'Real World' Photoshop Benchmark - Speed Test - Page 5

contoursvt · May 28, 2006, 12:41 AM

Dont feel bad because this benchmark creates an image of about 500mb I believe so during operations it may need in excess of 2.5gigs of memory so if anyone has less than that, it will grind to a halt as it its your page file.

For example, if a dual G5 with 4 gig did the test in 1 minute and a G4 with 1.5 gigs did it in 10 minutes, I would be willing to bet that a G4 with 4 gigs of RAM would get it done in about 3 minutes.... This can be tested by modifying the action file to resize the image to one thats about 1/2 the size and see what the percentage speed increase is for teh machines that have a ton of ram and ones that have less than a ton of ram.

FF_productions · May 28, 2006, 12:45 AM

That is true, I'm really slowing myself down though by using the internal drive for the speed test. I'm running OSX, Photoshop's speed test, and then "virtual memory" all on one drive.

mezhopking · May 29, 2006, 07:14 PM

8min 30sec (all on internal hd)
Macbook Pro (with the damn whine!):
2.16ghz
1gb ram
100gb 7200rpm hd
Photoshop CS2

Pretty slow, but compared to my old 2ghz AMD pc, which took 16mins, it's pretty speedy.

I'll have to try connecting my external hd and see if it improves it much.

JRM PowerPod · May 29, 2006, 08:53 PM

Let me go test me quad

JRM PowerPod · May 29, 2006, 09:17 PM

What the?

It took my Quad 2:01.50

Thats with Quad 2.5 4gb 2X500gb SATA 7800gtx

Thats crap!

Platform · Jun 4, 2006, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JRM PowerPod

What the?

It took my Quad 2:01.50

Thats with Quad 2.5 4gb 2X500gb SATA 7800gtx

Thats crap!

7800gtx

Where did you get that card?

neocell · 11:54 AM

iMac G4 17": 1GHz, 768MB, 80GB HD (35GB free), nothing running but Photoshop CS: 10 min 15 sec

I'll try my PB in a bit.

PB G4 12": 1.33GHz, 1.25GB, 80GB HD (39GB free), nothing running but Photoshop CS: 7 min 1 sec

Abulia · Jun 5, 2006, 02:48 PM

Speed tests on a 2.0 GHz MacBook with a variety of memory configurations (dual channel and single) plus Windows results on the same box.

Read about it here.

jessek · Jun 5, 2006, 05:54 PM

4:20 - MBP 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 7200RPM 100GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 20 History States
4:57 - PB G4 1.33GHz, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM 80GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 20 History States
3:15 - MBP 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 7200RPM 100GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 1 History State.

The 7200 RPM drive really helped my MBP vs my old G4. I've been a bit underwhelmed by the MBP's speed, but everything I use for work is going through Rosetta, so it's not too surprising.

mandis · Jun 5, 2006, 06:32 PM

00:04:18:36

(Adobe CS1)

Obsidian6 · 02:14 PM

I posted my results over on macNN ( i forgot i had an account here! lol )

I ran it on my G5

Dual 2.7Ghz
6.5GB RAM
400GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon 9650 256MB
No Scratch Disk
Photoshop CS2

Time: 51sec.

And on my Powerbook

17" 1.5Ghz G4
2GB RAM
80GB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 128MB
Photoshop CS2

Time: 3min 5sec

adamfilip · Jun 8, 2006, 06:27 PM

1 minute 15 seconds

did a restart
photoshop history state is 1
cpu set to highest performance
cache is 4
85% ram of 3gb

3 scratch disks

Dual 2.0 G5 Powermac
Ati X800Xt 256Mb Video card
74gb Raptor 10,000 rpm Boot drive

irishgrizzly · Jun 8, 2006, 08:09 PM

9:35 sec

iBook
1.07ghz
768gb ram
80gb 5,400rpm hd
Photoshop CS1

dogbone · Jun 9, 2006, 10:30 AM

4mins 17seconds.

eMac 1.42GHz 1.5Gig Ram 70% to Photoshop CS history at 50 states.

imacintel · Jun 10, 2006, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandis

00:04:18:36

(Adobe CS1)

Is that 4 hours??? On a PowerBook?

iamhammill · Jun 11, 2006, 02:45 PM

Hmmm, think I did something wrong.

MacBook 2.0 GHZ
60 GB HD
1 GB RAM

Took me 11 mins, 12 seconds running CS1. Seems kinda slow.

