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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

envy!

Been reading this to gauge relative speeds of intel-based machines before buying second-hand. Awesome thread!

Just for a hoot I ran my soon-to-be-replaced Powermac G4 mirror door - 2x1.42GHz, 2GB RAM, separate 170GB scratch disk.

2min 20 sec. Pretty respectable for an 8-year old machine.

Still, I'm coveting some of these newer machines!
 
1min 50s or 110s using PS CS 8.0

Seems slow.

1min 20s or 80secs on 2nd run with History states set to 1.

Still seems slow. :confused:

Downloaded latest Trial and now get 20 secs. But it behaves strangely on sunsequent runs, taking 4 or 5 mins.

Re-run 23s first run and then 18 after warming ram up as per Digiloyd
 
I get 12.0 seconds using PS CS5 12.0.1 64bit.
Second run was 15.1 seconds.
Did I do something wrong?
 
12.7 secs each on three tests.

Mac Pro 3.33ghz 6 core 2010, 6 gig ram, 5870 card - CS5.
 
15.6 seconds on 3.2 quad after second run. Just added 8GB more RAM today, total of 10GB.:D:D
 
1 min 27 sec, 1 min 23 sec.

Macbook core 2 duo 2ghz, 4gb ram, 320gb 7200rpm hdd.

I can haz my mac pro now plz?
 
vladid said:
33 seconds on the latest PS CS5.
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Did I do something wrong? I changed my Photoshop CS5 settings, as descirbed in the PDF document and I get 39 sec on my MacBook Pro mid 2007.
edit: after reboot and running the test 3 more times the average was 44 sec.

2.4Ghz Merom CPU
4GB Ram
7200 RPM HD 160GB
8600M GT 256MB DDR3
 
21,70 seconds with a stock Mac Pro Mid 2010 QC 2.8 GHz just a few minutes after its first boot.
 
Sean Dempsey said:
Results:

Mac Pro Quad Core 2.66ghz
5 gigs RAM total, CS3 set to 100% = 3072 megs
Scratch disk 1 = RaptorX 150gog 10,000rpm
Scratch disk 2 = Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm partition
Video = nvidia7300

Settings were set to test specs.

Completed time: 36 seconds
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3 years later!
Same computer, here's what changed:
CS5
Snow Leopard
SSD Boot/Apps drive.


New Speed test results: 28 seconds. That's a 23% increase. I don't know how much CS5 and Snow Leopard impacts the test, but I am going to assume that newer software and OS on the same, older machine isn't going to necessarily make it any faster.



There you go, proof of the SSD.
 
Sean Dempsey said:
3 years later! I don't know how much CS5 and Snow Leopard impacts the test, but I am going to assume that newer software and OS on the same, older machine isn't going to necessarily make it any faster.[/B]
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Nope.

Had the old tests around 27secs (tiger and leopard,cs2+3) and now tested snowleo with both. 27 secs.

CS5 might shave a ounce or two,but with snow leo,but worth upgrading...nah...

Waiting for CS8 and 24 core MPs...
 
Did finally get a new Mac:
2010 MAC Pro
3.33 GHz 6 core Xeon
12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
PS scratch disk was an outer 100 GB stripe of a RAID 0 array with two WD RE3 1 TB drives. Not sure if that would matter for this test.
Graphics card was standard 5770
Set up PS according to instructions
Time: 18 seconds
Big improvement over my old system. :)

BobD2 said:
I ran the test according to the instructions (history states = 1, Cache level = 4, memory usage 100%).
Time: 7 min 20 sec

Dual 800 MHz G4
1.12 MB SDRAM
Dual 60 GB IBM hard drives (stock with that machine at the time) -- one with apps, OS, the other, with about 51 GB free space, as scratch disk.
Standard video card available at the time (GeForce2 TwinView)
CS3
OS X 10.4.11

Might be time for a new Mac
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confused

MP 1.1 2x3.0GHz, 12GB RAM, 2x1TB drives (one OS and files, one scratch).

OS10.5 & CS2

History @1, Cache@3, Memory usage @ 100% (showing 3GB),

Result: 55sec.

After seeing other results from other 1.1 machines, I was expecting around 30-40 seconds. Must be CS2 slowing it down.
 
MaxiKana said:
1 min 27 sec, 1 min 23 sec.

Macbook core 2 duo 2ghz, 4gb ram, 320gb 7200rpm hdd.

I can haz my mac pro now plz?
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This test isn't that great of a benchmark tbh. Using lightroom (which itself is piss-poor at using multiple cores) as a benchmark compared to my old macbook this computer is a bit more than 6 times faster. Exporting the exact same photos with exact same settings took 46 minutes with the MP when it took 4 hours and 36 minutes on my old macbook. Talk about improvement! I no longer have to run my computer on overnight exporting!

Right-o, having three browsers open with one running a rather heavy java app, mail, iCal, iTunes and a chat app open I run the test in 24 seconds cold and about 18 seconds warm. I bet I could get a better time by having only photoshop open.

MP 5,1
3.2 ghz QC
10 GB RAM (2x 4GB 2x 1GB)
2x 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint f3
1x 1TB WD Caviar black
 
MaxiKana said:
This test isn't that great of a benchmark tbh. Using lightroom (which itself is piss-poor at using multiple cores) as a benchmark compared to my old macbook this computer is a bit more than 6 times faster. Exporting the exact same photos with exact same settings took 46 minutes with the MP when it took 4 hours and 36 minutes on my old macbook. Talk about improvement! I no longer have to run my computer on overnight exporting!

Right-o, having three browsers open with one running a rather heavy java app, mail, iCal, iTunes and a chat app open I run the test in 24 seconds cold and about 18 seconds warm. I bet I could get a better time by having only photoshop open.

MP 5,1
3.2 ghz QC
10 GB RAM (2x 4GB 2x 1GB)
2x 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint f3
1x 1TB WD Caviar black
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Scratch that. I put the memory in the preferred spots (I forgot when I first booted that os x warned me the memory would perform better if it were switched over). I just switched the memory so the two 4gb pieces are in slot 1 and 2 and the 1gbs in slot 3 and four.

The new times are:

Cold: 18 sec

Warm: 16 sec

A bit of an improvement I'd say.
 
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