Benchmark Photoshop Speed Test

[©andergraph]

EDIT BY MOPPIE:
New thread with the new test, for higher end systems that can run this test in under 30seconds (i7 and greater) here: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=717898


""This speed test is in the form of an action and test image for photoshop and will perform a series of tests to determine how fast your system can perform them, the test must be done with the included image to insure uniformity.

This test has been tested by professional photographers, photoshop professionals and lowly retouch artists! and all are in agreement that this test represents a large amount of the people that use photoshop, although the action could obviously not cater for every element otherwise it would be far to complex for slower systems.""
OK now hosted at:

http://www.clubofone.com/speedtest/

If anyone from Retouch Artists wants me to remove it or contact me for any other reason then use photos (at) agimaging (dot) co (dot) uk

if you post your speed in this thread (instead of submitting) please post system specs and software version detail in here too. Thanks

[©andergraph]

PowerMac G5 DC2.3 | 3.5 GB RAM | 6600 256mb

App Disk = 10k 74gb WD Raptor
Scratch = 250GB Maxtor

Photoshop CS2

1m 25s

[stupot]

Powerbook G4 1.67gHz
1GB RAM
ATI 9700 128mb graphics
100GB 5400rpm Hitachi

Photoshop CS

7mins 26secs bah i want a PowerMac!!!

[tim]

Home built PC, Gigabyte motherboard, Athlon 3500+, 2GB dual channel 400MHz RAM, XP Pro, 2xSeagate 7200 RPM drives (one IDE one SATA), nVidia 6600GT.

5m49sec

This test is limited by the disk IO speed on my machine, not CPU, which isn't anything like my typical workloads. This could be a useful tool to help optimise my machine for photoshop.

[©andergraph]

do you mean your results are limited by the IO speed or do you think there is somehting wrong with the test?

I hope it does indeed a useful tool.

thanks to all for taking part

[stupot]

if someone has a mac mini i'd be interested to know how that performs...

[Dandaman_24]

2mins 50secs
1.5Gb RAM
AMB Athlon 3200
320GB HD

[coreypolis]

3:30

CS2
Homebuilt PC XP 3.2ghz, 2 gig ram,
HDs, OS 160gb, 200gb, 400gb
ati x300

[mbze430]

Hmm, 4:49

CS2
Dell 5150 Dual Core 2.8ghz + 2GB RAM
HD 160GB WD + 300GB Seagate
GeForce 7300 LE

Kinda slow if you ask me..... not sure why

[mysubaruimp]

7:31

CS2
XP Pro
Asus Mobo
3.0Ghz HT P4
1GB RAM
ATI 9800xt
250GB 7200RPM 16MB cache HD

[coreypolis]

i'm sure someone if comes down to how much resources you have dedicated to photoshop in both the available RAM and the available scratch disks, plus whatelse your computer is doing at the time

[tim]

do you mean your results are limited by the IO speed or do you think there is somehting wrong with the test?

I hope it does indeed a useful tool.

thanks to all for taking part

I mean the results are limited by IO speed, i'm going to have a play and see if I can get the time down later :)

[DavidW]

It doesn't seem that useful a test to me - it starts with a fairly large image, resamples it to 300%, changes it to CMYK, Lab then back to RGB, then creates something like 9 layers. That's a far bigger file than most of us work with, and they're not typical workflow steps.

Beware, too, that the action changes your colour settings.


On my machine, I managed to get 3:18 (Photoshop CS2 9.0.1, Dual Xeon 2.66GHz, Windows XP Professional SP2 with the /3GB switch, 3GB of RAM, one 15krpm U320 SCSI 36GB hard disk with the OS and program files, one 15krpm U320 SCSI 36GB hard disk with my swap file, one 7200rpm SATA-300 500GB hard disk that had scratch space on it).

For the test I allowed Photoshop to use 2.5GB of RAM (typical for me - I have about the only setup on which Photoshop can use more than 2GB of RAM) and set Cache Levels to 1 (normally I have them at 4). I didn't hide my palettes - that may make a difference.


Watching what was going on with the Windows Task Manager shows that Windows starts doing rather odd things with file caching and swap file usage. Initially all stays in RAM, and the VM then RAM usage shoots up to the maximum. When the Shadow / Highlight step is hit, CPU usage drops to next to nothing (up until now, some of the time it's 50% indicating complete use of one of my two processors, often it's 90ish%, indicating both processors are being used) and the RAM usage drops way down.