Obsidian6 · Jun 12, 2006, 02:13 PM

yeah the other macbooks were in the 5-minute range.

what were your history states set at? and was your macbook hitting any page-outs?

mintzmeteor · Jun 14, 2006, 12:39 AM

thanks for this easy test for my newly acquired tower. it was really cheap, and allowed me to graduate from my slower imac g5. but the test i took from cinebench, and others wasn't telling me much. at least i thought i had problems with my new pride. i use photoshop extensively for my living, and this test tested the speed of my computer in an often used program. how clever!! and my results are on par with other forum users.
powermac g5/ dp 1.8 ghz/ 3 gigram/ geforce5200-64mb/ new seagate 160gbsata platter 7200rpm/ and asd 17"/ and a plug to the wall... my time.......2 minutes and 18 seconds.

thanks for this forum, and the test.

SC68Cal · 04:39 PM

edit: New results posted below

eXan · Jun 14, 2006, 06:58 AM

I decided to do this test on my iMac G5 rev. B (2GHz G5, 1.5 GB RAM, 160 GB HD - 10 gigs free, 10.4.6, PS CS2)

1) This is strange... I ran this test 4 times: first two after I downloaded it (with Safari taking ~ 80 MB of RAM) and 2 other times after restart.

So during the very 1st run I got 3:43
2nd time AND 3rd time I got 4:17 (it seemed to stall at guassuan blur, the CPU was idle, I assume it was writing to disk heavily). I restarted the computer before 3rd run.

2) This time I reduced history states from 200 to 1 (!). I did not restart the computer itself. So... time I got was impressing 2:03

, more than two times as fast as with 200 history states.

All four tests were performed after restarting Photoshop. If you're interested, I got 41751 pageout and 3.4 gigs were written to HD during 3rd test and after each run Photoshop was using 980-1000 MB RAM.

SC68Cal · Jun 14, 2006, 04:34 PM

avg between two tests: 9mins 16 seconds

Powermac G4 Dual 500mhz "Gigabit Ethernet"
1 GB SDRAM
Tiger
CS 1

What was interesting to note is that the processors averaged around 80% load, and I did have iTunes running in the background playing podcasts, as well as iChat.

I think it's kind of funny/sad for all of you guys running Rosetta and getting results that are as slow as mine.

FF_productions · Jun 16, 2006, 12:20 PM

Dual Core 2.3 G5
2.5 Gigs of ram
250 gig drive
Tiger
256 mb's graphics

I got 2:19 (this is my uncles computer)

Obsidian6 · Jun 16, 2006, 05:06 PM

the DC 2.3GHz is capable of a much faster time than that. it should be right up there with my DP 2.7GHz

NickElls · Jun 16, 2006, 07:20 PM

My old iMac took about 12 minutes, then it just stopped working. Let's see how the new one handles it.

1.8 Ghz iMac Core Duo with 1 gigabyte of RAM, using CS2...

6:00:92... nice. That's six minutes, by the way.

FF_productions · Jun 16, 2006, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AGoglanian

the DC 2.3GHz is capable of a much faster time than that. it should be right up there with my DP 2.7GHz

I'm going to try it again the next time I go to my uncle's office.

