Benchmark Photoshop Speed Test

[Moppie]

I wonder, at what point does this test simply become outdated for modern hardware?

Is there a point where the gains are so small, i.e going from 12 secs to 10 secs (ok, its 20%, but its ONLY 2 seconds!), that the test is no longer accurate and useful?



The last thing we want to see is the test become meaningless.

[wlescall]

I wonder, at what point does this test simply become outdated for modern hardware?

Is there a point where the gains are so small, i.e going from 12 secs to 10 secs (ok, its 20%, but its ONLY 2 seconds!), that the test is no longer accurate and useful?



The last thing we want to see is the test become meaningless.

I agree. If I am so time constrained that I have to eke out that last 2 sec or even a couple of minutes, then I'm messing up earlier in my workflow or my photography. The only time I mess around a lot with my pics is when I'm feeling "artistic". :lol:

[cccc]

18 seconds:
i7 920
p6t mobo
6gb cheapo ram (3.25 available)
ati radeon 3850 card
on 32 bit cs3

All working on a vista 64 bit system (which rocks.)

[CyberDyneSystems]

I wonder, at what point does this test simply become outdated for modern hardware?

Is there a point where the gains are so small, i.e going from 12 secs to 10 secs (ok, its 20%, but its ONLY 2 seconds!), that the test is no longer accurate and useful?



The last thing we want to see is the test become meaningless.

We could easily make our own when we decide that's the case...

We could even use the same actions, and merely use a larger photo..

Easy would be to start with larger photo, and record new steps on top of this one. we should consider what additional steps would really stress the system.

[Bwaze]

Thanks very much for re-hosting the test! At least I know my computer runs as it should. :D

Previous scores:

On Windows Vista 32bit:
Intel E6750 @ 2,66 GHz, Asus P5K, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS: 40s
Intel E6750 @ 3,5 GHz, Asus P5K, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS: 33s

And now...

Windows 7 64bit:
Intel i920 @2,66 GHz, Asus P6T, 6 GB RAM, GeForce 8800 GTS: 18s

[Yogesh Sarkar]

looks like I got the highest score , 13mins and 21seconds on a acer eee pc 900ha with 160gb 5400rpm hdd, intel n270 cpu and 1 gb ram :p

[tim]

Photoshop benchmarks are useful to show the RAW power of a PC, but in practice how many photographers use Photoshop in that way any more? The benchmarks use filters and things a lot, and many many layers. Most modern PCs are fast enough for interactive use on one image at a time, performance issues tend to mostly be when working on batches of images inside ACR/Lightroom, or batch converting many images.

An interesting benchmark would be adjusting a bunch of things in ACR/Lightroom, then batch converting the images, but unfortunately it's not easy to script LR/ACR as far as I know. Testing batch conversion would be possible with a standard set of RAW files and a stopwatch, but you'd need at least 50, which would be 500MB or more. I could host something that size via BitTorrent so long as people seeded generously.

[Moppie]

New thread for the new test here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=717898

[equetefue]

link not working

[Moppie]

All fixed, I merged a couple of threads and messed things up :)
(Tim knows, but I have powers to hide even bigger mistakes....)

[tommykjensen]

Ok tested my current machine:

Pentium 4 3,20 GHz dual core, 4 GB ram (3,25 GB available), Windows XP SP 3 (32 bit)

Time: 1 minute and 27 seconds.

Will be interesting to test again in a few days when I got my new machine:

- Gigabyte GA-X58-UD4 motherboard
- Core i7-920 4x2.66GHz 4,8GT/sec
- 12 GB DDR3 TriChannel(1333MHz)
- 2 x Seagate 1500GB S-ATAII 3Gb/s 32mb
- 2 x WD Raptor 150GB 10000rpm (one for Vista and one for ps scratch disk)
- Pioneer Blu-Ray Combo BDC-202BK
- Nvidia GTX295 1792MB PCI-E
- SilverStone KL01B

On the new machine it takes 18 seconds.

[René Damkot]

Nice :)

[PM01]

Haven't tried it with the new rig yet. i7 965 Extreme at 4.0Ghz, EVGA X58 Classified, 6 gigs of Corsair DDR3 GT ram, dual gtx295 SLI, 9800 gtx for PhysX, and a few other goodies.

Any guesses? :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

On the new machine it takes 18 seconds.

That's a tidy upgrade!

