'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

[sneezymarble]

1min 29sec
I did this just so you can see how much faster macs are.

HP dv6700 notebook pc, AMD Turion 64 X2 2.00 GHz, 3 GB ram, Vista 32-bit operating system, Photoshop CS4

I don't see how that shows Macs are faster since there are tons of non-Macs that are faster than that and there are plenty of non-Macs that are faster than the Macs that are faster than your HP notebook...So, yeah...

 

[Blue Fox]

Has anyone ran this on both Vista/XP and OS X on the same Mac?

Meaning, if someone out there (for some reason) that has Photoshop for both Windows and OS X on the same Mac. Can you run a test using both operating systems to see if the operating system makes a difference. I don't think there would be much of a difference "if any", but it would be interested to know for sure. You never know.

 

[Burntorangeappl]

2009 Mac Pro Quad 2.66, 6GB RAM, 2x WD Studio 750GB scratch disks, CS4 Extended 1 History state, 4 cache, Safari and Firefox running in background:
20.4 seconds.

 

[joaoferro37]

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.

Did you test with external RAID such as CineRAID or ProAVIO?

 

[adrianr]

I did this just so you can see how much faster macs are.

See post #789, download that larger TIFF file and run it on your Mac Pro and report back.

 

[xEradx]

See post #789, download that larger TIFF file and run it on your Mac Pro and report back.

I cant run it on my mac pro because the CS4 i have is for windows. Im downloading it now to test it on the HP laptop now...

See post #789, download that larger TIFF file and run it on your Mac Pro and report back.

I gave up after 18min. It was taking way too long on my HP Pavilion dv6000. Like I said I don't have CS4 for my mac pro so cant run test on that.

 

[doox00]

The link is broken in the first post to download the speed test file, where can I get it at?

I ran an xbench on my hackintosh, results here

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=381777

 

[Infrared]

The link is broken in the first post to download the speed test file, where can I get it at?

Yeah, what has happened to the good old retouch artists site?

 

[EricksonPhoto]

Results

57 Minutes and 10 seconds

Dell Inspiron 9200 - Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium M - 1 GB RAM - 40GB HDD with 5GB free space - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB - Photoshop CS2 running on Windows XP Pro

I can't f*cking wait to get a new computer! Trying to decide between building a desktop beast or buying a MacBook Pro. Having to deal with such a slug makes me want to build a beast of a PC. Then again, PCs need to be rebuilt regularly or even quad cores will run slow, so the Mac sounds better. I just wish Apple made an affordable version of the Mac Pro based off the Q6600 for around a grand; speed, frugality and scalability. Now there's a thought.

 

[sneezymarble]

I just wish Apple made an affordable version of the Mac Pro based off the Q6600 for around a grand; speed, frugality and scalability. Now there's a thought.

Apple does make such a Mac, but that doesn't mean you can't. My Q6600 system has been going strong for two years at or above 3.6GHz on air. You could build a decent Q6600 based system for like $500 these days with some smart shopping, and this thing still renders and photoshops with the best of em.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

OP's link is broken, does anyone else know how to download this?

 

[kxfrog]

The link is broken in the first post to download the speed test file, where can I get it at?

I ran an xbench on my hackintosh, results here

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=381777

a proper mac

http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=390563&doc2=1&setCookie=true

 

[OmiKnight52]

I got 4min on macbook 2.16ghz Core2Duo 2.5gb Adobe potoshop cs(powerpc)

57 Minutes and 10 seconds

Dell Inspiron 9200 - Intel 2.0 GHz Pentium M - 1 GB RAM - 40GB HDD with 5GB free space - ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB - Photoshop CS2 running on Windows XP Pro

I can't f*cking wait to get a new computer! Trying to decide between building a desktop beast or buying a MacBook Pro. Having to deal with such a slug makes me want to build a beast of a PC. Then again, PCs need to be rebuilt regularly or even quad cores will run slow, so the Mac sounds better. I just wish Apple made an affordable version of the Mac Pro based off the Q6600 for around a grand; speed, frugality and scalability. Now there's a thought.

look around for Refurbished with good warranty and maybe apple care. I bought a refurbished with minor scratches but it works perfect.

 

[Bennieboy©]

2 minutes 33 seconds
Powermac G5 dual cpu 2.0ghz, 5 gigs a ram

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

I FOUND IT! You can download the action here.

16.5 seconds here. 2009 Mac Pro Quad Core i7 975 Extreme @ 3.33 GHz w/ 16 GB RAM, Corsair P256 SSD boot drive, 2 TB RAID 5 scratch disk, CS4. I suppose the extra RAM and SSD don't matter much since everything seems to happen within CS4's 3 GB RAM space. Seems fast to me!

 

[DNA930]

27 seconds.

Q9400 at 2.67Ghz, 8GB RAM, 300GB Veloceraptor, CS4.
Not OC'ed. How much additional performance will OC get me?

 

[sneezymarble]

27 seconds.

Q9400 at 2.67Ghz, 8GB RAM, 300GB Veloceraptor, CS4.
Not OC'ed. How much additional performance will OC get me?

Well, with my Q6600 at 3.7GHz I can get 19 seconds. May or may not be worth it to you though. You be the judge.

 

[itsadoozy]

Just ran this test in CS4, and it took 23.74 seconds first try after reboot and setting preferences as per the readme file.

Did the test a few more times and it varies from 19.86 sec to 27.08 sec.

My Mac spec is:

Model Name: Mac Pro 8-Core 2nd Gen (Jan 2008 model)
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 13 GB

 

[irishgrizzly]

Same specs as itsadoozy above, except 8gb ram.

CS3 – 35 secs – ok, much better than the last time I tried

Jun 9, 2006

9:35 sec

iBook
1.07ghz
768gb ram
80gb 5,400rpm hd
Photoshop CS1

 

[kxfrog]

17.53 secons on my 2.66ghz nehalem mac pro. 3gb of ram. gt120. seagate + wd hd as scratchdisks.

 

[KP Nuts]

28 seconds

Mac Pro 2 x 2.26 GHZ, 16GB ram, x2 160 Intel 25 G2 SSD in raid stripe.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

41.3 seconds

2.93 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with 6GB

 

[tsfoto]

27,5 sec

Win7 64-bit
AMD Phenom II X4 945 3GHz
8GB DDR
CS4 - 64-bit

 

[Angelo95210]

CS3
MBP Core Duo 2 Ghz 1.5 GB = 3 min 28 sec
iMac Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz 2 GB = 42 sec

 

[KeriJane]

53-54 seconds

Mac Pro 1.1, 2.66ghz quad (2x2core XEON) 8GB, 8800GT, WD Caviar Black 1TB system drive / RAID0 Scratch Drive, OSX 10.6.2, Photoshop CS4.


Still plenty fast for me,

Have Fun,
Keri