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'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

Here's my scores. All of them are running Photoshop CS6.

Mac Pro 26.33
Mid 2006
2x2.66GHz Dual Xeons
6GB RAM 667MHz
nvidia geforce 7300 GT 256MB
Scratch: 64GB Kingston SSDNow
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 (MLPF)

MacBook Pro 1:11.34 and counting
Mid 2007
2.2GHz Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM 667MHz
nvidia geforce 8600M GT 128MB
Scratch: 250GB Seagate
OS X Mavericks 10.9 GM

MacBook Air 47.86
Mid 2012
1.8GHz Core i5
4GB RAM 1600MHz
Intel HD4000 1GB
Scratch: 128GB Apple SSD
OS X Mavericks 10.9 GM

iMac 15.21
Late 2012
2.7GHz Quad Core i5
8GB RAM 1600MHz
nvidia geforce GT 640M 512MB
Scratch: Internal 1TB HDD
OS X Mavericks 10.9 GM
 
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Been awhile since I took this test for a spin..

MacPro 5,1 6x3.33
48GB RAM
GTX680
840 Pro 512GB via Apricorn Velocity x2 card
OWC 120SSD scratch via SATA
Mavericks, CS6

9.5 seconds....noice!
 
Mac Pro 2,1
2 x 2.66 Quad core
28Gb RAM
Sandisk Extreme 128GB SSD scratch
HD5770 1GB
Photoshop CC
OSX 10.7
20.3 Secs

UPDATE 20-11-13
Just got a Mac Pro 4,1
2 x 2.66 Quad core
12Gb RAM
Sandisk Extreme 128GB SSD scratch
HD5770 1GB
Photoshop CC
OSX 10.9
18.8 Secs
 
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MacMini 3,1 Core2Duo 2.53GHz 4GB RAM
OS 10.68 GeForce 9400 with 256mB VRAM
Photoshop CS5.1

60.1 sec

Not real good....
 
Not bad for a 2006 Mac Pro!

22.45 seconds

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Processor): 8 MB
Memory: 12 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06
SMC Version (system): 1.15f3
 
14.56 seconds - not bad for an old bird. Had Firefox with about ten tabs open too.

Mac Pro 3,1 Octo 3.2
32Gb Ram
Windows 7 x64
Samsung SSD in sled SATA 2 - no scratch disk.
GTX680 2Gb
Photoshop CS6

Will post other scores on OSX and the other Macs/PC's in the house another time..
 
Mac Pro 3,1 2008
18Gb RAM
Scratch on Baracuda 2TB 1CH164
GPU 2 x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Photoshop CS6

14 seconds ..with no restart

Scratch set to the OCZ_Vertez Boot drive SSD 115gb
13 seconds

Been looking at upgrading Graphics cards, but is that the bottleneck? or should I look at :
more RAM or :
PCIe SSD as suggested on Apple forums? to improve performance

Where is the best place to start?
 
npaisnel said:
Been looking at upgrading Graphics cards, but is that the bottleneck? or should I look at :
more RAM or :
PCIe SSD as suggested on Apple forums? to improve performance

Where is the best place to start?
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Hi! I think a PCIe SSD card would help you most. This particular test, as stated way above, is most dependent on CPU and hard drive speeds. If you put that solid state drive in a 6 Gb/s card you'll be flying.
 
mtasquared said:
Hi! I think a PCIe SSD card would help you most. This particular test, as stated way above, is most dependent on CPU and hard drive speeds. If you put that solid state drive in a 6 Gb/s card you'll be flying.
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thanks

I just found a pair of free cards..but both PC cards...GT8800..heard problems with some of these..but it is wrong colour..blue ..so not compatible..and also a ATI Radeon HD 4870..seems that is compatible..from my reading so far..just googling how to flash it from PC now..rather flash from PC than mac.so save me doing damage to something in the mac..and then get hassle from the GF while I repair the damage

So any hints on PC flash of HD4870 to Mac appreciated
 
Yes thanks

I found very much the same.
There was also Zeus and Freya, whinh seemed never to get going.

Most of the threads on flashing on here seem to be all a few years old .

I did get Zeus to flash it, eventually finding a RoM image that worked.... Or so I thought. Fan never seems to come in. So more work involved to sort that.

The Zeus project died, and the download link info implies that Zeus is used to make the new ROM Firmware image from the old. But when you try it, Zeus complains about old firmware.

Will keep digging to see
Thanks
 
Mac Pro
2.66 Quad
6GB RAM
640GB HD
10.9.1
GT 120 512MB

24 seconds.

might try again after these upgrades.
 
lol, i mean when i am doing the test (the test is running) i need to click manualy by hand on all kind of buttons to proceed the test several times. Is was wondering if maybe, i have missed a setting somewhere that this can go automatically. If not, then there is a human factor creating delay (depends on how fast i can click on a window popping up somewhere on my 27" screen) :rolleyes:
 
:p

Umm ...I would have expected it to run in one hit...otherwise it is as much a test of your reactions to keep hitting the proceed button.

Maybe a search of the settings is required.I had quick look but cant see anything obvious.

maybe re-d/load the test and re install the action
 
spoke too soon.

looks like CC broke this.
 

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2013 MacPro Speed Test Results

MacPro 6,1 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel E-5, dual AMD FirePro D500 (Photoshop only uses one), 64GB DDR3 1866MHz ECC Ram, 256GB Apple PCI SSD.

Photoshop CC (version 14.1.2 x64) OSX 10.9.1 (Mavericks)

Time 1.8 seconds
 
8.87 Seconds - Sweet

8.87 seconds

Mac Pro 5,1
12 Core @ 3.33GHz
64GB RAM
Dual 500 GB SSD
Dual EVGA FTW+ GTX 680 4GB
7 TB 7200 HDs
Aux 450 watt PSU
27" Cinema Display
SpacePilot Pro
GeekBench 30,883

I ran this in CC without any issues at all.
 
I like the fact that everyone is saying how little the nMP does to photography etc., and how it is only a video editing powerhouse, and then I see the first score from an MP6,1... 1.8sec

That basically means it is by far the fastest m.....f..... I have seen! It is 10 times faster than my MP3,1/2.8Octo/16GB/Accelsior/GTX680:eek:
 
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