May 28, 2006, 12:45 AM	#102
FF_productions macrumors 68030 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mt. Prospect, Illinois	That is true, I'm really slowing myself down though by using the internal drive for the speed test. I'm running OSX, Photoshop's speed test, and then "virtual memory" all on one drive. __________________ Home: Mac Pro, Quad 2.66 Work: 27" iMac, Quad 3.4 i7
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May 29, 2006, 08:53 PM	#104
JRM PowerPod macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Outback Australia	Let me go test me quad __________________ MacBook Alum - 2.4GHZ 4GB 64GB SSD MacBook BLK - 2GHZ 2GB 100GB iPhone 3G 8GB
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May 29, 2006, 09:17 PM	#105
JRM PowerPod macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Outback Australia	What the? It took my Quad 2:01.50 Thats with Quad 2.5 4gb 2X500gb SATA 7800gtx Thats crap! __________________ MacBook Alum - 2.4GHZ 4GB 64GB SSD MacBook BLK - 2GHZ 2GB 100GB iPhone 3G 8GB
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Jun 4, 2006, 11:35 AM	#107
neocell macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2005 Location: Great White North	iMac G4 17": 1GHz, 768MB, 80GB HD (35GB free), nothing running but Photoshop CS: 10 min 15 sec I'll try my PB in a bit. PB G4 12": 1.33GHz, 1.25GB, 80GB HD (39GB free), nothing running but Photoshop CS: 7 min 1 sec __________________ 12" G4 PB 1.33GHz 80GB HD 1.25GB 17" G4 iMac 1GHz 80GB HD 768MB 4G iPod 20GB Last edited by neocell; Jun 4, 2006 at 11:54 AM. Reason: added PB values
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Jun 5, 2006, 02:48 PM	#108
Abulia macrumors 68000 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Kushiel's Scion	Speed tests on a 2.0 GHz MacBook with a variety of memory configurations (dual channel and single) plus Windows results on the same box. Read about it here. __________________ Mac Pro 4,1 (flashed 5,1) 6x3.33 GHz \| 12 GB \| 256 GB SSD RAID 0 \| ATI 5870 \| 27" Cinema Display
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May 28, 2006, 12:41 AM	#101
contoursvt macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2005	Dont feel bad because this benchmark creates an image of about 500mb I believe so during operations it may need in excess of 2.5gigs of memory so if anyone has less than that, it will grind to a halt as it its your page file. For example, if a dual G5 with 4 gig did the test in 1 minute and a G4 with 1.5 gigs did it in 10 minutes, I would be willing to bet that a G4 with 4 gigs of RAM would get it done in about 3 minutes.... This can be tested by modifying the action file to resize the image to one thats about 1/2 the size and see what the percentage speed increase is for teh machines that have a ton of ram and ones that have less than a ton of ram.
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May 29, 2006, 07:14 PM	#103
mezhopking macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2006	8min 30sec (all on internal hd) Macbook Pro (with the damn whine!): 2.16ghz 1gb ram 100gb 7200rpm hd Photoshop CS2 Pretty slow, but compared to my old 2ghz AMD pc, which took 16mins, it's pretty speedy. I'll have to try connecting my external hd and see if it improves it much.
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Jun 5, 2006, 05:54 PM	#109
jessek macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2006	4:20 - MBP 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 7200RPM 100GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 20 History States 4:57 - PB G4 1.33GHz, 2GB RAM, 5400RPM 80GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 20 History States 3:15 - MBP 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 7200RPM 100GB Hard Drive, Photoshop CS, 1 History State. The 7200 RPM drive really helped my MBP vs my old G4. I've been a bit underwhelmed by the MBP's speed, but everything I use for work is going through Rosetta, so it's not too surprising.
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Jun 5, 2006, 06:32 PM	#110
mandis Banned Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: UK	00:04:18:36 (Adobe CS1)
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Jun 7, 2006, 04:12 PM	#111
Obsidian6 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aliso Viejo, CA	I posted my results over on macNN ( i forgot i had an account here! lol ) I ran it on my G5 Dual 2.7Ghz 6.5GB RAM 400GB Hard Drive ATI Radeon 9650 256MB No Scratch Disk Photoshop CS2 Time: 51sec. And on my Powerbook 17" 1.5Ghz G4 2GB RAM 80GB Hard Drive ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 128MB Photoshop CS2 Time: 3min 5sec __________________ www.goglanianphoto.com Analog / Digital Retina iPad 64GB / 15" MBP 2.7GHz Last edited by Obsidian6; Jun 12, 2006 at 02:14 PM.
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Jun 8, 2006, 06:27 PM	#112
adamfilip macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: burlington, Ontario canada	1 minute 15 seconds did a restart photoshop history state is 1 cpu set to highest performance cache is 4 85% ram of 3gb 3 scratch disks Dual 2.0 G5 Powermac Ati X800Xt 256Mb Video card 74gb Raptor 10,000 rpm Boot drive __________________ Hackintosh i7 New Ipad 3 , Ipad Shuffle 1GB, Ipod Touch, Apple TV3, Canon 40D DSLR,Epson 1660 scan,
