Photoshop speed test

[ultraky]

16 seconds @ 8bit
22 seconds @ 16 bit

Mac Pro 2.66
3 gig ram
4x250 RAID0 Scratch
cs3

Alan

[videosean]

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

Originally Posted by tived

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

[flatform]

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

[phannguyen702]

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

[Stav.P]

i have an intel macbook
2GHz, 1gb RAM

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

[arcadhia]

Windows XP Pro
Centrino Pentium
1.73 GHz
Photoshop CS2

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

Nice FX!

[tetsuo]

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

[kyo]

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

[jubbaking]

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

[_andrew]

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

[Cassidy]

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

[bamba0401]

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

Test results: 52 seconds

[mellyrose]

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

[robertkacala]

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

[robertkacala]

sorry 35 sec

[oyster]

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

[saby]

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

osX 10.4.7
CS2

18 sec

saby

[apics]

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........

[Welles]

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

[hfern]

25 seconds

Intel 6700 core 2 duo
4 gigs DDR2
CS3

[djcheetah]

13.9s

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

[CJ Swartz]

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....

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

[meok]

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

[Doug Nelson]

Originally Posted by CJ Swartz

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

I upgraded it about page 4 or so

[Arnold]

20.4 seconds.

AMD Athlon dual core X2 4400+
2 GB ram

[tetsuo]

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

[tetsuo]

further tweaks.

Q6600@4Ghz

will update on results.

[Aarius]

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

[ptnyc]

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!

[RFPhoto]

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