I put this in the Hardware forum even though I mentioned Photoshop, because it has more to do with hardware than Photoshop.

In Photoshop, make a new RGB white bg 8x10 300ppi document. Open Add Noise and set to Uniform, Monochromatic, 400% and click OK. Then open Radial Blur, set to Amount 100, Method Zoom, Quality Best but do not hit OK yet.

As you hit OK, start timing. Continue timing until the filter finishes, then stop.

Report the time back here along with your machine specs.

For example, I've a P4 1.4ghz and my time was 5:56

My machines specs

Dual Pentium 4 cpus running at 2.8, 1 gig of ram.

Windows xp pro

2 mins 15 secs.

- Noel

P4 2.0 ghz. 4:10

Wayne

Hi, Intel Celeron 1.3 G
RAM 256 M

Time 3' 35"

Any particular reason you want this.

P4 2.8Ghz 2Gb Ram

2 mins 34 secs

Christine

P4 3Ghz HT
1Gb DDR ram
Photoshop CS...Physical Memory Usage 90%
Window XP Home

2 mins

G3 imac, 600Mhz, (please don't laugh..), 756mb RAM, Photoshop CS, 7 minutes and 15 secs.... (I'm glad I don't do that one very often!!)

P4, 1.6 GHz, 512 DDR Ram --5 min. 23 sec.
Hmmmm, compare Gary's apecs and time to mine. :confused:

Ed

AMD Athlon XP, 1.29 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 4 mins 33 secs

I'm working on a project where I had to do this a minimum of 100 times in the past couple of weeks, so it got me wondering if its time for a new machine.

Gary and Leah got me thinking too.... :surprise:

AMD Athlon XP 1.68 MHz (2000+), 768 MB RAM - 5:13
for a 2400x3000 pixels document.... (8x10 at 300ppi).

Martin

I did vaguely think I had more than 1.29 GHz, but that's what the PC claims I have...

Switch off some of the many superfluous background tasks that run in XP and it will speed things up. It did for me. Try this site for info. www.fixyourwindows.com/optimizewindows.htm

Hi, after looking at some other peoples specs and times, I wondered if I'd done anything wrong, so I ran the test again and came out with exactly the same time 3' 35".

Thank you Gary for the link, I'll have a look at the steps later on. T'was a tad strange, since the other results seem to show a linear dependance between the MHz and the time (I've corrected the diagram above again).

Martin

I do have MemTurbo running, which does something clever with system resources (although precisely what it is goes over my head). That might be a factor.

P4 1.4 Ghz, IGB RAM, Windows 2000, Photoshop 7.01

Test 1 - PS memory allocation: 50% - 5 min 56 sec
Test 2 - PS memory allocation: 80% - 5 min 50 sec

Interesting to note that elapsed times in this highly compute bound task reflect the benefits of additional horsepower and perhaps slightly better resourse managing by XP.

Would the RAM type (DDR or not) have much impact?

Athlon 1800+ 512 MB memory,

3:40 min

:dizzy:

Are there any other Mac users reading this that might be willing to run the test?

Are there any other Mac users reading this that might be willing to run the test?

Yes, me.
The document is 2400 wide, 3000 tall
933MHz single G4, 768MB RAM MacOS X 10.2.8
4:32 with everything else running (quite a lot)
Quitting everything except Photoshop and this browser
4:45!
Perhaps Photoshop likes a little competition? :)
Is it time for me to upgrade to a dual 2.5GHz G5?

Why didn't you do it once and then copy? Because you didn't do exactly the same each time?

I changed stuff and re-did it a lot, plus I was running it 10x in a row (I finally made an action and went and watched TV while it was running).

Well, I ran through the Windows XP optimisation list, did all the relevant restarts, tried the task again and... still 4 minutes 33 seconds.

General pootling around the PC seems to work faster now, though, so the optimisation does seem to have achieved something.

win xp p4 2.8ghz 1 gb ram

PS 7.01 80% memory to ps - 2min 10sec
PS 7.01 100% memory to ps - 2min 12sec

PS CS 50% memory to PS - 2min 15sec
PS CS 40% memory to ps - 2min 10sec
PS CS 100% memory to ps - -2min 10sec

Hi all,

a little bit tweaking helps a bit but the biggest impact on the performance is due to the used hardware (of course). One of the many sites discussing these issues claims that for Photoshop the CPU internal cache (size of the L2) and the memory performance are quite important...

Here's the link (scroll down a bit):
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/amd-athlon64-3800plus/athlon64-3800plus-s939.html

Martin

1.25 GHz Power Mac G4

3:19
(near the end there, I was shouting: "Cmon Baby! Do it for daddy! Come in under 3 and I'll defrag your hard drive!)

4:49

P4
1.8 GHz
512 MB RAM

I could use more RAM but the money always goes to other, more pressing things.

The only time I find the waiting unacceptable is when we're doing big exhibit work with big ole honkin' 500MB files.

WinXP Pro
Photoshop CS
P4
3.40 GHz
1G Ram Memory - 1 minute 48 sec

2 minutes 31 seconds -- Intel P4, 2.6 Ghz, 504 MB RAM

Okay, new system. P4 3Ghz HT with 1MB L2 cache. 1GB of dual channel memory @400Mhz on an 800Mhz FSB. Photoshop 7 with scratch on its own HD, a WD 160GB 7200 with 8MB on board cache. Running XP.

Test result: 1 minute 49 seconds :)

Some very impressive results being posted, but where are the Dual-G5 users? I'd really like to see those scores.

p4 at 1.8ghz 256rdram ps. cs. time 4:30
went through and turned off all the none esential stuff and defraged, thinking i'm going to crack the 4 minuite mark. Second run 4:30 again

PM G4 1.25 1.0 GB ram internal 80Gb HD, a few other apps running in the background.

3:30 seconds.

I will run the test on my G5 (Dp 1.8 rev a) at work tomorrow.

P4, 2.8 ghz, 1g ram, 80g internal hd
first run..almost 7 minutes....7 very loooong minutes
second run, after disc clean up, defrag and getting rid of some adware, 3min 20 sec...whew!

Surprised myself here so did it 3 times....


2.8 P4
1gb Ram
2K

2.10

My PC nearly died a while ago and I'm down to 128Mb of RAM, so thought this speed comparison would be very interesting...

Intel Pentium 3 - 1Ghz
128Mb SDRAM (133Mhz)
Radeon 64Mb Graphics Card
Windows 98SE
Photoshop 7

5mins 2secs

Hi All!

my mac : 1.6GHz G5 2Gb Ram

time: 02:50:26

Saby

Exactly 3 minutes.

Pentium 4; 512 MB RAM

I'm suprised and so proud of my little machine: 1:55. Must note that I was printing an 11 x 14, 1440 dpi image at the time of the test and open in PhotoShop CS was a total of 14 images with a cumulative total of 1.96 gigs!

