p.10 #3 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
3 min 15 s = 195 sec
Well... I guess I'm one of the slowest guys around here: P4 1.5 GHz with 512 kB RAM, 40 GB 7200 rpm HD
The good news however : tomorrow, UPS will be delivering my brand new PC and this should be another ballpark ( P4 3.0 Ghz + 1GB RAM (DDR2 533Mhz), 2x160 GB S-ATA disks with RAID controller, PCI-E X800SE Graphics card)
From what I've seen, it should clock around 60-70 seconds. That would be a performance increase by factor 3... I'won't have time to test the thing before week-end...
Moreover, it will have USB 2.0 ports! I'm fed up with transferring my 2GB SanDisk Ultra II cards over a USB 1.1 card. It takes up to an half hour today...
p.10 #8 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
56.8 seconds - run the first time after launching photoshop
48.7 seconds - run subsequent times
home machine: Dual 1gz G4 with 1.75 gig ram with photomechanic, entourage and iTunes running ( cause that's the way I always run PS)
*** hey folks ... don't bother with the stop watch .... use photoshop itself to time the test.
In the bottom left hand corner change the setting from document size to timing via the small triangle before you run the test. (FYY)
p.10 #10 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
79 seconds
I have the very first P4 Dell came out with some 3.5 years ago at 1.4Ghz, running RDRAM to 1.5GB. Thanks to a PowerLeap 2.8Ghz processer upgrade, my old machine is still humming along right up there with many 2.6GHz and higher machines listed on this thread. For anyone wishing to get more out of their old P4 machine, visit powerleap.com; it will keep you running for awhile.
My Toshiba S-305 2.4GHz laptop, on the other hand, is churning at 3:19 minutes! It is box stock with 512mb of RAM. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just what it is?
p.10 #14 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
I have new Dell 8600 today. It is Pentium M 1.6GHz/2MB Cache, 512MB DDRAM, 80GB 5400 Toshiba HD, NVidia FX Go-5200 32MB.
The time is: 67s.
Earlier on this post I had:
Toshiba PIV/3.06 GHZ, 70s. (page 1)
Home built Desktop Celeron 2.4 GHz, 141s. (page 1)
Sony Laptop PCG-GRV 660, PIV/2.4 GHz, constantly 147s. (page9)
It is really Dothan is the winner even with lower clocked CPU speed.
p.10 #15 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
I have a P4 2.8Ghz with hyperthreading technology (HT), 1G ram dual channel, ASUS P4P800DX motherboard that allows me to chnage the clock speed in the bios, etc.
I did a few tests to see how much overclocking and HT will affect the results
HT OFF
at 2.80Ghz (0% overclocking) 79.1s
at 2.94Ghz (5% overclocking) 75.9s
at 3.08Ghz (10% overclocking) 73.3s
at 3.36Ghz (20% overclocking) 65.9s
HT ON
at 2.80Ghz (0% overclocking) 57.7s
at 2.94Ghz (5% overclocking) 54.9s
at 3.08Ghz (10% overclocking) 53.7s
at 3.36Ghz (20% overclocking) 49.1s
Here are my conclusions. HT provides 1.34 to 1.37 times increase in processing speed while overclocking can provide 1.18 to 1.20 times increase in processing speed.
Combining the advantages of both overclocking and HT can provide up to 1.61 times increase in processing speed.
So dual processors definitely have an edge, at least if you are doing a radial blur in PS
p.10 #18 · Let us testing Photoshop speed in our system
Flappie wrote:
3 min 15 s = 195 sec
Well... I guess I'm one of the slowest guys around here: P4 1.5 GHz with 512 kB RAM, 40 GB 7200 rpm HD
The good news however : tomorrow, UPS will be delivering my brand new PC and this should be another ballpark ( P4 3.0 Ghz + 1GB RAM (DDR2 533Mhz), 2x160 GB S-ATA disks with RAID controller, PCI-E X800SE Graphics card)
From what I've seen, it should clock around 60-70 seconds. That would be a performance increase by factor 3... I'won't have time to test the thing before week-end...
Moreover, it will have USB 2.0 ports! I'm fed up with transferring my 2GB SanDisk Ultra II cards over a USB 1.1 card. It takes up to an half hour today...
I installed Photoshop CS this morning on my new PC, and I took just 47 seconds
So my new system is about 4 x faster than my old one.
Transferring a 2GB CF card is now 6 minutes (instead of 30 min)
Internet is also a lot faster...
