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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

2009 Mac Pro 4.1
2.66 Ghz Quad
16GB RAM 1066Mhz
Nvidia GT120 512MB
640Gb Standart HDD

19.5s

Photoshop CS5. Fresh boot, nothing else running.
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SSD will arrive tomorrow. I'll throw a GTX570 2.5GB in and I think about getting the W3565 3.2Ghz Quad CPU. I'll do the speedtest again, let's see what's going to happen then :D
 
2010 Mac Pro 5,1 @ hex 3.33
16 GB RAM
GTX 570 2.5GB
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD boot and scratch on ASM PCIe card
Photoshop CS6 trial version

11.2 seconds
 
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early 2011 MBP/15"/2GHz/8GB

19.55 seconds (on CS5)


early 2011 MBP 15", 2GHz, 8GB RAM

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
 
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Mac Pro 4,1 Early 2009
2x 2.93 GHz Quad Core X5570
16GB RAM 1066MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2TB HDD boot drive
OSX 10.8.1
CS 6

15.5 seconds
 
Macmini3,1
Mac Mini Late 2009
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz
8GB RAM
OS X 10.6.8

Photoshop CS5 Extended (x64)

40.0s

Same result whether using external FW800 7200rpm as the scratch disk or using the internal 5400rpm system disk - but not sure if this makes a difference to this test anyway.

EDIT: forgot that the 8GB RAM I added probably means that the machine didn't even hit the scratch disk; hence the same result irrespective of which drive it was on.
 
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retried with CS6⎯⎯⎯>

Retried with CS6:
16.03 seconds (tested repeatedly)

My MBP seems to be faster in executing this action with CS6 than with CS5 (see quoted post below).


Joseph Farrugia said:
19.55 seconds (on CS5)


early 2011 MBP 15", 2GHz, 8GB RAM

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
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Mac Pro 4,1 Early 2009
2x 2.26 GHz Quad Core
24GB RAM 1066MHz
GTX 570 2.5GB
SSD boot drive
OSX 10.8.1
CS 6 Ext

13.8 sec
 
Mac Pro 4,1 2.66 Quad
6gb RAM
GeForce GT 120 512mb
CS 5
OSX 10.7.5

19.3 seconds

Not bad for a 3 year old setup. I'll post updated times after a few ram/GPU/SSD upgrades.
 
Mac Pro @ Work

Mac Pro 4,1
2 x 2.26GHz Quad Core Xeons
24 GB Ram
3 x 2TB WD Caviar Green in Raid 0
2 x 128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 in Raid 0, each plugged into a PCIe slot using Apricorn Velocity Solo X2 (slots 2 and 4 used)
EVGA GTX 570HD 2.5GB from MacVidCards
Adobe CS6 Master Collection with latest updates installed
OS X 10.8.2 with supplemental update installed.

Average time over 3 runs: 12.4 seconds

Will try this at home with basically the same configuration but MacPro5,1 with 2x2.4GHz Quad Core Xeons.
 
2012 13" MacBook Air, 8G ram, CS 6

2GHz Dual Intel Core i7
8GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
256GB Flash

40s
 
2012 Mac Pro
Single 3.33 Ghz 6-Core Xeon
24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC RAM

240 GB OWC Mercury Accelsior PCI Express SSD

OS 10.8.2 & Photoshop CS 5.1


11.7 seconds

I'm blaming the PCI SSD for this score, as far as I can tell it's the single most important thing in my machine now.
 
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Benchmark Test on my 'New' Refurbished iMac

Mid-2011 27" iMac
3.4 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7
8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB
250 GB Apple SSD

Average score over 5 runs: 11.2 seconds

I'll run it again later this week once I've upgraded to my memory to 16 GB.

I'm curious to see how the new 27" models compare.

Edit: 16GB RAM upgrade gave negligible speed increases.
 
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Tried it today on the HMMWV
2700k@4.6
560Ti 448
32GB DDR3 1600
10.8.2
CS5.5

my watch say's 9.7 seconds
 
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me said:
Mac Pro 4,1 Early 2009
2x 2.93 GHz Quad Core X5570
16GB RAM 1066MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
2TB HDD boot drive
OSX 10.8.1
CS 6

15.5 seconds
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Repeated with
256GB Samsung 830 boot drive, brought by Santa Claus ;)
(mounted in lower optical bay via OWC Multi-Mount)
4TB scratch volume (2x 2TB HD in Raid 0 via Apple Raid Card)
OSX 10.8.2
CS6 / PS 13.0.1

Average score out of 5 runs:
~ 11.0 seconds
 
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Speed test results

12.5 secs
PS CS6, 17" MBP 8,3, 2.5GHz Intel Quad Core i7, 500GB SSD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, Intel HD 3000 512MB GPU, AMD Raedon HD 6770M 1 GB GPU

1m 11 secs
PS CS5, 17" MBP 5,2, 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 500GB HD, 8GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM,
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB GPU, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512MB GPU
 
davidsolow said:
12.5 secs
PS CS6, 17" MBP 8,3, 2.5GHz Intel Quad Core i7, 500GB SSD, 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, Intel HD 3000 512MB GPU, AMD Raedon HD 6770M 1 GB GPU

1m 11 secs
PS CS5, 17" MBP 5,2, 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 500GB HD, 8GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM,
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB GPU, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512MB GPU
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I have the same notebook you do with the exception of mine has a Vertex + and it ran in the neighborhood of 40 sec with the DGPU
 
9.6 secs

CS6 on a Hackintosh with i7 2600k OCed to 4.5Ghz, 128GB SSD, 16GB 1600MHz CL9 RAM, nvidia GTX 660 2GB GPU

Geekbenches 16500
 
GermanyChris said:
I have the same notebook you do with the exception of mine has a Vertex + and it ran in the neighborhood of 40 sec with the DGPU
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I don't know to which MBP you are referring. If it's the MBP 8,3, are you are running 16GB of RAM? As far as SSDs are concerned. The one I have was the one that Apple supplied as part of the custom build. If it's the MBP 5,2, then perhaps the Vertex SSD vs the regular HD in my laptop is what accounts for the speed difference.
 
davidsolow said:
I don't know to which MBP you are referring. If it's the MBP 8,3, are you are running 16GB of RAM? As far as SSDs are concerned. The one I have was the one that Apple supplied as part of the custom build. If it's the MBP 5,2, then perhaps the Vertex SSD vs the regular HD in my laptop is what accounts for the speed difference.
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you right I put the SSD in the 5,2 not where it belongs. With this test the SSD does make all the difference.
 
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