p.6 #2 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Time - 57 Sec
Sony Vaio Laptop PCG GRT816S
Nvidia Geforce Fx Go5600 graphics (Nvidia supplied card for Sony Laptop)
Pentium IV @ 2.8
512 ram
Single 80 gig HD.
Done in a Hotel Room otherwise I would have tried on a desktop --still the screen on this Sony Laptop (Onyx Black type) beats most desktops I've seen .
I think the graphics processor on this laptop helps --it's a special one designed specially for the Sony but manufactured under the Nvidia name. The HD on the laptop is also adequate.
More memory would help but it's a real pain adding more memory to most laptops.
p.6 #3 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
xwray wrote:
Gfiksel...you are absolutely correct...I had failed to increase the size so was operating on the smaller picture. I don't know how I missed that since I read the instructions twice. Thanks for pointing out the error. Now, I get results more in line with what others have been posting - 59 seconds. I was beginning to think that PS 6 must not be doing something right since it was looking like that was the difference between my number and those running CS and therefore PS6 is running faster because it must not be working with an "equivalent" algorithm.
p.6 #4 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
For what it's worth. By comparing this result between close/near-close GHz for specific processor (Intel, Mac, AMD), we can know where we stand. If our result not so close with the one we refer, there might be something wrong with our system and need to investigate.
In my case, I was so depressed to have 171s with Toshiba Laptop 3.06GHz. I have changed all the setting of CS to default. Increasing allocated memory for CS, defragmenting the harddisk, uninstalling the anti-virus, etc. All still with constant number: 170 -171 seconds. This lappie really crap at 3.06GHz.
Last thing I did was creating new user in my laptop and launching CS from there. Using newly created user, I run again the test and give me happily 70s, thanks god.
Further investigation I found that the Power Management I had choosen under my username was "Silent".
On "Silent" mode, the processor speed is decreased, maybe down to 2GHZ or even to 1GHz, (It is P4 M 3.06GHz). The CPU fan will only occassionally exhausting. I select "Silent" because I don't like to hear the fan rocketting with high noise all the time.
Since then, I always keep the Power Management to "Performance".
p.6 #5 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
kyle wrote:
Time - 57 Sec
Sony Vaio Laptop PCG GRT816S
Nvidia Geforce Fx Go5600 graphics (Nvidia supplied card for Sony Laptop)
Pentium IV @ 2.8
512 ram
Single 80 gig HD.
Done in a Hotel Room otherwise I would have tried on a desktop --still the screen on this Sony Laptop (Onyx Black type) beats most desktops I've seen .
I think the graphics processor on this laptop helps --it's a special one designed specially for the Sony but manufactured under the Nvidia name. The HD on the laptop is also adequate.
More memory would help but it's a real pain adding more memory to most laptops.
Cheers
-K
I think you're right. I have tested with Sony PCG-GRV660, PIV/2.4GHz, 40GB, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 7200, DVD-RW and got constantly 147s with freshly restored system. It should not that far since the difference is only 0.4GHz but with 258% down on 2.4GHz performance.
p.6 #6 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Time: 55.5 seconds
Self-built system.
I used...
ASUS P4G800-E Deluxe Mothboard
Pentium 3.0GHz Processor
2GB RAM Memory
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB Video Card
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM
Windows XP with SP-2
Adobe Photoshop CS
After looking at some of the duel processor systems... I'm feeling a bit slow... . However, putting it in perspective... I'm never on that much of a deadline that those extra 10-20 seconds would matter to me. I don't work on large amounts of images at once. And if I do batch them... I just work on something else while I wait. Of course, if it were more like a minute difference... that would be another story.
p.6 #7 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
i have to laugh... lol my school laptop is faster then some desktops? i dont understand it... I beat the hell out of this thing too!
its a
Dell Latitude D505 w/ 1.2 G Mobile celeron proccesor. has 512 MB or ram and windows xp pro with SP2.
my time ~75s !
