'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test

[hsl]

Black MacBook 2 Ghz Core Duo, 2GB RAM and 100GB 5400RPM disk:

with a lot of apps open and buzy:
1:20 (CS 3)

with no apps open except PS CS3:
1:12 (CS 3)

W00T

[chibianh]

Originally Posted by eXan

Doesnt seem very impressive

That's with 20 history states and 70% memory. Check the post a couple ones above this one and you will see my the same setup with 1 history state scoring 36.8 seconds!

[OSXconvert]

MacbookPro 15" 2.16ghz, 7200rpm hd, 2gb RAM, ext sata scratch, PSRAM=80%, History=1, Cache=6

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

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

[chibianh]

Originally Posted by OSXconvert

MacbookPro 15" 2.16ghz, 7200rpm hd, 2gb RAM, ext sata scratch, PSRAM=80%, History=1, Cache=6

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

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

wow! how is your cs3 vs cs2 time difference for the retouch artists test so much more drastic than mine with the Mac Pro? I only gained ~ 30 seconds compared to your 3 minutes!!

[apfhex]

First of all, I did not follow the instructions exactly. I did not restart (uptime 16 days) and left iTunes, TextEdit, Launch Bar, FontExplorerX, iScrobbler, and Menuet open.

I did change my Photoshop settings according to instructions. 4 levels of cache, 100% RAM, 1 history state.

On my Mac Pro 2.66GHz with 2GB RAM. I ran the test in Photoshop CS3 Beta first, quit, let my system "recover" (the RAM usage made it pretty sluggish), then ran it in Photoshop CS2.

Retouch Artists Speed Test results:
CS3 - 1:02
CS2 - 2:17

[aatawm]

i just ran the retouch artists test on my mac pro with the new beta and it clocked in at 31s

system specs:
2.66 mac pro
2gb ram
600gb raid as scratch
history states: 1
cache: 4

restarted and ran test

[iBookG4user]

My previous results with CS 1 were around 4 minutes 30 seconds. I reran the test with CS 3 and got 1 minute 18 seconds. This was with 1 history state and full RAM usage.

2.0GHz Core Duo
2GB RAM
80GB 5400RPM Hard drive

Scratch set to startup drive.

[petite]

Mac Pro 2.66 (4 GB RAM & Scratch Disk Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250GB)


CS2 Fastest Result:
1:16

CS3 Fastest Result:
0:30


This is from what I see about one minute faster than an average G5 quad.
... and Photoshop is still only utilizing 3GB RAM (at least according to 100% memory setting in Photoshop CS3)

Also, Photoshop CS3 takes about 10 seconds starting up for the first time after boot but about 1.5 - 2 seconds after that.

[longofest]

If you guys could head over to this thread real quick and run the benchmarks listed there, especially if you have a Quad or Mac Pro, that would be great.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=261046

[Karpfish]

Mac Pro 2x2.66
2GB Ram
WD 160Gb Caviar scratch disk

1:35 with no other apps open after reboot

[apfhex]

Originally Posted by aatawm

i just ran the retouch artists test on my mac pro with the new beta and it clocked in at 31s

system specs:
600gb raid as scratch

Wow, does the RAID really make that much of a difference? Twice as fast as mine with otherwise same hardware... a fresh restart wouldn't account for much of that.

[chibianh]

Photoshop CS3, 1 history state, 100% RAM usage, cache set to 6.

35 seconds.

Mac Pro 2.66 w/ 3GB RAM.

[Alex Urchin]

Originally Posted by apfhex

Wow, does the RAID really make that much of a difference? Twice as fast as mine with otherwise same hardware... a fresh restart wouldn't account for much of that.

Actually, a fresh restart and closing all those apps would have a big impact

[Banalltv]

Hey.

I'm using a MacPro Quad Xeon yaddayadda 2.0Ghz, 4x512 Ram as supplied by Apple and the Ati x1900xt as supplied by Apple.