[maranelloboy05]

I got 48 seconds on my new 13" MBP

2.53 core 2 duo
4GB ram
9400m

[abc2000]

i got 27 seconds on a :
Intel core 2 quad 9550
4Gb of Gskill Ram
asus P5Q Pro Turbo
NVidia 9400 GT

[Sauk]

24 seconds

Windows 7 64bit
Intel Quad Core 6600 (overclocked to 3.0 GHz)
8GB 800 Ram
Gigabyte Board
1TB Raid 0
Nvidia 9800 GTx

[Aszental]

Sigh dont know why my comp is so slow.

Intel i7 920
6 gig ram
gtx 275
Windows 7 64 Bit

... 25 seconds.

[jhuse]

My build is old and just got through with the test.

77 sec

Asus p5l-mx board
pentium d 805 dual core OC to 3.0 GH
4 GB G Skill Ram
160 G Scratch disc
Nvidia Geforce 6800 XT
XP Pro 32 Bit

I think my bottleneck is in my fsb of my processor, im sure a core 2 duo in this board would be a little quicker but im happy for now. gonna build a new rig soon.

[edwardcc]

Kind of late in the game, but I just stumbled across this thread.

25.7 sec

Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L
Intel E5200 @ 3.5GHz
Corsair 4GB DDR2 RAM
ATI 2600HD Pro 512 MB

Not bad for a super cheap machine. What's the general consensus on building a dedicated image processing machine? It seems like an insanely fast OC'd C2D would tear it up. The Core i7 920 seems decent, but expensive. Any thoughts on an Intel Xeon W3520 (3.16GHz) x2 setup? Maybe Adobe will better optimize CS5 for multiple threads.

[Raizer]

31 seconds with CS4
AMD Phenom X4 9600, 4gig ram, Palit 9800GT

[Route246]

18 seconds.

CS4

Home-assembled, purpose-built
i7 920 12GB RAM
Win7 Pro
ATI Radeon HD4800 Series
Dual 300GB Velociraptors

[R.Perez]

Sigh dont know why my comp is so slow.

Intel i7 920
6 gig ram
gtx 275
Windows 7 64 Bit

... 25 seconds.

rest of the specs?

[gambit]

48.5 secs in 32bit and
47.5 secs in 64bit mode

On my Mac Book Pro 4,1
2.4 ghz
6gb ram
80gb intel SSD
OS-X 10.6.1
256mb 8600m video card

[tester3000]

16 seconds :lol:

[lens pirate]

12 seconds Photoshop other than scratch drive locations set to default settings like I use everyday. Not a fresh boot and I had email and Internet explorer open with about a 6 tabs. In other words I ran this test in exactly the environment I normally use photoshop in.

Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Adobe CS4 64 bit
i7 920 oc'd to 3.8
12 gig ram at 1600
Asus Rampage extreme 11 system board
Slow segate 1 tb drive
Scratch file set to a 5 gig compressed RAM DRIVE (superspeed)

I wont lie, I am really proud of my rig. Best PC I ever built.

[Bruno1520]

7 min. 28 sec.
on a Toshiba M40 Satellite laptop 1.8Ghz and 2GB Ram Windows XP Pro.
My old desktop would be slower with its 1.53GHz AMD Athlon and 2.5 GB of Ram.
I will be updating to one of those i7 920 systems very soon!!!

[John_TX]

For those of you with the Core i7 systems, what is your experience with Hyperthreading?
Have you tried running the speed test with and without HT enabled?
If so, which produced the fastest times?

I'm trying to decide if HT is worth it (debating between i7-860 & i5-750).

[FatCat0]

3 mins 27 seconds, running on a lenovo x200 tablet:
Core2Duo L9400 1.86 ghz processor
4 gigs of ddr3 ram
5200 RPM almost-full HD

And I left the settings in photoshop to default (other than allowing it to gobble up 100% of my ram)

[mardrew]

Just finished building a new rig a week ago.

got 12.5 secs on this test, however, I'm still waiting for a new graphics card (5970).

Specs at the moment:

i7 920 overclocked to 4.0 GHz
12 gigs g.skill ram at 1900 MHz
Nvidia 8800 gt
Asus P6X58 Premium
Intel 2nd gen. SSD 160 gig running Win 7 x64
WD 1.5 TB Green drive running Photoshop CS4 x64

Air cooled with Noctua NH-U12P SE2

CPU-Z Validation
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=996558

[kayl]

Just for kicks and giggles, I ran the photoshop benchmark on my 7 year old system:

Sager 8890 Laptop
P4 3.0ghz HT enabled
1gb dual channel DDR400mhz (I remember when this was absolutely incredible to have in a laptop LOL)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro w/ 128mb Memory
60gb Hitachi 5400rpm Notebook Drive

Total time: 8:22

[roonsmits]

Same machine as below, except for: the CPU is now an OC-ed Core 2 Quad Q9550, that runs CS4 at 3.4Ghz (stock should be 2.66Ghz) and a retail (vanilla) Snow Leopard:

17sec.