I beat the heck out of this thing i dont think you guys understand, im on my second keyboard and it has been dropped numorus times (thank god for the schools insurence)
p.6 #8 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
30s
G5 dual1.8
2G RAM
everything still turned on (Safari,Mail, Wacom)
I was editing at the time so I had several large files open as well. (700+Mg, 500+Mg, 200+Mg)
I love this awesome machine.
The first one looks out of place, doesn't it? Although the results in this thread are interesting, they are only useful if consistent testing methods are followed.
p.6 #11 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
36 seconds ( give or take about one sec - don't have a real stopwatch)
Dual 1.4 gig G4 with 512 megs ram. 320 (70%) dedicated for photoshop - 5 steps cache level - 15 steps history state ( tends to be important ) scratch disk is on another drive.
I can test out a dual G5 and a dual xeon 2.0 and 2.6 tomorow. problem is that I only have photoshop 7 for the pc ...darn.
PS. Did a test on this machine by putting in another 512 megs of memory ... the results were the same.
I like the idea of testing like this but we need a somewhat comprehesive action to get a better idea ... this is a good start but too narow to be the definative word.
p.6 #12 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
photoshop is only going to run faster with 2 cpu's and more memory than 1.7 gig slows it down. Interesting ... what OS is that that can handle more than 2 gigs? Windows will see four ... but itself can make use of a bit less than two. There will be some cases where a faster processor will be slower than a slower processor. The OS has some impact as well as the software installed and loaded into memory. The only accurate way to do this is on a clean install with only photoshop on the machine. No viruses, malware or resident memory programs. Then there are always mistakes but this is a good rough idea on how photoshop runs on the different possibilities in the real world. Lets do a more comprehensive test ... one that uses photoshops dual processor parts as well as those filters that do not use the second processor. Any ideas?
p.6 #14 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
hi i'm the one with the quad xeon.
the test shows that cpus are very important and also their cache.
it also shows that the file is too small to really pressurize photoshop into using scratch disk.
if scratch disks were to be put into play then is a whole other ball game (if i remembered correctly photoshop can only use 2 GB of memory after that it's the scratch disks).
hyperthreading also helps but by not much.
the os is also important. win2000 is faster than xp and lets not get into discussion about the other versions of windows and how they are faster or slower (the quad xeon was running windows 2003 Enterprise Edition by the way)
p.6 #16 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Anybody want to buy a computer :-)
4 Minutes 28 secs
G4 450 mhz Powermac
OSX 10.3.6
768 MB RAM
Photoshop CS
No other apps open.
I am suprised that this didn't fair any better than John's 500 mhz G3 ibook (page 1). Not sure why this would be?? I didn't expect great numbers, but did expect better numbers from a G4.
p.6 #18 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
dnadrifter wrote:
Anybody want to buy a computer :-)
4 Minutes 28 secs
G4 450 mhz Powermac
OSX 10.3.6
768 MB RAM
Photoshop CS
No other apps open.
I am suprised that this didn't fair any better than John's 500 mhz G3 ibook (page 1). Not sure why this would be?? I didn't expect great numbers, but did expect better numbers from a G4.
You can PM me with bids...... :-)
Not all PS filters are Altivec coded, in which case the G4 will have no advantage over a G3 of similar clock speed and bus speed.
p.6 #19 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Tried a little overclocking - everything below the same, changed the cpu multiplier from 10X to 11X for a core speed of 2205 MHz. - shaved 10 seconds off the timing of the test - new time is 75 seconds. System seems quite stable. Yay!
Photoshop scratch disk WD2000JB (partitioned to 28Gb) on it's own IDE controller, the bulk of this drive is used only for archives, C: drive is boot and programs, a Seagate 200Gb
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. However, putting it in perspective... I'm never on that much of a deadline that those extra 10-20 seconds would matter to me. I don't work on large amounts of images at once. And if I do batch them... I just work on something else while I wait. Of course, if it were more like a minute difference... that would be another story.