It's at this point that scratch file usage is up to over 5GB (normally I keep my scratch space on the same SCSI disk as the program, and that disk ran out of space the first time I tried it), and processor usage doesn't recover until a lot of disk I/O has happened. This means that things like my antivirus software are in play, also Windows doesn't necessarily behave that sensibly with regard to memory allocation when both program memory and I/O are both high (Windows often inexplicably pages out program memory in this scenario, whereas UNIX kernels seem to manage better in this sort of scenario, so Mac results may well better Windows).


As I said, I don't regard it as a good benchmark. In real post-processing use, I never have 2.5GB of RAM and 5GB of scratch space in use when working on a single file - indeed, since moving to 3GB of RAM, setting the /3GB flag in boot.ini (without it, no program can use more than 2GB of RAM - you do need to be using Windows XP Professional SP2 for this to work properly) and allowing Photoshop to use up to 2.5GB of my 3GB RAM, I've only rarely seen Efficiency drop below 100%, indicating that Photoshop is working entirely in RAM. The only thing this did show is that I've got my settings right to allow Photoshop to use more than 2GB of RAM!

Applying the 9.0.1 patch does cut down some delays, especially some of the "temporary hangs" I'd grown used to.



David

[badfish]

3:01 on home brew machine.

[Palladium]

Having the CPU on 5 plus hours working in CS2 and Premiere I ran the test twice (both times with only CS2 open - bridge closed)

1st - 3.25
2nd - 3.20

Then I did a cold reboot and redid the test 2 more times (both times with only CS2 open - bridge closed).

1st - 3.45
2nd - 3.28

Homemade box a couple of years old P4 3.2 with 2 gig 3200 DDR on an intel board and XP Pro.

C drive only programs 60 GBs with (35 GBs free)
G 120GB WD 7200 drive mainly used for data storage before burning (25GB free)
Q 160GB WD SATA 7200 drive used for photo/video editing & swap (40GB free)
W 160GB WD SATA 7200 drive used for photo/video editing & swap (55GB free)

CS2 setup up RAM 65% usage and swap drives W, Q, G.

Next time I defrag I'll run the tests again and make some additional room avail on the HD's.

[Palladium]

Having the CPU on 5 plus hours working in CS2 and Premiere I ran the test twice (both times with only CS2 open - bridge closed)

1st - 3.25
2nd - 3.20

Then I did a cold reboot and redid the test 2 more times (both times with only CS2 open - bridge closed).

1st - 3.45
2nd - 3.28

Homemade box a couple of years old P4 3.2 with 2 gig 3200 DDR on an intel board and XP Pro.

C drive only programs 60 GBs with (35 GBs free)
G 120GB WD 7200 drive mainly used for data storage before burning (25GB free)
Q 160GB SATA 7200 drive used for photo/video editing & swap (40GB free)
W 160GB SATA 7200 drive used for photo/video editing & swap (55GB free)

CS2 setup up RAM 65% usage and swap drives W, Q, G.

Next time I defrag I'll run the tests again and make some additional room avail on the HD's.

I'm not sure if this makes a difference but the original file (test image.jpg), I Downloaded to and opened up from "My Documents" on the C Drive. I usually work on opened files from my "W" Drive. Later I do it again from the working off "W" drive. :rolleyes:

Redid the test this time opening the "test image.jpg" from the "W" drive - 3.45

[peatoire]

Although it's far away from a bench test it's a useful tool for ballpark figures.
Much is dependant on RAM. and also how much RAM is available. Apples memory management is meant to free up RAM that is not used by apps that sit in the background but the test I have just done suggests otherwise. My Mac had been on for a day with a few Adobe apps open when I firstly ran it.
2Ghz DP G5 2Gb RAM. Maxtor 160Gb HD (80Gb spare)
Test 1 4mins
Test 2 (after a restart with only PS CS2 open) 2m 15secs.
I would say this is mainly to to with a large portion of the scratch files created being sucked into the RAM.
(Also how many levels of history you allow has a big influence)

[Palladium]

... (Also how many levels of history you allow has a big influence)

Nice Pickup - I just redid the test reducing my levels of history from 6 to 1 and shaved about 1 minute off my time - 2.40. :)

[Dandaman_24]

come on ppl have a go at the test !

Ooohh happy 400th post to me

[Palladium]

any other results...:evil:

[lowmagnet]

Dual G5 2.5 GHz
Dual Maxtor 300GB 7200rpm SATA (mirrored)
2.5GB ram
Radeon X800XT, 256MB

2:22 (not bad for 2 years old hehe)

[sumozebra]

4min 30seconds ish. P4 3.2ghz, 2gig ram
but then again i had a gazillion mozilla tabs up as well.