G5 Dual 1.8
2.5 gigs RAM

i'm quite happy with my Athlon XP 2000+ overclocked from 1667MHz to 2400MHz, 512MB

The time was:
2 minutes 10 seconds

Dual G5 Mac 1.8GHz, Photoshop CS, 1 gig ram
1min 15 secs

Stop using PCs people, please
XXX

G4 Single 1.25Ghz Mac, 768 Ram, Photoshop CS
3 minutes 15 seconds

G4 Single 1.25Ghz Mac, 768 Ram, Photoshop 7
3 minutes 20 seconds
(proof that PS-CS only feels crappy and slow compared to PS7)

G5 Dual 1.8Ghz Mac, 1 gig Ram, Photoshop CS
(just to check and show off)
1 minutes 17 seconds

I dont understand the fuss of defragmenting the hard drive for this task, as its CPU intensive...must be a PC thing :grin:

P4 3Ghz, 2 gig ram, downloading in the background.
PS CS 50% memory to PS - 2min 25sec

P4 2.66Ghz 1GB 2 minutes 52 seconds

PS CS

Processes: 47 running Commit Charge: 448/2976M (This shown in Task Manager, CTRL ALT DEL, shows on bottom line).

PS scratch disk D: w/20GB free

I'll try this on my Compaq Notebook today, see how slow it is :)

Ani's (wife) machine is just over a minute slower.

P4 2.4Ghz 1GB 4 minutes 9 seconds

PS 7.01 w/ACR

Processes: 43 running Commit Charge: 400/1313M (This shown in Task Manager, CTRL ALT DEL, shows on bottom line).

PS scratch disk D: w/20GB free

I was curious as to how my machine compares so I did the test. It took 1min 51 sec. Got P4 2.8 3G Ram (1.4G PShop, 700M Ramdisk for scratch). :bigthmb:

Hi,
Using a MAC:
DUAL 2 Ghz CPU
1.5 GB Ram
1:15

wow... those dual G5's are fast.

2:20 on an iMac 1.8Ghz G5 1gig RAM .. some of the PS filters are 64 bit enabled but Im not sure if Radial blur is one of them. Anyone using 64bit AMD processors?

I have an AMD Athlon XP 2.4ghz machine (single processor) with 768mb of ram. ran the test 3 times.

Ready for this?

DaDaDAAAAAA 41, 42, and 39 seconds!!!!!!!!!

Take that mac users! :tongue:

Just kidding...when I was building my system I optimized it for high drain applications. WHEN WILL THEY START REPORTING COMPUTER SPEED IN FLOPS????

Michael

For the record flops are floating-point operations per second and are the measurements computer designers and builders use when testing systems. Man I feel like a geek for knowing that...

I recently built my first white box (salty already).. I wanted a computer that I would be able to upgrade as my H/P offered no chance..

so as I read and gathered info there seemed to be several new items that I really wanted to include but my budget only allowed me to get my foot in the door.
But I have what I hope is a machine with a future...

my honest time was 1min 57sec. 2min .. 2nd time.. and I do have a stopwatch.

I have
Intel Pentium 4 520 2.8Ghz Processor

Intel D915PBLL Socket 775 ATX Motherboard ..
this was and still is one of the few MoBo's that allows the new Ram ..512mb of DDR2.. might be worth reading about for anyone interested http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/DDR_vs_DDR2/

this was one of the places my budget cut in... it's expensive RAM for now and while it would have worked better had I bought 2 x 256mb modules I opted for a single 512mb.. my hopes are to soon buy another.
this is also why I liked the results of this test.

other things that may have had a hand is that it's all Serial ATA (SATA) ... except for my old cd/cdrw.. for those who might not know it replaces the old ribbon cables with faster round ones.... very thin cables too which was a surprise.

I guess the hard drive didn't play into the results but that motherboard allows RAID configurations.. I bought a single (SATA) 80gig spinning at 7200rpm ...

again for anyone who is interested RAID is the only answer they have for speeding up writing and reading from hard drives... they couldn't make them faster so they developed a way to split the info between more than one hard drives....

that Socket775 motherboard effects the speed a lot I suspect.. the p4 is 800mhertz and I guess it just loves that socket. big Buss

I am going to post this then reboot and run that test again... i've got a few things running and it's been awhile since a reboot..

1:59 with the reboot.

I think the speed would improve a lot with another RAM module.. the board supports up to 4gb.

Sorry to bend everyone's ear... but a couple of years ago there was a contest here about how quickly photoshop re-opened and all the big white boxes kicked sand in my face... i feel somewhat redeemed for the moment.

oh and don't ask me about the fans (7) :)

RonDon

Hmmm... maybe I didn't do it right, but it only took four seconds for me.

AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB PC3200 RAM

edit: ahhhhh..... i see what I didn't do correctly. Let me try it again.

Ok, my official time is 1:47

AMD Athlon 3000
1.5gb RAM
Scratch on RAID 0 partition C (100gb free from 120gb), then hard drive E (80gb free from 160gb), then RAID 0 partition D (60gb free from 120gb), set at 50% and 80% returned the same results.

= 2 mins 50 secs

Centrino 1.4ghz Laptop
768mb RAM
Scratch on hard drive (only 4200rpm - 25gb free from 40gb), set at 50% and 80% returned the same results.

= 2 mins 45 secs

xp pro
1 g ram
3.2 ghz pentiun 4
I minuet 42 seconds

So having sat and studied the results (yes, I know that's sad), the dual G5's come out top, with the P4 HT processors closely following, all at just below the 2 minute mark. But I was reading that the new HT processors actually only really speed things up on certain PS filters, and don't (as yet) make a huge difference in most people's workflows. Any suggestions as to some kind of measurable real-world test?

I hate to say this, but if you want to really speed up your workflow with todays technology, you really need to overclock your machine. Motherboards are still the bottleneck on most systems, you can have a 8 GHz processor and ram that can flip a bit in .0001 nanoseconds (such equipment does not exist), and if you have an 800 MHz bus, your system will only work as well as an 800 MHz bus can get the information from one to the other.

So you take a 2.4 GHz processor with an 800 MHz bus and nice fast ram, say .01 nanoseconds. Then you overclock it to turn it into a 4.8 GHz processor with a bus of 1.6 GHz bus. Make sure you keep it cool (lots of heat sinks and fans won't work if you do something this drastic) like with a water cooling system or a freon system. (or if we really want to keep it cool spring for a liquid nitrogen system.)

*WARNING* this is an activity for hardware ubergeeks. I got a friend to help me set up mine in exchange for shooting his wedding. Don't do this yourself unless you really know what you are doing because you run the risk of destorying every piece of hardware in your system.

Michael

PS Don't trust my numbers, I know he doubled the flops, but I have no idea where everything is actually set.

Hmmm, seeing as the business owns my main graphics machines, I think there'd be some complaints if I fried it!!!! Maybe I'd better just find low tech ways of speeding it up for now!

I know how you feel, I have a machine at home I can do whatever I want to, but with my machine at work I get nasty emails if I change the desktop image. (slight overstatement, but I'm sure you know the feeling.)

Michael

I know how you feel, I have a machine at home I can do whatever I want to, but with my machine at work I get nasty emails if I change the desktop image. (slight overstatement, but I'm sure you know the feeling.)