Ronald


Running the test on my machine with these specs:

Gigabyte_P35-DS3R mainboard, Intel Core2Duo 6850 3Ghz processor (not over clocked) 4Gb of GEIL 800Mhz RAM, WD 160Gb SATA-II system disc, 320Gb WD SATA-II datadisc

37sec.

The test was done while running Mac OSx 10.5.1 and PS CS3 (Hackintosh, see http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?) no idea what the score would be running XP.

after OC-ing to 3.5Ghz, it took 30 seconds.

cheers,
Ronald

[Sauk]

iMac i7 with 8GB Ram.

23 seconds.

[Moppie]

Same basic set up as the first time I ran this way back in February 2008: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=4868614&postcount=139

However, I've added 2GB of ram for a total of 6GB.
Moved to Windows 7 64bit, and PS CS4 64bit.
Also replaced the OS drive with an old 500GB back up drive, and the secondary scratch is now a 1TB WD Green drive, while the primary is the same 320GB.


Old time: 45sec
New time: 26sec :cool:

Shows the massive difference moving to 64bit can make.
Also makes me glad I didn't bother with an i7 upgrade just yet :)

[EOS_JD]

W7
6Gb RAM
Q6600 (o/c @ 3.2GHz)
6600GT Graphics
Ps CS4 64Bit - 45 secs

Ps 32 bit 1:08

Recent memory upgrade makes a difference :)

[Moppie]

W7
6Gb RAM
Q6600 (o/c @ 3.2GHz)
6600GT Graphics
Ps CS4 64Bit - 45 secs

Ps 32 bit 1:08

Recent memory upgrade makes a difference :)


You've got something set wrong, I managed 45sec with 4GB of ram, 32bit and a stock Q6600.

[EOS_JD]

You've got something set wrong, I managed 45sec with 4GB of ram, 32bit and a stock Q6600.

Could it be my Graphics Card?

I'll take the clock speed down to see what the difference is.

[Moppie]

Could it be my Graphics Card?

I'll take the clock speed down to see what the difference is.

No, sounds like a setting in Photoshop, perhaps to many history states, or not enough RAM usage allowed.
Check the instructions in the download and run it again.

[EOS_JD]

No, sounds like a setting in Photoshop, perhaps to many history states, or not enough RAM usage allowed.
Check the instructions in the download and run it again.

Who reads instructions?!:o

Done again

32 bit - 32 secs
64 bit - 27 secs

But I do have a few apps running in the b/g. I set my cpu back to 2.4GHz so will try my c/c again to see if there was any difference.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers
Jim

[EOS_JD]

With overclock to 3GHz

32 bit - 24 secs
64 bit 22 secs

:)

[tundraman]

4 year old XPS M140 laptop, Win7 32-bit, 2GB RAM, Intel Pentium M 1.87GHz, CS4

640s = 10.67min

It's time for an upgrade....

[MikeC710]

I ran this on a 3 day old i7 win7/64 machine with 6gb ram and CS4 in 209 sec. Could I have done something wrong?

Edit - oops, I ran the new test that is more difficult - nevermind.

[akiwi]

I ran this test a few years ago on my laptop and I remember it took minutes.

On my new machine

Packard Bell iExtreme M5740
Processor: Intel cor i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67 GHz
Ram: 6.0 GB
Win 7 64
CS4 64

time = 19.6 seconds.

I'll try the new test

[osmaneralp]

FWIW, I get 14s using the following setup:
Windows 7 64 bit
i7 920 @ 3.8 GHz
6 GB RAM
Intel SSD as primary drive and PS swap drive

--Osman

[emdzey01]

31.4 sec

Gateway DX4300-11
- AMD Phenom II X4 805 (2.5ghz)
- 8gb DDR2
- 1tb 7200 sata
- on-board video
- windows 7 home premium 64bit
- photoshop cs5 64bit

31.4sec...... and i bought it at bestbuy on clearance for 374.99 LOL

[ebann]

Homebrew machine:

Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (stock speed)
2x 1GB DDR2 667MHz (dual channel mode)
XFX GeForce 7600GT (PCIe)
2x 320GB SATA 7200RPM
Windows FLP SP3 32-bit (will install Vista 64-bit next)
PS CS2 32-bit

45sec

paid $200 for this upgrade coming from a P4/3GHz HT 2x512MB DDR400 GMA900 system.