[Palladium]

Bump for any new machines that POTN'ers have recently bulit ;);););)

[RTMiller]

Commodore 64...
3 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes, and 4 seconds.

[PacAce]

Power Mac G5, 2 GHz DP, 2.5 GB RAM, 160 GB + 300 GB SATA
PS CS using 60% RAM (=1099 MB)

Time with my normal palettes open + history=999: 3:09
TIme with only action palette open + history=999: 2:39
Time with only action palette open + history=1: 1:14

[blackviolet]

g5 2.0 dual core - 6 gb ram 7800gt256mb
stock 160gb SATA latest update to CS2
2:17

17" macbook pro - core duo 2.16 2gb ram - latest CS2 running rosetta
5:02 - can't wait for CS3 universal binary.......

i no longer have a license nor software to run it on my athlon dual core or macbook pro under bootcamp so i can't test it. :(

[PacAce]

Dell Dimension 8100, 1.8 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM
PS CS

Time for best-case scenario: A pathetic 9:09! :confused:

[Mark0159]

3:25 give or take a second

the machine is a custom built Dual Core AMD 3800+, 1GB of ram, 6600GT video card. The HDD is a seagate 300GB with 17mb cache, SATA

I haven't changed any of the settings for photoshop at all since the default settings seem to work for me.

[neo265]

Goes to show how optimised Macs are for PS.

[Joseph Hoetzl]

Dell Dimension 8400
Intel P4 3Ghz
1GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 6800 256MB
XP Pro SP2

8:11:72

Geezz...time for an apple

[blackviolet]

there isn't any point in getting one, now. CS3 will not only support intel Macs natively, it will also be properly optimised as a multi-threaded windows app. then when the intel 'PowerMac' replacements come out, look at both platforms. the Mac will let you run both OS universes.

[PacAce]

there isn't any point in getting one, now. CS3 will not only support intel Macs natively, it will also be properly optimised as a multi-threaded windows app. then when the intel 'PowerMac' replacements come out, look at both platforms. the Mac will let you run both OS universes.
I don't get it. I thought CS3 is supposed to be "Universal", meaning it will run natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based machines. The only difference between the two would be the compiler used to generate the binary executable files. :confused:

[blackviolet]

the universal binary will run on both intel and PPC macs - not on windows boxes. i wouldn't recommend buying a G5 now - sure the PPC version will be great, but as a hardware platform, you would be limiting yourself. getting a Conroe Intel based Mac when they come out makes good sense as you have the ability to run osx, xp, vista, linux, etc.

the current CS2 windows code is not nearly as optimised as it should be to reap the benefit of todays dual core processors. merely making an application multi-threaded doesn't make it optimised. once CS3 is out, hopefully the app will run close to the same on intel based mac and windows boxes on similar hardware. that's what i meant above.

[PacAce]

the universal binary will run on both intel and PPC macs - not on windows boxes. i wouldn't recommend buying a G5 now - sure the PPC version will be great, but as a hardware platform, you would be limiting yourself. getting a Conroe Intel based Mac when they come out makes good sense as you have the ability to run osx, xp, vista, linux, etc.

the current CS2 windows code is not nearly as optimised as it should be to reap the benefit of todays dual core processors. merely making an application multi-threaded doesn't make it optimised. once CS3 is out, hopefully the app will run close to the same on intel based mac and windows boxes on similar hardware. that's what i meant above.
OK, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense than when I read (or should i say "misread") your previous post. :)

[blackviolet]

it was largely my fault staying up to watch the world cup and then posting early in the morning - i haven't had much sleep over the last week or so... :)

[gbrandon]

Okay, I stumbled across this forum by chance after reading some posts in the 2cpu.com forums, but heres my results. Also, please note I know as much about photoshop as the average person knows about quantum physics, so please be patient. I used this test solely for fact that my gf uses photoshop and as I just built this computer for video editing, I figured she could use it for her illustrator and photoshop needs. This test seemed to be a good benchmark for tweaking my system.