Michael

LOL Yeah, I know what you mean. It's a family business, and I run the network of pc's (no one else knows how), so I can pretty much do what I like, and I'm always fiddling with them (I have a choice of 8 to mess up!), but it still wouldn't go down well if they had to buy a new pc because I'd killed it. On the other hand, if you've got any ideas that don't risk destruction, I'd love to hear them!

iMac G5 1.8ghz (my email computer)
1gb DDR ram (2x512mb)

2min 55 sec (pshop cs)

I will test it on my work machine later this morning (dual G5 2.5ghz 2gb mem) I'm currently using it to batch process raws.

I hope the Dual G5 blows away anyone else's results! (Especially you P4 dual PC users out there!!) It'll make me feel like it was worth the $$ anyway!

Later,
Greg :)

Power Mac G4 400mhz (with 1GHZ sonnet processor upgrade)
1.12 GB Ram

4min 7sec

Here's a list of all computers I tried:

8:30 MAC G4 500MHZ 1.12GB RAM
6:20 MAC POWERBOOK G4 667MHZ 512MB RAM
6:09 XEON 1.7GHZ 512MB RAM
4:07 G4 400MHZ (1GHZ sonnet processor upgrade installed) 1.12GB RAM
1:45 G5 DUAL 2.5GHZ 1GB RAM
1:44 IBM P4 3.2GHZ 1GB RAM
1:14 G5 DUAL 2GHZ 1GB RAM

I got a dell p4 540 3.2ghz with 512 ddr2 400mhz ram, maxtor 160gig HD 8mb cache. I finished in 2:04 with multiple programs running in the background. my mobo can handle 533mhz ram and I hope to upgrade to 1gig of it pretty soon. hopefully I can shave off a few seconds.

2 mins 33 secs:

Amd 2800+, a7n8x-x mobo running 1 gig of underclocked pc400 ram (at 333)

Mac G5 2.2 Dual Processor, 2 GHz 2.5mb RAM, 512 (per CPU) L2 Cache
PhotoShop CS

Time 1:27

PS7, P4 3GHz, 1GB DDR, Win2KPro - 2:35

on the background 2x IE, firefox, thunderbird, winamp, DAP, 2x Total Commander, Avast, ZoneAlarm, MS VC++ 6, ConText, and Painter... i guess i should sometimes close some programs :D i hope the whole pic at least fit to memory that was left :lol:

Pentium 4 2.66 1 gig ram

2min 50secs

HTH
John

G4 Emac 1.25 GHz w/ 512 MB RAM:

3:57 with multiple apps. running in background
3:43 with nothing running but Photoshop CS

T

P3 Celeron Tualatin 1.3Ghz
WinXP SP2
Photoshop CS
512 RAM

HDDs (RAID):
2 x HITACHI HDD 40 Gb (for scrach, without defrag)
2 x HITACHI HDD 120Gb (XP + Photoshop + antivir, and may other apps running)

Mainboard: Abit Str6 RAID (chipset Intel815)
Video: Ati RADEON 9550 (256Mb) AGP 8

RAM for Photoshop: 50%
____________________
results:

3.30 min.
3.15 min.
3.20 min.

Hi all :wavey: My first post.

2 minutes 58 seconds
1.33 MHz G4 Powerbook
2 GB Ram
PSCS with 75% allocated
Appl disk as primary scratch disk
top shows 52 processes running
cpu 49%
load averages 1.41, 0,80, 0.64

Just tried this on my new P4 3.8ghz machine, took 68 seconds.

1 min 59 secs

My specs.. custom built system:

Pentium 4 3.0Ghz
768MB PC2100
Main storage: 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor 36GB
Backup storage: 7200 RPM Western Digital 120GB
Video: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB

Hmmm. Well I'm rather surprised by my results. Under 5 minutes (slightly missed when it finished)

I've got a laptop running on Athlon XP-M 2000+ - I was expecting a much worse result! Damn this slightly negates my justificated for buying a desktop PC.... Then again 2 minutes would be nice too.

G5 DUAL 2,5 GIG with 2.5 gig ram MAC OS 10.3.9
PHOTOSHOP CS
51 sec :bow:

PS CS
P4 2.6
1 gb ram

tons of programs running
2:06

My PC nearly died a while ago and I'm down to 128Mb of RAM, so thought this speed comparison would be very interesting...

Intel Pentium 3 - 1Ghz
128Mb SDRAM (133Mhz)
Radeon 64Mb Graphics Card
Windows 98SE
Photoshop 7

5mins 2secs

Now running...

AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2Ghz)
1Gb DDRAM (PC3200 400Mhz)
Nvidia GeForce 6600GT
Windows XP Home
Photoshop CS

2mins 0secs

Hmmm. Well I'm rather surprised by my results. Under 5 minutes (slightly missed when it finished)

I've got a laptop running on Athlon XP-M 2000+ - I was expecting a much worse result! Damn this slightly negates my justificated for buying a desktop PC.... Then again 2 minutes would be nice too.Ah! That's more like it! :pleased: New PC - AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1gb memory - 2 hard drives (old one used as scratch disk) 1min 38sec!!

G5 dual 2GHz
2GbRAM

00:01:04:08

Dual Xeon "Nocona" 3Ghz
3GB memory
Photoshop CS2

0:00:44

AMD Athlon 1.13 768 Mb ram, PS 7.0.1 Win XP Pro Sp2 : 6min 39sec

By the way, why not use timing from the status bar?

PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz , 1.5Gb RAM.

Time: 2:29:09

:)

Time: 1 min and 22 seconds

Machine:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
1GB Ram

Software:
WinXP SP2
PS CS2

Have anyone tried running it in 64 bit windows on the new dual core AMD 64 ? They should supposedly kick so much ass.

Speed Test Results: 1.38

Dual AMD Athlon MP 2400+
1GB RAM
ASUS A7M266-D Motherboard
Windows XP

I'm a little surprised by this result, but not really as I did a similar test on a dual G4 and dual Athlon before building my dual Athlon.

Considering this pc is several years old now i'm very happy with the results and await a MacIntel with dual processor core (one day in the not too distant future :shocked: ).

that just took me 45 seconds on a stock 3200 venice with 2gb of corsair xmls underlcoked to 333

Photoshop CS
G4 dual 1 gigs..
ATI 128 card
2 min. 2 seconds

I ran it on a 2.40ghz Dell. with 512mb ram 03:49 total time.

why is everyones taking so long ? ive made sure ive done my test right and its still under 1 minute.

Whoo hoo I love my mac

PSCS

Power Mac G5 10.3.9
Dual 2 ghz
1.5 gigs of ram

1min 5 seconds (65seconds)
1min 4 seconds (64seconds)

and my third test I cleared & purged everything and got even faster...lol

1min 3 seconds. (63seconds)

WOW...what an improvement...

I'm going to try it on my old P3 Dell 600 mhz 768megs of ram later...

I'm sure we'll all be impressed with those numbers...

