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p.1 #1 · PS CS2 speed demons

About 3-4 months ago, there was a thread where people posted their times for doing some manipulations in PS on varying platforms. I have tried in vain to search for this thread, but I keep coming up empty. By chance, do any of you have this thread bookmarked, and if so, could you please paste the URL? I wanna see how my G5 is stacking up. thank you.

- asim

EDIT:

Ok, since CS2 is out, I want to see if numbers are different. I hope isyukri doesn't mind me resurrecting his thread (please let me know if you do), but here goes. Please paste your results from CS2 (since CS1 was covered quite well in the first post linked by Olnibrcn).

Isyukri wrote:
Here are the steps:

This is the test image:

This image is copyrighted by the owner

1. Left click on the image and save it on your desktop, it is 87.6KB size.
2. Open image in Photoshop and resize "Width" to 2000px, the "Height" will change automatically, then click "OK".
3. Click "Filter - Blur - Radial Blur".
4. Set "Amount" to 100. Then select "Spin" and "Best".
5. Do not forget again to select "Best", if you choose lower, the processing time will be shorter and you will not believe speedness of your system

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6. Be ready with the stopwatch. Click "OK" along with start button of your stopwatch.
7. Record the time needed until the progress bar in the lower window of Photoshop disappear.
8. Report the time in seconds along with a bit information of your system.

Tips:
Closing another programs and let Photoshop the only program running will speed-up processing time considerably.

Edited by ent2b on Jun 05, 2005 at 01:56 PM GMT

Edited by ent2b on Jun 05, 2005 at 01:58 PM GMT (Reason: changed thread name and included test info)

Jun 04, 2005 at 04:59 PM

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p.1 #2 · PS CS2 speed demons

I couldn't find it either, I fear it's lost.

Jun 04, 2005 at 05:04 PM

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p.1 #3 · PS CS2 speed demons

*in the same tone as Darth Vader when he learns [CENSORED]...*

NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*disclaimer - i did NOT go to see that movie. see here: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/critics/050523crci_cinema

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, sorry I had to remove this part.

Jun 04, 2005 at 06:04 PM

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p.1 #4 · PS CS2 speed demons

Is this what you were looking for

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/145693/0#1226151

Jun 05, 2005 at 01:14 AM

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p.1 #5 · PS CS2 speed demons

Jim - that's it. I could hug you for finding that. how 'bout just a handshake, though!

much obliged!

- asim

Jun 05, 2005 at 04:41 AM

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p.1 #6 · PS CS2 speed demons

@ Olnibrcn

Jun 05, 2005 at 06:46 AM

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p.1 #7 · PS CS2 speed demons

You're welcome,
I was looking for info on scratch disks. Ran across your question, the next post I looked at was the thread you were looking for... it was eerie. I ran the test and that was depressing. My three-year-old Pentium 1.4mhz, 640meg ram, ran Best mode in 3 min. 17 sec., Good took 19 sec., and Draft was 7 sec. The times in the original post were less than half of my computer times. I think I only beat out the laptop speeds. How did your G5 do?

Jun 05, 2005 at 07:42 PM

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p.1 #8 · PS CS2 speed demons

Jim - things certainly happen mysteriously!

Jun 05, 2005 at 07:54 PM

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p.1 #9 · PS CS2 speed demons

Ok, CS2 on a new vers. G5 dual 2.0 with 4GB RAM, 1 HD, OS X 10.4.1 with numerous processes (illustrator, etc) running in the background, 33.1 secs.

with only CS2 and firefox running, i was down to 29 secs.

Edited by ent2b on Jun 05, 2005 at 09:32 PM GMT (Reason: included OS ver)

Jun 05, 2005 at 07:58 PM

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p.1 #10 · PS CS2 speed demons

hendrik - would you be kind enough to make this thread a sticky so people can see it prominently and add to it? thanks!