[bexamous]

little less than 17s

i7@3.5ghz, 12GB RAM

[ebann]

Same basic set up as the first time I ran this way back in February 2008: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=4868614&postcount=139

However, I've added 2GB of ram for a total of 6GB.
Moved to Windows 7 64bit, and PS CS4 64bit.
Also replaced the OS drive with an old 500GB back up drive, and the secondary scratch is now a 1TB WD Green drive, while the primary is the same 320GB.


Old time: 45sec
New time: 26sec :cool:

Shows the massive difference moving to 64bit can make.
Also makes me glad I didn't bother with an i7 upgrade just yet :)

Hmm... that means my rig can be improved... currently running on 2GB and my board takes 4GB max... Vista 64-bit would allow more RAM addressing but I think I would stumble on the 3.2GB RAM limit due to motherboard limitations right? Is it worth going all-in with 4GB even though I won't be able to use it all? Maybe 1x1GB and 1x2GB, but I would lose dual channel mode.

[TTk]

Homebrew
4 years old,
Intel P4 3.2GHz H/T on Dual Bios M/B,
Geforce 7600GS,
2 x 160GB ATA 7200RPM HDD's,
Windows 7 32Bit,
CS5 32Bit.

1min - 49sec's....

[HankScorpio]

I've been contacted by one of the original creators of the speedtest and it's back. The new site for it is
http://www.clubofone.com/speedtest/
The link on my site where I was temporarily hosting it now redirects to the new site.

[J_TULLAR]

Macbook Pro
2.5ghz core 2 duo
2x1 gb ddr2 667mhz dual channel
250gb hd
gforce 8600m gt 512mb
osx 10.5.8

PS CS4

results... a lame ass 2 min 25 sec woot!

I emptied cache, cleared history, turned off Bluetooth, turned off backup, turned off wireless, closed all apps except cs4, and cleared recent items... LOL

New results... a lame ass 2 min 05 sec ROFL!

[poah]

laptop
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 / 2.1 GHz
3GB DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz - PC2-5300
320HDD (pretty full)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS - 128 MB

1:57.9

[momentz]

CPU: Quad core Q6600 (not overclocked)
RAM: 8GB cheap nasty
MB: Asus P5Q
HDD: WD Black 7200rpm 500GB
GFX: GeForce 9800GT
Photoshop CS5 x64
Win7 x64

25 seconds. Not bad for a previous gen rig.

[J_TULLAR]

Okay something is wacky in the tobacky... So I upgrade my ram to 4gb and I get a slower time??? WTF? Went from 2gb ram at 2 min 05 sec to 4gb ram 2 min 15 sec on CS4. What the hell is happening???

[canonphotog]

Okay something is wacky in the tobacky... So I upgrade my ram to 4gb and I get a slower time??? WTF? Went from 2gb ram at 2 min 05 sec to 4gb ram 2 min 15 sec on CS4. What the hell is happening???

This is not unusual. Depending on your system, adding more ram means populating more memory slots on the motherboard. That often lowers the frequency the ram operates at. I have an AMD system that is victim to this phenomena.

You can get better details by searching some tech forums.

[ebann]

Homebrew machine:

Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.50GHz (stock speed)
2x 1GB DDR2 667MHz (dual channel mode) for a total of 2GB RAM
XFX GeForce 7600GT (PCIe)
2x 320GB SATA 7200RPM
Windows FLP SP3 32-bit (will install Vista 64-bit next)
PS CS2 32-bit

45sec

paid $200 for this upgrade coming from a P4/3GHz HT 2x512MB DDR400 GMA900 system.

Small update... BIG difference!

2x 2GB DDR2 800MHz (dual channel mode) for a total of 4GB RAM
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
PS CS4 64-bit

Old time: 45sec
New time: 24 sec

I wonder if installing nVidia GeForce 8800GTS with its CUDA support will improve PS performance since it can now take advantage of the video card's powerful GPU.

[aliflack]

Ouch - 2mins 45 seconds!

Vista 32-bit SP2 on a Sony VGN-SZ4MN running Photoshop CS3
Intel Core 2 T5600 @1.83GHz
2.0Gb RAM

Daren't contemplate running this on my desktop (P4 3.0 GHz)..have been thinking about upgrading to an Core i5 or i7 based system with Win7 64 bit, at least have some backing for the need!

