Photoshop speed test

[Pocoroba]

Hi,

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

3 minutes, 03 seconds.

Better than I'd anticipated.

Not bad for $499.99 + tax.

[i.ilievski]

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

[Pocoroba]

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...

[Daryl Pritchard]

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

[blue dog]

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

1:40

[weiseltron]

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.

[simonbelmont]

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?

[berko1021]

:43 seconds

G5 Dual 2.7 GHz processor
2.5 gb ram
cs2

[Aarius]

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.

[gbrandon]

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

[punkjumper]

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

[gbrandon]

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.

[cmykphoto]

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

[tived]

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

[Mowley]

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)

[cricket1961]

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

[Xeo]

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

[MBPhoto]

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.

[MBPhoto]

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

[drisley]

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.

[paynet]

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.

[mistermonday]

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

[aussie]

dual 2.7 G5 1.5Gb RAM

43 seconds

(with a few minor apps running in the background)

[ptnyc]

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)

[albatrosss]

P4 1.8 GHz, 384 DDR 5:08

[bills]

Hi

Mac G5 Dual 2GHZ power PC 5 Gig Ram

1 minute 5 seconds

Bill

[philbach]

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

[mistermonday]

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"

[sarbeka]

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

[tived]

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