I've yupgraded from my old 768MB PC2100 to 1GIG PC3200.. I shaved 40 seconds off my time. My old time was 1 min 59 seconds. My new time is 1 min 20 seconds.

I posted this some time ago:

my honest time was 1min 57sec. 2min ..
Intel D915PBLL Socket 775 ATX Motherboard ..
Intel Pentium 4 520 2.8Ghz Processor
Ram ..512mb of DDR2..

I am going to post this then reboot and run that test again... i've got a few things running and it's been awhile since a reboot..
No faster
I think the speed would improve a lot with another RAM module.. the board supports up to 4gb.

I have double the ram now and I was surprised time almost the same 1:55 min..
anyone have any idea why the poor improvement on this test?

I was sure I was going to do much better because of a test I did before and after installing the new RAM.
I used a 508mb photo i just happened to have .. I opened the folder and right clicked the photo and then told it to open with PhotoShop.. so PS had to open also.

Ram time
512mb ................. 1min 33seconds
1024mb ..................... 37seconds

Dual 2.5Ghz G5
4.5GB ram
PS CS2
100% ram allocation
-------
48 Seconds

I've re ran the test 4 times with cache purged on the second test and 80% and 50% respectively on the third and fourth tests.

http://www.usnet1.net/PStest.jpg

Amd 64bit 3500 cpu with 2 gig of ram


i got 1min 19secs

Bit late to this but...2 tries with a lot of other apps running 1:10, & 1:08.

My new homebuilt PC, built for speed & silence.

P4 Dual 3.0G, 2GB 800Mhz DDR2 Dual Channel Ram, XP Pro

for any one that needs another reason to up grade to cs2, 3min 45sec with cs2 as compared to 4:30 with cs. there were no other changes to my system

I have a Mac G4 digital audio (4+yrs Old) with a 1.47 G4 processor upgrade. 1.5 gigs of ram. Time+3min and 41 seconds.

Just got my Mac Quad G5 2.5Ghz, 4.5Gigs Ram.

Ran the test in 22 seconds.

Mac G5 Dual 2.0ghz/2.5gb ram/radeon9600pro


57.06 seconds ! :grin:

Homemade Athlon 64 3500, Shuttle XPC, I think San Diego core, Nforce4 chipset, 1G dual channel DDR PC3200, PCI express 16x Nvidia geforce 6200 w/256M DDR (I doubt that part matters), SATA 250G HD, windows XP PRO. Ran the same speed over four tests--

1:16

(I wonder how much benefit I'd get from a 64bit OS?)

Bart

P4 2.35 GHz 1GB RAM

2 minutes 45 seconds

Bernie

cuz my system is so new, i feel a little unfair doing this test. but here goes

A pair of Opteron 254, 2.8Ghz each.
8x1Gb ECC = 8Gb ram

a couple of SCSI drives.

test 1: 25 secs
test 2: 23 secs
test 3 : 22 secs

the first time i saw my photoshop having to wait for more than 3 secs to get anything done.

PSCS2 can use the whole 3.5Gb of ram. my scratch disk is a 15k 73Gb raid0 drive. which holds my XP's swap file also.

P4, 3.2Mhz, 2Gb. Ram: 1minute 39 seconds

Athlon 3000+ (2.0Ghz) 1Gb Ram
1m 29s

Didnt bother shutting any background stuff down... infact - carried on web browsing. Might have another go tomorrow.

1m 30s

ATI 9700 pro
AMD 3200+64 2g
1 gig of ram

Homemade Athlon 64 3500, Shuttle XPC, I think San Diego core, Nforce4 chipset, 1G dual channel DDR PC3200, PCI express 16x Nvidia geforce 6200 w/256M DDR (I doubt that part matters), SATA 250G HD, windows XP PRO. Ran the same speed over four tests--

1:16

(I wonder how much benefit I'd get from a 64bit OS?)

Bart

A lot, same for me.

All these times seem legit to me. I posted about a year ago on my Dell 8400 P4 3.2gHz 1mb L2 Cache "Prescott". That computer with 768 mb's of ram did the test in 1:54. Not too bad.

Since summer I've been on a Dell 9100 Pentium D 840 Dual Core "Smithfield". I can't believe the difference!!! The Dell 9100 Does the test in 54 Seconds consistently, (IRREGUARDLESS, of how many programs i have running at the same time). This computer has a 74gb raptor HD (a huge benefit for video editing, rendering, looking at tons of thumbnails in bridge) 1.5 GB's of 533mhz pc4200 Ram, 2 dell Widescreen 20" LCD Displays. I don't miss my macs at all really, Photoshop and other Adobe Apps are 150 Times more stable on my Intel WinXP box. NO unexpectedly quits. I have used OS Ten, I'm not just comparing it to os8 and os9 days. when the 'Ish was Really unstable...
What I think is the amazing part about this is that dell sells a slightly newer model than mine, the 9150, fully decked out with a 20" UltraSharp LCD display(2005fpw),160gb hd,1.0GB or ram, win xp, home etc.... for $1399 and you get free shipping. Compare to the $3300 the quad 2.5 costs. And 'The Quad' comes pretty stripped down for $3300. You really need to spend 4200 for a well equipped system.

Just wait till Apple releases its "High End Multi Core" x86 Intel based machine. If my 840 can do the test in 54. 2 840 dual core chips should be able to beat 4 2.5 G5's. By the time apple is ready for these chips im am sure that they will be 3.8ghz or 3.6 and cache sizes keep increasing.




DON'T get me wrong, the quad is the fastest computer I have ever used.

I've ran this test in the Apple Store in CS2 and It always finishes in 23 seconds, no more, no less ever. Thats unreal. You can run the test on a new 2.1ghz Imac and it takes more than 3 minutes. I would love to try rendering some video in after effects on that thing.

ONE very important thing to remember is that the performance increase Dual Core users are seeing is most noticable in photoshop filters. For atleast the past 8 years Photoshop has been multiprocessor aware. The filters take the most advantage of this. Once our OS and Programs are all multi-threaded our multi-core machines will be working even better.



I got my own apple when I was 5 years old, a IIgs special woz edition. So i've seen them all, Even those "Mac Clone" days of power computing,umax,daystar,motorola Circa 1997. I remember in 1997 the Power Computer Power Tower Pro 225mhz 604e was BY FAR the fastest photoshop machine available. It could even take 1 gig of ram back then, now we have an effective 10 ghz (10,000 ghz on our desk, while back in 1997 the bleeding edge of technology,just like the quad, was only 225mhz) Thats 44.44 TIMES more clock cycle power. And those 10,000 clock cycles are better clock cycles than the old ones.

i wonder if the quad macs or quad opterons are faster. if the quad macs are 23 secs. then my opterons are on par.
considering quad are 4x 2.5Ghz. and mine is 2x2.8Ghz.

i wonder if the quad macs or quad opterons are faster. if the quad macs are 23 secs. then my opterons are on par.
considering quad are 4x 2.5Ghz. and mine is 2x2.8Ghz.

