Photoshop speed test

[denschneider]

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

[27ray]

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.

[Lynn]

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!

[chris h]

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


2.8 P4
1gb Ram
2K

2.10

[Tiger_Steve]

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

[saby]

Hi All!

my mac : 1.6GHz G5 2Gb Ram

time: 02:50:26

Saby

[Janet Petty]

Exactly 3 minutes.

Pentium 4; 512 MB RAM

[Ant]

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

[suchyy]

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

The time was:
2 minutes 10 seconds

[pjdodd]

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

Stop using PCs people, please
XXX

[pjdodd]

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

[vinniesworld]

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

[MrChevy]

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

[MrChevy]

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

[PetePixxx]

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).

[WideAngle]

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

[proxy]

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?

[MBChamberlain]

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!

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...

[rondon]

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..

[rondon]

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

[ApostolicFire]

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.

[ApostolicFire]

Ok, my official time is 1:47

[v.bampton]

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

[Rick Stone]

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

[v.bampton]

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?

[MBChamberlain]

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.

[v.bampton]

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!

[MBChamberlain]

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

[v.bampton]

Originally Posted by MBChamberlain

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!

[FinePointImages]

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