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Jun 8, 2006, 08:09 PM	#113
irishgrizzly macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2006	9:35 sec iBook 1.07ghz 768gb ram 80gb 5,400rpm hd Photoshop CS1
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Jun 9, 2006, 10:30 AM	#114
dogbone Banned Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: S33.687308617200465 E150.31341791152954	4mins 17seconds. eMac 1.42GHz 1.5Gig Ram 70% to Photoshop CS history at 50 states.
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Jun 11, 2006, 02:45 PM	#116
iamhammill macrumors 6502 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: York, PA	Hmmm, think I did something wrong. MacBook 2.0 GHZ 60 GB HD 1 GB RAM Took me 11 mins, 12 seconds running CS1. Seems kinda slow.
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Jun 12, 2006, 02:13 PM	#117
Obsidian6 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aliso Viejo, CA	yeah the other macbooks were in the 5-minute range. what were your history states set at? and was your macbook hitting any page-outs? __________________ www.goglanianphoto.com Analog / Digital Retina iPad 64GB / 15" MBP 2.7GHz
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Jun 14, 2006, 12:39 AM	#118
mintzmeteor macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2006	this is great... thanks for this easy test for my newly acquired tower. it was really cheap, and allowed me to graduate from my slower imac g5. but the test i took from cinebench, and others wasn't telling me much. at least i thought i had problems with my new pride. i use photoshop extensively for my living, and this test tested the speed of my computer in an often used program. how clever!! and my results are on par with other forum users. powermac g5/ dp 1.8 ghz/ 3 gigram/ geforce5200-64mb/ new seagate 160gbsata platter 7200rpm/ and asd 17"/ and a plug to the wall... my time.......2 minutes and 18 seconds. thanks for this forum, and the test.
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Jun 14, 2006, 12:41 AM	#119
SC68Cal macrumors 68000 Join Date: Feb 2006	edit: New results posted below Last edited by SC68Cal; Jun 14, 2006 at 04:39 PM.
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Jun 14, 2006, 06:58 AM	#120
eXan macrumors 601 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Near Korea, Japan and China.	I decided to do this test on my iMac G5 rev. B (2GHz G5, 1.5 GB RAM, 160 GB HD - 10 gigs free, 10.4.6, PS CS2) 1) This is strange... I ran this test 4 times: first two after I downloaded it (with Safari taking ~ 80 MB of RAM) and 2 other times after restart. So during the very 1st run I got 3:43 2nd time AND 3rd time I got 4:17 (it seemed to stall at guassuan blur, the CPU was idle, I assume it was writing to disk heavily). I restarted the computer before 3rd run. 2) This time I reduced history states from 200 to 1 (!). I did not restart the computer itself. So... time I got was impressing 2:03 , more than two times as fast as with 200 history states. All four tests were performed after restarting Photoshop. If you're interested, I got 41751 pageout and 3.4 gigs were written to HD during 3rd test and after each run Photoshop was using 980-1000 MB RAM. __________________ My WoW videos 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz \| 4 GB \| 500 GB \| Radeon 6750 13" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz \| 4 GB \| 250 GB \| GeForce 320m
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Jun 14, 2006, 04:34 PM	#121
SC68Cal macrumors 68000 Join Date: Feb 2006	avg between two tests: 9mins 16 seconds Powermac G4 Dual 500mhz "Gigabit Ethernet" 1 GB SDRAM Tiger CS 1 What was interesting to note is that the processors averaged around 80% load, and I did have iTunes running in the background playing podcasts, as well as iChat. I think it's kind of funny/sad for all of you guys running Rosetta and getting results that are as slow as mine.
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Jun 16, 2006, 12:20 PM	#122
FF_productions macrumors 68030 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Mt. Prospect, Illinois	Dual Core 2.3 G5 2.5 Gigs of ram 250 gig drive Tiger 256 mb's graphics I got 2:19 (this is my uncles computer) __________________ Home: Mac Pro, Quad 2.66 Work: 27" iMac, Quad 3.4 i7
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Jun 16, 2006, 05:06 PM	#123
Obsidian6 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aliso Viejo, CA	the DC 2.3GHz is capable of a much faster time than that. it should be right up there with my DP 2.7GHz __________________ www.goglanianphoto.com Analog / Digital Retina iPad 64GB / 15" MBP 2.7GHz
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Jun 16, 2006, 07:20 PM	#124
NickElls macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2005	My old iMac took about 12 minutes, then it just stopped working. Let's see how the new one handles it. 1.8 Ghz iMac Core Duo with 1 gigabyte of RAM, using CS2... 6:00:92... nice. That's six minutes, by the way. __________________ Here's to the crazy ones.
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