How many seconds does your system take? The 2.8 in the AMD's is a really quality 2.8. I'm waiting for all the 'dothan' based Pentium M chips to make it to the desktop. They are a really nice processor. My laptop has about the slowest pentium M you can get right now at 1.6ghz and Its equal to about a 2.6 or 2.8 p4 desktop. Its a great chip considering how watered down laptop hardware is compared to what I run in my desktop. The chip only has a 11 or 13 stage pipeline where as the p4 desktop has over 30 stages. When one quation has a error many others get fouled up when you have that many stages.

let your nerdy flurry,
kyle

How many seconds does your system take? The 2.8 in the AMD's is a really quality 2.8. I'm waiting for all the 'dothan' based Pentium M chips to make it to the desktop. They are a really nice processor. My laptop has about the slowest pentium M you can get right now at 1.6ghz and Its equal to about a 2.6 or 2.8 p4 desktop. Its a great chip considering how watered down laptop hardware is compared to what I run in my desktop. The chip only has a 11 or 13 stage pipeline where as the p4 desktop has over 30 stages. When one quation has a error many others get fouled up when you have that many stages.

let your nerdy flurry,
kyle

nay, my 1.73 centrino is slower than P2.6 that i have compared againsted with. dothans is about x1.3-1.4 of the desktop equilvalent.

my best was 22 secs. 2x single opteron cores. i havent got the cash to get 2x dual opteron cores yet.

Well my first post here and I thought I'd compare my time as I had PS CS2 open when I read this.

AMD64 3200+, 1Gb RAM - 1:14secs

I thought this seemed reasonable for the spec.

2.8Ghz, 2GB Ram, XP Pro, 10,000rpm SATA main HD (one of six HD's)
1st 1:32 2nd 1:28

But that was while playing a audio cd and this window open, without a fresh restart.

Just curious about how well a $1200 consumer machine fares, I ran the test on my imac G5 2.0ghz 17" with 2gb RAM:

1st 2:08 (processor performance at automatic)
2nd 1:57 (processor performance at highest)

So a $3K, quad 2.5 G5 desktop performs about 6X faster.

AMD 64 3000+ 1 Gig mem
Win XP
Photoshop CS2

1:19

Looks like AMD chips are cheaper and faster for the buck :tongue:

Dual Xeon 2.8, 2GB RAM (for Photoshop 50%), CS2. Time 1 min 07s

Same test HW as before (Dual Xeon 2.8, 2GB RAM (for Photoshop 50%), CS2) but with hyperthreading support turned on is time 54s. Interesting improvement...

P4 2.8 Ghz single processor Win XP Pro 1GB Ram SATA7200 Drive, physically separate and not containing the OS:

PSCS2 time = 1 min 40 sec
PS7 time = 2 min 15 sec
Rgds, MM

P4 3ghz HT, 2GB RAM & 7200rpm HD (EIDE) on XP:

1' 24"

I'm adding a secondary HD soon for sole use as the scratch disk so it will be interesting to see the difference it makes.

Apple G5 Dual 2.7ghz
2.5 Gb ram
OS 10.4.4
Photoshop CS2

Processor performance set Automatic
Time : 56.9 seconds
Processor performance set Highest
Time: 44.8 seconds :shocked:

Macintosh OS 10.4.4 - Dual 2 GHz - 2 GB RAM
Photoshop CS2

58 Seconds.

Machine running for days and has gone through the usual intense paces in the interim.

running under Rosetta
1gb RAM 1.22
2gb RAM 1.19

I ran this test on a bottom of the line Mac Mini at home over the weekend. Stock 512 MB memory, 1.25GHz processor and OS 10.4.2 - Photoshop CS, and 17 GB of free disk space:

3 minutes, 03 seconds. Better than I'd anticipated.

Not bad for $499.99

Old school G5 tower is doing it in 58 seconds, as I posted earlier with spec's.

We'll have to wait and see how this test does on MacTel after Adobe writes the Universal version of Photoshop.

I thought i needed a new system...maybe not so quick

ran it twice 65 and 67 seconds

p4 (single) 3.6 Gigahertz
2 Gig of 533 DDR
ati radeon x800

And a 2 GHz Mac with the same RAM does it in 58 seconds. Go figure...

Home built
Asus A8N-SLI Premium
BFG 7800 GT OC 256 Meg Video
4 gigs Corsair 3500LL Pro memory
AMD 420 X2 Manchester Processor
74 Gig Raptor Main drive
74 Gig Raptor Scratch
400 Gig Seagate

There should be some interesting data to chart here if anyone is statistically inclined.

3:30 on an AMD 1.8GHz, 1G RAM. I wonder how it is about memory intensive filters?

Pshop speed test 40 sec! :pleased:

Win XP Pro sp2, AMD x2 4400, 4G Ram.

:nod: :nod: Yeah! :nod: :nod:
--Peter A
Do Something Useful

AMD Athlon 2200+ (1.79 GHz)
ECS K7S5A Pro Mainboard
512MB SDRAM - 55% Photoshop

3:38 min.

HP Compaq nx9500 Laptop

3.2Ghz with 1Gb of Ram = 1Minute 42 seconds

This is the best laptop Apple now sells: 2.16 ghz core duo with 100gb 7200 HD and 2gb ram, CS2 in rosetta:

1min 15 secs with battery power and normal performance setting

Celeron D 1.2 Ghz processor with a gig of RAM
2 and a half minutes

AMD 3800x2, 2GB Mushkin memory, 2x250GB WD, separate 2x40GB WD for raid-0 scratch file.

result 43 secs.

Running a P4 @ 3 GHz with 1 gig ram..... 1' 48"
Rick

1:25 for a P4 630 with HT, 3 GB ram, using XP Media edition, and a seperate internal hard drive as scratch disk.

3.2 Ghz P4 w/ 1.5G Ram, Separate Winchester Raptor for PS scratch and separate drive for Windows Paging.

1 minute 27 seconds

Did everyone run in 16 bit RGB??

2:07

new macbook...core duo 1.83 processor, 1gig ram, running cs1 through rosetta

not too shabby

WOW,

Curiosity got the better of me, so decided to install winxp on my macbook via bootcamp.

Ran this text 2x............1min 10 secs

machine is 1.8ghz duocore
1gig of ram
60gig 5400rpm drive

75% memory allocated to ps

PRetty damn impressive that it is keeping up with a 3.2gig pc with seperate hard drive for scratch.

whoohooo apple

2 month old Advent 7102 laptop....mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ 1024 MB DDR-Ram ATI Radion Xpress 200M with PCI Express Graphics 128 MB shared memory..........2 mins 14 secs Not too bad for a £500 laptop I suppose......John

1 minute 12 seconds

Photoshop CS2 on a Lenovo (IBM) T-60 Laptop
Centrino Duo processor @ 1.83 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, 128 MB ATI Radeon Video Card. Nothing special about this computer...it's straight out of the box!

Clarification:
Ooops...when wrote "nothing special", I meant I did not do any sort of fine tuning to it... :grin:

£1700 worth of "nothing special"....lol
John

Some very impressive results being posted, but where are the Dual-G5 users? I'd really like to see those scores.