Specs: Homebuilt
Supermicro H8DC8 Motherboard
2 -285 Opteron processors (dual core for a total of 4 cores)
8 gigs ram.
1 Maxtor SCSI U320 150 gig drive (O/S and applications)
1 Raid 0 array with 2 WD Raptor 1500's. (300 gig partition) used for scratch disk
Windows XP X64 bit edition, with Photoshop CS2 version 9.0.1

When I first built the system, there was a single raptor for the scratch disk. I ran the test and got 1:45. I then played with the settings in photoshop and changed scratch disk from 1)c 2)d to 1)D 2)C and also moved the memory used to 75% (i think it was around 2 gigs ram to use at 75%) I re-ran the test and got 1:15. Smoking!!

I then read some photoshop forums and it said to check out the efficency. I noticed mine was around 85% but it sometimes dropped to 20%. I also noticed when watching performance under windows task manager that it was using alot of page file, but all 4 processors rarely got above 25% usage (some spikes to 100 for very very short periods of time). I figured ram was the bottleneck. I then bought another western digital drive and created a raid 0 array and re-ran the test. I got :57 seconds. Damn, thats impressive. I wanted a comparison, so I ran the test on a old athlon fx-57 with 2 gig ram and 1 raptor 75 gig and got 2:45.

I then bought 4 more gigs of ram and ran the test and suprisingly, my test results went UP to 1:15. Hmm...I also noticed on the photoshop setting for memory that max ram available to use was still 2786. ?? I thought I read on the adobe forum that photoshop could use 4 gigs of ram. I wonder whats goin on? Anyway, I read this forum and took the advice of some previous posters. I went to preferences, and under the general tab I swicthed history states from 10 to 1, and then closed all the little windows on the right hand side of the main window of photoshop except the test script window. (i hope you understand that last sentence) I then re-ran the test. And guess what....

:34 seconds. WOW!!. I feel thats pretty impressive. But I still want to know why photoshop is limited out for memory at 2786. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks..

Geoff

[CyberDyneSystems]

O-kay, I just had a dismal showing for the system I have, which is very similar to the Dual Opteron listed directly above this post...
(Iv'e got the slower 2.2GHz Opteron 275s and my disk subsystem is NOTHING like Geoff's awesome set up! ) :)

I have a few problems.

1.Wrong version of PSCS?:
I'm running PSCS or PS8 not CS2.. action runs, but I can;'t find any indication what version this test was intended for.

2. PSCS Limited to 2GB RAM?:
This seems to mean that even with PSCS set to use 100% memory, it will only address a little under half? (1.8GB as opposed to the full 4GB available? )

3. CPU's not being used:
On THIS test, PSCS does not seem to want to use all the CPU power available? When I actually use PSCS for editing, I see my CPUs redline all the time, particularly using the same Gaussian blur filter that this speed test uses and seems to bog down the most. In my real world Guassian tests, I fly through them with CPU utilization bumping 100%, .. here it seems to stop dead on this same filter, with CPU barely bumping 14% ??
For the duration of this test the CPU's never seemed to go up above perhaps 65% usage.. and more often was way below 50%
(**EDIT after setting to 1 history state this changes a lot, CPUS are relined often enough, until that last blur filter)

I'm assuming this is hard drive IO related, (**even after the history state revelation I still think this) and indeed, I have yet to install any separate scratch disks for this system, that coupled with the fact that PSCS is ignoring half the installed RAM seems to mean a much more disk intensive action.
I ran it a second time with the history states at 1, and even so, that least Gaussian blur filter, CPUS were down at 0% - 10% for a full 15-20 seconds, memory dropped from 1.8GB down to under 500MB, and the system just seems to hang there, (disk IO was not even flashing, and drives were idle)

Score as of now: 1minute 48 seconds.

So I'm actually already approaching Leo's awesome PowerMac G5, and currently I'm doing this with only a single physical hard drive array (two 400GB drives in RAID1 mirrored)

I think if I could get PSCS to use more ram and get away from the disk IO, and thus let the action take full advantage of the currently Idle CPU time, I would be in much better shape,

[StewartR]

CDS, I'm sure I speak for all POTN members when i say I'm disappointed with that. Surely you can do better?
http://www.bio-itworld.com/images/0302_102160840_R.jpg
http://www.ecmwf.int/services/computing/overview/images/IBM_cluster_front_3_550.jpg

[StealthLude]

hahahahaha

58 seconds =)

Home Brew 2.8 Dual Xeon Server Cluster (x 2 servers) with 1.5 TB Raid 5 Array on a 3Ware Raid Card with 128 MB Drive Casche, 4 Gigs Ram. Using Windows Server OS

PS Scratch Disk are 2 x Raptor 36 gig drives on Raid 0

[StealthLude]

Nice Server Room in the post above, I wish mine looked like that.