I just ran the RetouchArtists Speedtest, I think they say to set memory usage at 100% but I used 70% for this post and got the same first pass times either way. History = 1, Cache = 6.

Restart machine.

CS2:
First pass: 79 seconds

Quit and restart CS2: second pass: 77 seconds

Not quit CS2, close test image and re-open: third pass: 68 seconds.


Restart computer, start CS3:
First pass: 45 seconds

Quit and restart CS3: second pass: 44 seconds

Not quit CS3, close test image and re-open: third pass: 38 seconds.

I notice a nice sharpening of response and brush sensitivity with CS3, very happy.

[Karpfish]

Mac Pro 2x2.66
2GB Ram
99% usage
History states:1
Cache Level:6
Scratch disk:160GB WD Caviar

CS3:just ran it again, 35 seconds!

[eMagine]

Mac Pro 2.66
3GB Ram

CS3
35 sec.

WOW!!!

[simie]

Originally Posted by simie

Quad G5 2.5 Ghz
5 GB DDR 2
500 Gigabyte HDD
OSX 10.4.8

Photoshop CS2
1 History State
100% Memory

Time 36.03 seconds

Stopwatch Used

Just run the test under CS
Time 35.92 seconds

CS 3 Beta with 1 history state and cache level 6
1st run 53.35 seconds
2nd run 40.50 seconds

The second run, is always faster than the first on my Quad G5, I have done this test multiple times and get the same results. Restarting the Mac makes no difference to the test

[OSXconvert]

Originally Posted by simie

CS 3 Beta with 1 history state and cache level 6
1st run 53.35 seconds
2nd run 40.50 seconds

The second run, is always faster than the first on my Quad G5, I have done this test multiple times and get the same results. Restarting the Mac makes no difference to the test

Does this mean the death of the quad G5 finally? I was wondering if Apple was nudging Adobe to spend all of their optimization time on intel and perhaps they are. I think the dual 3.0 ghz is now the king for Photoshop using CS3 beta. But probably not by much, ~10-15%.

[Karpfish]

a 3.0 mac pro should get arounf 25-30 seconds, which is a good amount faster than 40 on a quad.

[eXan]

Originally Posted by simie

CS 3 Beta with 1 history state and cache level 6
1st run 53.35 seconds
2nd run 40.50 seconds

The second run, is always faster than the first on my Quad G5, I have done this test multiple times and get the same results. Restarting the Mac makes no difference to the test

It seems that CS3 runs really slowly on PPCs Bad move for Adobe

[HibyPrime]

Originally Posted by OSXconvert

Does this mean the death of the quad G5 finally? I was wondering if Apple was nudging Adobe to spend all of their optimization time on intel and perhaps they are. I think the dual 3.0 ghz is now the king for Photoshop using CS3 beta. But probably not by much, ~10-15%.

Of course the quad xeons are going to be faster than the quad G5s. That's why Apple switched, silly!

I'm sure that both platforms will be faster in the final version, I doubt Adobe is finished with their optimizations - and even if they are, I doubt they released the latest build as the beta anyway..

Edit: Well, one of the reasons they switched anyway...

[simie]

I have just run the test again, this time with dashboard disabled and the results are different.

Setup of CS 3 Beta

1 History State - same as before
100% Ram
Cache level 8

first run 43 seconds (nothing running in the background dashboard disabled)

second run 35 seconds (nothing running in the background dashboard disabled)

Going to try with a reboot now

[simie]

Just tried the same test nothing altered but the Mac restarted

1st run 37 seconds
2nd run 37 seconds

So it appears that Dashboard actually slows down Photoshop on a PPC Mac. But disabling other none used system resources will also increase speed as well.

With Safari running in the background its only 43 seconds.

[TheFuzz]

is anyone else having problems downloading the test files? i don't have them anymore and the site keeps giving me a 403 error(forbidden).

[chibianh]

Originally Posted by TheFuzz

is anyone else having problems downloading the test files? i don't have them anymore and the site keeps giving me a 403 error(forbidden).

catch me on iChat and i can send it to you.