Powermac G5 Dual-core Quad 2.5Ghz - 4 gig RAM
Photoshop CS 2

Time: 38 seconds..!

Just kidding...when I was building my system I optimized it for high drain applications. WHEN WILL THEY START REPORTING COMPUTER SPEED IN FLOPS????

Michael

For the record flops are floating-point operations per second and are the measurements computer designers and builders use when testing systems. Man I feel like a geek for knowing that...

see here:

at apple website (http://www.apple.com/powermac/dualcore.html)

Ian

37 secs with an 8bit RGB file

44 secs with a 16bit RGB file

AMD Athlon 64 Dual X2 4200
4Gigs RAM (PS only sees 2)
PS mem use set to 100%
PS on 74gig Raptor
Scratch on 36 Gig Raptor (dedicated)
XP SP2
PSCS2 9.0.1

1 min 07 secs.

CPU D930 3GHZ
RAM DDR2 2X1GIG
VGA ATI X700 PRO 256MB

PowerMac G5, Quad Core 2.5ghz, 4 gigs of ram, OS X 10.4

23 seconds

Dell XPS 400 (dual core Pentium D), 2 GB DDR2 dual channel memory. Task Manager showed both cores running at 100% utilization. Time = 1 min, 17 sec

Hi,

3mins,40secs

Dell Inspirion 6000
1.6Ghz
512MB RAM

About what I'd expected.

Cheers,

Paul :nod:

Hi,

Mac Mini (non-Intel)
1.25GHz
512MB RAM

3 minutes, 03 seconds.

Better than I'd anticipated.

Not bad for $499.99 + tax.

HI, as any one try out on a dual core P4 ???

Here is my result:
my machine :
P4 Intel 3.0 2mb cache, 160 GB SATA 2 16 mb cache, Intel 945 1066 Mhz,
2GB DDR 2 667 Mhz Dual chaneled

1:46


I've notice that quantity of RAM does imporve the performance on this task, but the speed of the proccesor, or maybe dual proccesor machine will perform more faster

Thanks

Paul Thurston's 1.6 GHz machine did in 3:40 what my 1.25 GHz machine did in 3:03. Same amount of RAM.

He's on a PC - I'm on a Mac Mini (home computer) so maybe it's a Mac Thing...

After seeing how slow my Athlon 3000 desktop PC was compared to my 2.2GHz Pentium M Dell laptop PC, I decided it was time for an upgrade. So, I built a new PC:

Intel Core 2 Extreme 2.93GHz CPU
Asus P5W DH Deluxe Motherboard
4GB (4x1GB) Corsair DDR2-1066/PC2-8500 memory
2 x 150GB 10,000RPM Western Digital Raptor hard drives (no RAID)
750GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM hard drive
XFX GeForce 7600GT 256MD DDR3 video card

For an 8-bit file, the Radial Blur "benchmark" yielded the following:

Normal Clock @ 2.93GHz: 48 seconds
"Gentle" Overclock @ 3.3GHz: 42 seconds

Subsequently increasing the CPU multiplier a bit more for a 3.46GHz overclock, and also testing on a 16-bit file, these new numbers were observed:

8-bit: 41 seconds
16-bit: 46 seconds

(8/29/06)

Further tweaked system for 3.65GHz operation on FSB365 with DDR2-730 memory rate for 1:1 FSB:DRAM ratio, and memory timing of 3-3-3-8-4.

8-bit: 39 secs
16-bit: 42 secs

Regards,

Daryl

Dual-core P4, 3.2GHz, 2MbRam, Western Digital Raptor Hrddrives (10,000 RPM SATA)

1:40

P4 3.0 ghz HT
1.5 gb ram
primary ps scratch disc on a 2x200gb sata raid 0

in background: outlook, word, 2 ie windows, directory opus

1 min 42 secs

I was pleasently surprised. I've been cursing this machine lately. Maybe all I need is more ram.

Time: 17:55
Cpu: Athlon 1.4 Thunderbird
Mainboard: K7ama
Ram: 785 Pc133 SDRAM
Video: AGP GForce 3 Ti 200 64MB Ram
Windows 2000 SP4

photoshop 6.0

What gives?

:43 seconds

G5 Dual 2.7 GHz processor
2.5 gb ram
cs2

AMD athlon XP 2000+
1.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM
Windows XP Pro
Time:5:35

That's a long render time for any project! Time for more speedie computer me thinks. :wavey:

I couldnt believe some of the times on here until I realized the test is not the same one I see floating on the internet that is alot more demanding on your system. That test can be downloaded at

http://www.retouchartists.com/pages/speedtest.html

The following results are for the test above. When I get back home I will post the results of the test that is the topic of this thread.


Specs: Homebuilt
Supermicro H8DC8 Motherboard
2 -285 Opteron processors (dual core for a total of 4 cores)
8 gigs ram.
1 Maxtor SCSI U320 150 gig drive (O/S and applications)
1 Raid 0 array with 2 WD Raptor 1500's. (300 gig partition) used for scratch disk
Windows XP X64 bit edition, with Photoshop CS2 version 9.0.1

:34 seconds.

But the test runs the same at 4 gigs ram as 8 and the max mem in photoshop is still limited to 2786. I thought photoshop CS2 could use 4 gigs ram? I think if I tweaked the photoshop settings some more I could gain even more time. This was set at my raid 0 as scratch 1, my os drive as scratch 2, and history states set to 0.

I know nothing about photoshop so Im sure someone familiar with it would be able to optimize it further.

Geoff

AMD turion64 2.3 GHz
1 Gb ram
compaq presario laptop
very clean windows XP (much stuff turned off)
cs2
1:30

Ok, to add to my update previously, my time on this test is

:18 seconds 8 bit.
:21 seconds 16 bit


And to answer my own questions about the ram, adobe has some great info on thier web regarding xp 64, more than 4 gigs ram, etc. Very interesting reading. Also some speed tips if you have 2 plus gigs.

37 seconds

dual intel xeon 3.2G CPU
4GB memory with 3G switch
photoshop 9.02
windows xp pro with SP2
supermicro motherboard
scsi harddisk

Hi guys and ladies,

does anyone have a graph or this setup in a grid from worst to best

also when doing this timing, how do you measure the time? ?using PS's own timing or with a stopwatch???

thanks

Henrik

G5 Imac intel 2ghz duo
1gb ram
cs1 set to 50%

and considering it has to run rosetta too.......

1:20 (which i thought ain't to bad)

:D

I'm running a G5 dual 2 ghz with 5.5 gigs of ram and 2 terabytes of scratch.

Took 69.1 seconds with Bryce rendering in the background,

Chris

Dual Dual 3.2 GHz (yes, that's dual dual cores :) )
4G RAM, 3G switch
XP Pro SP2
Photoshop CS2
Illustrator, Firefox & Outlook running in background, but not actively processing


18.5 secs. [edit: 8-bit file] I wish this was the home machine, but it's the work machine :(

Maybe I'll take it home anyway... muahaha

Dual G5 2.0Ghz w/ 4.5GB ram, Running CS2:

16 Bit file - 1 minute, 6 seconds
8Bit File- 54 seconds
There were no programs running in the background.

My studio will shortly be receiving a Mac Pro Quad Xeon Core 3.0Ghz W/ 8GB ram, ATI X1900 Card, 1 Terabyte storage. I will run the test again once we get it.

