p.18 #2 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
90 secs
Home built:
ASUS CUV4X-DLS (133 FSB)
(2) 933MHz Pentium IIIs
1 GB Mushkin memory
SCSI Ultra 160 with (1) 36 GB drive dedicated to scratch
NVidia 980XGL and dual NEC monitors
Windows 2000 Professional
Photoshop CS
I expected worse considering what I have seen from some of the posts on computers that on paper should be far faster.
p.18 #4 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Hello,
This is my second post to this thread. First was with my 3+ year old Dell, in the 2 minute and some second range.
Got a new camera, decided it was time to get a new computer.
Bought a dual Opteron system from Digital Storm Online - followed their recommendations for compontents.
What a bunch of losers. I would strongly recommend staying away from them. A month later and $500 dollars poorer I decided to make the move to a Mac. Please contact me if you would like the full story.
Now the dual 2.5 G5 with 2.5g ram and 2 250gb sata's running PS CS seems to come in at about 22 seconds.
I sold and programmed PC's in the early 1980's and so have been PC based for quite a while.
I'm now a Mac convert - this thing is really something else.
p.18 #5 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
It is nice to see the Macs doing so well (of course using a dual processor configuration).
My question: Do you have to wait for your Mac to do something? Of course this is usually subjective, but my hyper-threaded P4 seems to still work faster than I do.
Open CR2 9 MB file in ACR 2.4=3 seconds, Open JPEG 3 MB file in PS CS = 3 seconds. Normally I don't notice any lag. To me that says the Open time is HDD dependant.
Save file in 10 MB size range, 1 sec or less. By the time I wonder if it has saved, it has. I had to make a special effort to time.
Save 60 MB PSD file about 3-4 seconds. During this time, the HDD light is on.
PS CS actions are normally complete within the keypress perception.
I have used Macs extensively as well and the most frustrating thing I found was when running something like Adobe Page Maker, was the inability to know what was happening when it would suddenly halt. (or the bomb would appear). I expect that has all changed since this was in 1996-7.
p.18 #7 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
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Dell XPS Laptop with Intel 3.4 GHZ (not extreme edition) with 2 GB ram.
235 seconds
Gateway Select with a 1000 mhz AMD Athlon and 768 mb ram. I know, I am planning on building a new desktop this spring. When purchased, this was the hottest thing around -- 5 years ago.
p.18 #8 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
235 seconds seemed slow in comparison for a 1000 mhz machine so I ran it again and got 234 seconds -- so it is accurate. My question is has anyone tested a AMD FX processor?? I was looking at the FX55 on my upcoming build.
p.18 #10 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
mslammers wrote:
It is nice to see the Macs doing so well (of course using a dual processor configuration).
My question: Do you have to wait for your Mac to do something? Of course this is usually subjective, but my hyper-threaded P4 seems to still work faster than I do.
Open CR2 9 MB file in ACR 2.4=3 seconds, Open JPEG 3 MB file in PS CS = 3 seconds. Normally I don't notice any lag. To me that says the Open time is HDD dependant.
Save file in 10 MB size range, 1 sec or less. By the time I wonder if it has saved, it has. I had to make a special effort to time.
Save 60 MB PSD file about 3-4 seconds. During this time, the HDD light is on.
PS CS actions are normally complete within the keypress perception.
I have used Macs extensively as well and the most frustrating thing I found was when running something like Adobe Page Maker, was the inability to know what was happening when it would suddenly halt. (or the bomb would appear). I expect that has all changed since this was in 1996-7.
Yes Mac have changed quite abit since then. Especially with the new OSX, everything flys. Simple navigation throughout the new OS is a dream now. Also with all the new processor speeds and with all the RAM you can cram, Mac almost edit for you
p.18 #11 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
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Emachines 2.6 GHz Celeron
256 Mb DDR
Win XP home edition
PSCS
I guess you get what you pay for. I didn't expect a fast time considering I got this thing from Best Buy for $250... I knew it was time to upgrade, but you guys are tempting me to go out and get a dual processor now...
Jan 30, 2005 at 08:57 PM
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p.18 #12 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
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Intel Pentium 4HT 3.0 GHz
SATA
1 GB DDR400 Ram
nVidia 6800GT 256MB
Photoshop CS
Windows XP Home
