 1:57
CS3 - 1:28
This is all still with the default settings (20 history states and 70% memory usage). I guess Rosetta has been doing one hell of a job translating all this time.
Did the retouchartists.com test on my Mac Pro 2.66 w/3GB of RAM. Ran the test back to back with Mail, Itunes, bittorrent, and iChat open. Default settings in Photoshop CS2 and CS3.
CS2 - 2:45
CS3 - 2:24
I will go ahead and redo them after fresh reboots and post results.
EDIT: Results after fresh reboots.
CS2 - 1:57
CS3 - 1:28
This is all still with the default settings (20 history states and 70% memory usage). I guess Rosetta has been doing one hell of a job translating all this time.
Doesnt seem very impressive
Doesnt seem very impressive
Yeah, not that much faster. I've seen one other test at 1:10 for CS2 and then 0:32 for CS3. Thats the same speed as a quad G5 in CS2. So I wonder what the Quad G5s will run this at in CS3.
More data please!
WOW, My Mac Pro took 40 seconds to finish 'Retouch Artists Speed Test'!!!!
Setup is 2.66Ghz Mac Pro with 3GB RAM, stock 160GB HD. PS CS3 is demo and history states has been set to 1, 70% memory.
SEIKO stop watch.
EDIT: 36.8 seconds on second run with 100% memory.
I have to say I'm impressed for just a beta version.
Setup is 2.66Ghz Mac Pro with 3GB RAM, stock 160GB HD. PS CS3 is demo and history states has been set to 1, 70% memory.
SEIKO stop watch.
EDIT: 36.8 seconds on second run with 100% memory.
I have to say I'm impressed for just a beta version.
My results Mac Pro 2.66 6GB RAM ATI X1900XT
1:33 with 20 history states and 70% memory with stock drive.
1:22 with 20 history states and 70% memory on 2x250 internal raid.
:50 with 100% memory and 1 history state stock drive.
:51 with 100% memory and 1 history states 2x250 internal raid.
After each test I quit the program and reloaded the image.
It did it once in :36 seconds but it was anomaly.
My CS2 results were 2:11 for 20 states and 70% history and 1:40 for 1 history state and 100% memory.
1:33 with 20 history states and 70% memory with stock drive.
1:22 with 20 history states and 70% memory on 2x250 internal raid.
:50 with 100% memory and 1 history state stock drive.
:51 with 100% memory and 1 history states 2x250 internal raid.
After each test I quit the program and reloaded the image.
It did it once in :36 seconds but it was anomaly.
My CS2 results were 2:11 for 20 states and 70% history and 1:40 for 1 history state and 100% memory.