OK, Mac Pro Quad Xeon 3.0Ghz-8GB ram-2x500GB Drives. Photoshop running 3GB ram and 500GB scratch.

16bit file: 32 Seconds
8Bit file: 20 Seconds

8bit - 23 seconds

AMD X2 4600+ Dual CPU w 2 GB PC3200 (Nforce4 SLI Chipset).
I also had TMPGENC encoding a video in the background, but it was set to low priority, so it should only have affected the outcome by a few seconds at most.

iMac Core 2 duo
1 gig ram
2 ghz core 2 duo
OS X 10.4.8
(running photoshop CS2 under roseta emulation)
58 seconds

iBook G4
768mb ram
1.2ghz G4
OS X 10.4.8
3:02

The iMac running CS2 under roseta was 3x faster than the iBook. I can't wait for a universal binary version of Photoshop.

Dell Latitutde D620 Laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz Processor, and a 7200 RPM hard drive, 2 GB of RAM. One physical drive with two partitions (scratch disk on extended partition).

8 Bit File 51 secs
16 Bit File 53 secs

Regards, Murray

dual 2.7 G5 1.5Gb RAM

43 seconds

(with a few minor apps running in the background)

MacbookPro 2.16ghz, 7200rpm hd, 2gb RAM, ext sata scratch, PSRAM=80%, History=1, Cache=6

CS2
8bit: 1:10
16bit: 1:51
Retouch Artists: 4:17
Retouch Artists: 4:10 (after restart)

CS3
8bit: 0:47
16bit: 1:02
Retouch Artists: 1:17
Retouch Artists: 1:16 (after restart)

P4 1.8 GHz, 384 DDR 5:08

Hi

Mac G5 Dual 2GHZ power PC 5 Gig Ram

1 minute 5 seconds

Bill

Mac Pro 2.66 with Photoshop CS2 20 Seconds. With CS3 Beta 15 seconds

Repeated the same test on the same hardware below but with CS3 instead of CS2. Results were
8 Bit File 28 secs
16 Bit File 34 secs
I.O.W., CS3 on a dual core processor is almost twice the speed as CS2 on a dual core. That really rocks!!!

"CS2 on Dell Latitutde D620 Laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz Processor, and a 7200 RPM hard drive, 2 GB of RAM. One physical drive with two partitions (scratch disk on extended partition).

8 Bit File 51 secs
16 Bit File 53 secs"

hi , i have a P4 2.8GHZ 1 GB RAM my time is 2:00 min.

Dual Opteron 285
8 Gb of ram DDR400 only
All SCSI harddrive subsystem
Nvidia Quadro FX-3400 (x2 not SLI)
53 processes running incl Adobe Bride and iTunes

RetouchPro
16bit 14.9sec
8bit 11.8 sec which I think could be better but hey we can't all have superfast MacPro 3Ghz :-)

FredMirenda test
16bit 6.9sec
8bit 5.6sec
my previous set dual Opteron 250 did I think from memory 22-23sec 8bit so that is a huge improvement (just don;t mention the $$$)


my new toy - well it is my partners new PS box
Intel QX6700 QuadCore
4GB DDRII
Nvidia 7600GT
Raptor 150
RAID 1 with two 320GB Seagate 7.10

FredMirenda
8bit 7.4sec
16bit 8.2

RetouchPro
8 bit 23.3sec
16bit 25.4
this one here surprised me, as being rather high

RetouchArtists
I had a look at their website and something isn't right
QX6700
Opty

16 seconds @ 8bit
22 seconds @ 16 bit

Mac Pro 2.66
3 gig ram
4x250 RAID0 Scratch
cs3

Alan

New Computer, hardly bleeding edge though.
Pentium D 805 - Dual Core, 64 bit, 2.66 GHz
Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard
2GB Corsair DDR2 6400 C4
Windows XP64 bit
OS installed on an 80GB IDE HDD, Photoshop on a 500GB SATA drive, PsCS3 beta - all settings/options default.
Noise->Radial Blur test:
1:08 - 8 bit
1:22 - 16 bit
1:26 - 32 bit
CS2, all settings default, everything else the same:
1:08 - 8 bit
1:15 - 16 bit
7, defaults, everything else the same:
1:26 - 8 bit


does anyone have a graph or this setup in a grid from worst to best

also when doing this timing, how do you measure the time? ?using PS's own timing or with a stopwatch???
There are too many variables IMO to do a proper, honest grid. If everyone would do the test with Photoshop using all default settings that would be a start at being a more fair/accurate comparison chart. I went through and wrote down alot of the results from this thread a few weeks ago and once I was done immediately something jumped out at me: A Pentium 4 @ 2.66 GHz will do the test in either 2:50 or 2:06 depending on the other variables... I'd love to make a grid but it's a bit of a daunting task to keep all the variables in line.

I used a digital clock to time mine - clicked 'ok' when the seconds reached 00 to make things easier ;)

1. using theeeeese directions:

In Photoshop, make a new RGB white bg 8x10 300ppi document. Open Add Noise and set to Uniform, Monochromatic, 400% and click OK. Then open Radial Blur, set to Amount 100, Method Zoom, Quality Best.

Core 2 Duo 6300 1.86Ghz@3.29Ghz (OC) 2GB RAM, Windows XP Pro SP2 on a custom PC with high quality components (800$ US total only)
(overclock is totally stable and gives low temp with silent air cooling)
Used a 15GB partition on a 500GB Seagate 16MB Barracuda NS for scratch.
with no scratch same results (test uses not much of memory)

Photoshop CS3 beta: 21sec
Photoshop CS2: 37sec
Photoshop CS: 30sec


2. Using the "Retoutch Artists Speed test" action:

(In all photoshop versions Gaussian Blur starts at around 25secs and delivers lags in the beginning and midtime of the filter)

Photoshop CS3 beta: 52sec with one LAG (of 14sec in the start of g.blur)
38sec without the g.blur LAG

Photoshop CS2: 56sec with one LAG (of 15sec in the start of g.blur)
42sec without the g.blur LAG

Photoshop CS: 1min 27sec with two LAGS (19sec+30sec g.blur start+middle)
0min 37 sec without the LAGS decscribed below


The Gaussian Blur STALLS for 14-50 secs on our configuration, probably Core 2 Duo is not well supported on Windows Xp platform. As in the past, ADOBE photoshop LAGS ARE PROBABLY DUE TO BAD windows XP COMPILING, because in any other aspect the machine is super fast (including renders, encodings etc in other programmes)

keeping on working and testing, our greetings to all the digital community

Here is my result
core 2 duo 2.66 ghz
4 gig of RAM - all though comp only show 3 gig
200 gig hard drive

ran 3 tests all came out to be 46 sec

i have an intel macbook
2GHz, 1gb RAM

i managed 1minute, 8 seconds with a trial of CS3 :D

Windows XP Pro
Centrino Pentium
1.73 GHz
Photoshop CS2

8 bit = 3:25
16 bit = 4:22

Nice FX!