Jun 05, 2005 at 08:03 PM

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p.1 #11 · PS CS2 speed demons

2.8 Mhz p4 with 2gig ram - 50 seconds. No additional programs running.

Jun 06, 2005 at 12:13 AM

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p.1 #12 · PS CS2 speed demons

Dual 2.7GHz G5 2.5gig ram. Running OS 10.4.1 - 24 sec

Jun 06, 2005 at 12:34 AM

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p.1 #13 · PS CS2 speed demons

I can't wait for the dual core AMD64's come out so we can bench those. :-D

Jun 06, 2005 at 02:21 AM

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p.1 #14 · PS CS2 speed demons

35sec with
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice(overclocked to 2.6Ghz), rapter 74GB & 2GB ram.
firefox, FTP server & system monitors are running.

BTW, CS2 is faster than the CS. I run this benchmark with CS and it took me 49sec, that's something like 40% faster!

Jun 06, 2005 at 02:56 AM

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p.1 #15 · PS CS2 speed demons

54 seconds
3.0Ghz P4 with 2 gig of ram. No other programs running.

Jun 06, 2005 at 03:41 AM

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p.1 #16 · PS CS2 speed demons

74 seconds

2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM with PS CS2
Lots of programs running in the background - including DVD Shrink (backing up a DVD)....

Jun 06, 2005 at 04:47 AM

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p.1 #17 · PS CS2 speed demons

33 seconds on this system:

AMD A64 (Winchester) 3200+@2.75ghz
1 gig ram
Samsung 160 gb x 3
ATI X800XL graphics
Win XP

Jun 06, 2005 at 11:42 AM

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p.1 #18 · PS CS2 speed demons

... and for a laugh (man, do I sooooooo want a G5)

Mac G4, 400MHz, 960mb RAM, OSX 10.2.8 = 4min 20sec

Judy

Jun 06, 2005 at 12:40 PM

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p.1 #19 · PS CS2 speed demons

84 sec.

15" Powerbook 1.25GHz G4, 1.5 GB Ram, 5400rpmHD

I'm pretty ignorant about how PS uses memory and scratch, but the efficiency in PS never dropped below 100% in my test and I "think" that means that the whole operation took place in ram. The scratch disk did not come in to play. I do see the efficiency drop as low as 60% on my system when running other operations which evidently indicates that PS is writing to scratch.

Am I correct on that? And if so, do any of you hardware geeks know of a good way to quantify scratch disk performance? I've timed various operations that seem to indicate scratch use and the results are inconclusive.

I've seen numerous reports of people claiming that they have increased speed by setting PS scratch to fast external firewire 800 drives, but in my experience this provides little or no benefit and in some cases actually slows things down. Especially if the externals automatically "spin down" due to inactivity.

Edited by Ross Peterson on Jun 10, 2005 at 09:57 AM GMT

Jun 06, 2005 at 01:27 PM

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p.1 #20 · PS CS2 speed demons

well, what'll be interesting is 1 year from now and comparing the winblows numbers to the OSX numbers on the SAME machine!

Jun 06, 2005 at 08:04 PM

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p.1 #21 · PS CS2 speed demons

ent2b wrote:
well, what'll be interesting is 1 year from now and comparing the winblows numbers to the OSX numbers on the SAME machine!

Certainly will be intersting. It's official now isn't it? Are they going strictly Intel or just x86? They shoulda gone AMD.

Jun 06, 2005 at 10:09 PM

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p.1 #22 · PS CS2 speed demons

P4-3.2 gigs with 1 gig RAM - 36 seconds

Jun 06, 2005 at 11:50 PM

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p.1 #23 · PS CS2 speed demons

28.9 seconds

Mac G5 Dual 2GHz with 3.5 GB RAM

Cheers

Jun 07, 2005 at 04:02 AM

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p.1 #24 · PS CS2 speed demons

Drewbob wrote:
28.9 seconds

Mac G5 Dual 2GHz with 3.5 GB RAM

Cheers

ok, so it seems the 0.5GB RAM doesn't make a diff b/w your system and mine.

Jun 07, 2005 at 05:00 AM

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p.1 #25 · PS CS2 speed demons

74 seconds

P4, 2.4 Ghz
1 gb DDR ram
WinXP Home SP2
Radeon 9550 256 mb video card

Not too bad for a two year old Dell. Wish it were faster, though!

Jun 07, 2005 at 01:37 PM


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