[S.E.V.]

Anyone ever try it out on a 6,8 or 12 core MAC? Curious to see the times on the new MAC Pros.

[thebishopp]

CS5 on:
Dell Studio XPS16 Laptop
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo T9950 @ 2.66/67 GHz
Ram 4gig
Video ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 (1gig)

Time: 48 seconds

[ebann]

Anyone ever try it out on a 6,8 or 12 core MAC? Curious to see the times on the new MAC Pros.

That would be on this thread... machines that does this test < 30 seconds:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=717898

[twofruitz]

Just got it down to 11 seconds on CS5 64bit. Not sure if anyones surpassed this? I reckon I could get it a little lower if I tried.

Core i7 920 d0 step at 3.67ghz - Zalman 9900 cooler.
12gb Corsair DDR3 1600 RAM
Nvidia GTX470 (currently stock speeds, however voltage has been turned up)
128gb Crucial C300 SSD.
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R.

Before I overclocked, it was benching 20 seconds.

[ebann]

Just got it down to 11 seconds on CS5 64bit. Not sure if anyones surpassed this? I reckon I could get it a little lower if I tried.

Core i7 920 d0 step at 3.67ghz - Zalman 9900 cooler.
12gb Corsair DDR3 1600 RAM
Nvidia GTX470 (currently stock speeds, however voltage has been turned up)
128gb Crucial C300 SSD.
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R.

Before I overclocked, it was benching 20 seconds.

For your rig, you need to do the updated test. Check the first post for link.

[I26]

As soon as my laptop arrives I am going to give it a go, before and after tweaks.

[chrisa]

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 12 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Photoshop CS5
26 seconds

[ebann]

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz

Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache: 12 MB
Memory: 10 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Photoshop CS5
26 seconds

Interesting... my system has only 4GB running Vistax64 and CS4x64 on a standard Quad2Core (i.e. non-Xeon) and I managed 24sec.

[I26]

I just ran this on my laptop: 23.66 seconds
I am going to turn off all the background junk (antivirus, and other stuff) and give it another go.

Intel i7-740QM
10GB DDRIII 1333MHz
ATI Radeon HD5870 1GB DDR5
500GB 7200rpm / 640GB 5400rpm

[32103940]

core 2 duo 8500 3.16@4.13GHz. 2 cores, 2 threads
4GB DDR2@1042MHz
PS CS5 x64 installed on
2x 60GB OCZ vertex2 RAID0

21.4s @ 1 history state setting. 42s @ default 20 history states setting. for this particular test i'm seeing a minimum requirement of 4gb RAM, below which your bench results suffer greatly as photoshop starts hitting your scratch disk. if you do have at least 4gb, the entire test operates in RAM and all goes well and the speed test functions as intended--a CPU/RAM benchmarking tool. otherwise, pagefile swapping comes into play and the numbers become useless.

[AJX]

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 x64 , 8,44 seconds

EDIT :
iTunes was Running , without it i get almost 6 seconds , and thats possible by setting your cache tile size to 1024K and higher :)

[Moppie]

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Photoshop CS5 12.0.4 x64 , 8,44 seconds

EDIT :
iTunes was Running , without it i get almost 6 seconds , and thats possible by setting your cache tile size to 1024K and higher :)




Go back and read the instructions again, then do the test properly. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[dougj7]

32 seconds

Dell Optiplex 755 - Quad Core 2.66 ghz - 4 gig ram - Win 7

[AJX]

24 seconds :)

[Curtiss Bryant]

Why does it seem like mine is slow.. I got 26 seconds and would think it should be faster.

AMD 955 @ 3.2ghz
8gb Ram
Geforce 9500gt
Win 7 ultimate

[maranelloboy05]

Just got a new Mac Mini this morning:

20.8s

2.7ghz i7 Dual-core
Raedon 6630m GPU
8GB RAM
500GB 5400rpm HDD

Can't wait to see what it can do once I install a SSD.

[pcschwenke]

Question, can you run the speed test with Elements? I do not have the full version of Photoshop.

[SteveG]

23 Seconds,

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
8 Gb RAM
NVidia 9600 1Gb
Win Vista
PS CS5

[niku2]

15,5 seconds

Intel i5 2500
8gb ram
Intel HD graphics
Asrock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen3
Corsair F60 SSD
CS5 x64