QE6600 quad. OC to 4.5Ghz vistax64 OS
20s on CS2 8bit.

Interesting test

17" Macbook Pro - Dualcore 2.16ghz processor, 2gb ram

Done in CS3 - 0:45

I imagine it'll get a bit faster once my new external drive arrives and I have more than 400mb free on the drive.. photoshop is not happy with me right now.

Kyle

1:45
Athlon 64- 2.4ghz, 4GB RAM, PS7 and XP Pro

50seconds
Core 2 Duo 2.66gHz (not clocked!)
2gb DDR800
320gb HDD
Photoshop CS2

New for me
3.2 Ghz Intel Pentium Socket 478
2gb ram
1min 15 secs

Hi There
I have Imac 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo with 2 GB memory Photoshop CS3

Test results: 52 seconds

MacBook 2.0 GHz, Intel Core Duo with 2BG RAM, PS CS2: 1 minute 14 seconds

dual core 2 gig ram----------------7 sec

sorry 35 sec

win2K sp4(!), core 2 duo, 2 Gig, CS with separate 30g partition as scratch: 35s

2 x 3 dual core intel xenon
8 GB 667 MHz DDR2 fullbuffered dimm

osX 10.4.7
CS2

18 sec

saby

7.749 seconds :)

osx mac pro 8X core 3ghz 8 gb ram.

Going to try get the scratch disk on ramdisk and see what happens.

Well that helped. 6.438 seconds.

Flying........

Mac Pro Quad Core 2.66gHz, 4 GB RAM...16 seconds (PS CS3 Extended)

25 seconds

Intel 6700 core 2 duo
4 gigs DDR2
CS3

13.9s

Intel q6000 quad-core (not yet overclocked)
4GB DD2
150Gb Raptor System Disk and Separate 150Gb Raptor Scratch Disk

2 minutes, 4 seconds - added ram to my old HP yesterday to make it 1G and wanted to see how it would do (but I never recorded what it would do BEFORE the addition of the extra 512 megs of ram :( )
2.60 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4, 1016 Megabytes Installed Memory, Windows XP (Home), Adobe CS3

Compared to djcheetah's 13.9 sec.... :blush:

Well, Doug, I hope you've upgraded your system by now... ;)

91 seconds.
Dual 2.5 with 4.5gig RAM and 10K Raptor scratch disk.

Well, Doug, I hope you've upgraded your system by now... ;)

I upgraded it about page 4 or so :)

20.4 seconds.

AMD Athlon dual core X2 4400+
2 GB ram

after many months of fine tuning an OCed system
Q6600 G0 stepping vistax64 8Gb ram running at 1:1 400FSB.
CS3
3.6ghz
8bit 10s
16bit 15s

further tweaks.

Q6600@4Ghz (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v126/leonmah/PC/Q66004000Ghz3dmark06cpu.jpg)

will update on results.

No more notices RE: speed. I no longer have a camera worth noting:(

MacPro 2.66ghz quad, 9gb RAM, 138gb raptor Raid 0 boot, 69gb PS raptor Raid 0 scratch disk, Leopard 10.5

Retouch Artists CS3: 47.6 seconds (History 20, cache 7)
Retouch Artists CS3: 32.9 seconds (History 1, cache 4)
Retouch Artists CS3: 38.4 seconds (History 1, cache 4, 10.4.10)
Retouch Pro 8bit CS3: 16.1 sec
Retouch Pro 16bit CS3: 22.2 sec

No speed up for Retouch Pro test with Leopard over 10.4.10 unfortunately. But the Retouch Artists test was nearly 17% faster on Leopard!

34 sec.

Intel MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core Duo, 17inch, Mac OS 10.4.11

Memory 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Photoshop CS3

34 sec. 8 bit
46 sec. 16 bit
58 sec. 32 bit

Intel MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core Duo, 17inch, Mac OS 10.4.11

Memory 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

Photoshop CS3

Mac-Pro 2.66ghz Quad core, 5GB ram, 500gb seagate 7200.11 scratch
OS-X 10.5.1, Photoshop CS3

First try 22sec, if I ctrl+Z and redo the blur I get 16.7 sec.

HP Pavilion a450N, XP Home, P4, Hyperthreading, @3.0 ghz, 1 gig ram.
1min 20 sec.

8 bit - 5.9 seconds
16 bit - 7.7 seconds


Dell 690 with dual 2.66 quads, 8 gb ram, xp 64

On my iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 duo w/ 4 Gb of ram
took me 38 seconds.

Don't hate me!

Dual Pentium D 3.40 GHz Processors, 2 Gig RAM running Vista (32-Bit.)

59 seconds

I don't hate you, that's over 4 times slower than my machine. keep trying.:)



On my iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 duo w/ 4 Gb of ram
took me 38 seconds.

Don't hate me!

Custom PC. Intel Quad 6600 2.4 Ghz on Asus P5K Premium MoBo, 3GB RAM (only 1.2 available to PS) 2 x 500GB Seagate 7200 RPM drive with scratch disk on 2nd physical drive. Time = 14 secs.

ok here is my test result at work.

2 mins 50 sec

Apple Mac Power Mac G5
twin 2.3GHz cpu
2GB DDR Ram
Bus speed 1.15 GHz

Hi everyone!

39 secs.

White iMac 24" Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 with 3GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB, 50GB scratch disk FW800.

I have seem some good results from Quad Cores, I want one 8 core soon!!!

ijoselito

to be or not to be...interaction designer.

Imac 2.4 Core 2 Duo Extreme, 4gb ram. I done this based on 8 inches by 10 inches because no actual measurements were given and the result was 4.00 minutes.

Just run it again at 8-cm by 10-cm and it was rapid 19 seconds.

I just did the test again but with 8cm X 10cm. In my previous tests I always used inches (funny I am Spanish, we use cm). Anyway these are the results:

hardware:

macbook pro core 2 duo 2.2Ghz. 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600GT 128MB.

software:

apple os x 10.5.1
photoshop cs3 10.0

test 8 cm X 10 cm -

8 bit: 5.1 secs.
16 bit: 6.4 secs.

test 8 in X 8 in -

8 bit: 40.7 secs
16 bit: 55.5 secs


I can't wait for my 8 core (Mac Pro...)

8 bit 6-7 sec
16 bit 11 sec both timed with wristwatch


Dual Quad core Xeon 2.13Ghz (E5330), 8Gb Ram (2Gb ram disk as scratch)
Win XP 64 bit Photoshop CS3
Tyan Tempest i5000XT mobo, Quadro FX3500
Dell 3008 wfp + Dell 2407 wfp

Gaza

1.67 GHz Intel Core2
1024Mb RAM
Windows Vista business

tested 8-bit only: 45 sec.

Cool result , it took about 1min 20 sec on a dell work station with xeon 2.33mhz and i gig mem

John