I got 2 x Homebrew servers in SuperMicro rack mount cases. Using a Dell 1/2 sized rack with APC power backup and Watchguard VPN Firewall.

Sigh, I dont have lots of L glass b/c i decided to buy hard drives instead. =)

[pturton]

Half hour to download the test files by dialup but repeatable
56 seconds
to run the test.

CS2 9.02
AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2.41 GHz
3 GB Ram
Asus M2N-E Motherboard
3 WD SATA 250 Gig drives
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS video card
20 inch and 19 inch monitors both @ 1600x1200

[CyberDyneSystems]

56 seconds.. nice.

It was more sensible to have the system builder install only the system volume, so I have now placed my order @ Newegg for three more hard drives.

Two 500GB drives for a 1/2 TB mirrored array, for the photos, and a Raptor fro the scratch disk. Didn't wan't to dedicate two whole drives in RAIDzero and the power overhead required just for a scratch disk that would be waaaay too large for what it needs to do, so no RAID ZERO for me. This the Raptor as the fastest single disk solution available without a SCSI controller.

I'm thinking once I have this in place, my disk IO issues will be over :)

[pturton]

56 seconds.. nice.

It was more sensible to have the system builder install only the system volume, so I have now placed my order @ Newegg for three more hard drives.

Two 500GB drives for a 1/2 TB mirrored array, for the photos, and a Raptor fro the scratch disk. Didn't wan't to dedicate two whole drives in RAIDzero and the power overhead required just for a scratch disk that would be waaaay too large for what it needs to do, so no RAID ZERO for me. This the Raptor as the fastest single disk solution available without a SCSI controller.

I'm thinking once I have this in place, my disk IO issues will be over :)

One thing that may be helping my system is the fact that I have only my Internet access, DVD/CDR burning support and photo software installed plus a ffew minor utilities.

I am not using RAID, only for the occasional bug. Going from 2 GB RAM to 3 GB made a noticeable difference. my RAM is only running at 633 MHz, BTW - the 800 MHz RAM was more than I can afford. After using a PIII 700 laptop for 5+ years with WIn Me, this system is a real pleasure accept for the dialup Internet access. Hopefully, someday, I can purchase another video card that doesn't steal 384 MB RAM from my system board.

Your system sounds like it could be a winner once you add your new drives and move up to CS2 or CS3 when available.

Have you tried the /3GB switch in the Boot.ini? Until I added this switch, PS only saw 1.6 GB but now it sees 2.6 GB.

Now I'd better spend the time and learn how to use PS properly.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I have not tried that... some day when I get home from work I will have to give it a go! :lol:

[pturton]

I have not tried that... some day when I get home from work I will have to give it a go! :lol:

Just in case you do not have the syntax handy:


[boot loader]
timeout=12
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /userva=3000 /3GB /noguiboot

[NickSimcheck]

How does the Caches level affect speed? Do I want 1 or 8?

With history on 20 my time was 11 minutes 15 seconds, with history on 1 is shot down to 2 minutes 3 seconds on a Gateway GT5056 with a Athlon X2 3800+ with 1.5GB Ram and some junk HD.

[pturton]

How does the Caches level affect speed? Do I want 1 or 8?

With history on 20 my time was 11 minutes 15 seconds, with history on 1 is shot down to 2 minutes 3 seconds on a Gateway GT5056 with a Athlon X2 3800+ with 1.5GB Ram and some junk HD.

When PS opens an image and you change the view size, PS stores the resized views, in a cache to speed screen updates. The number of Cache levels determines how many sizes are stored.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1910617,00.asp

[Tdragone]

Dell XPS 410 system
Intel Core 2 Duo running 2.4 ghz
2 gigs ram
Adobe cs2
Sata (Windows drive) 320 gig hdd only: 1:23

Same as above but with a scratch disk (Western Digital raptor 10,000 rpm 74 gig SATA): 1:12 seconds!

Man; I love Dell!

[tzphotos.com]

Dell Dimension 8400
Intel P4 3Ghz
1GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 6800 256MB
XP Pro SP2

8:11:72

Geezz...time for an apple

I think your big issue is the lack of RAM. You machine is making big use of the hard drive virtual RAM.

I have 2 GB and was thinking about going to 4 GB, but when I went from 1 GB to 2 GB it made a huge diffence in speed.

[tzphotos.com]

Just in case you do not have the syntax handy:


[boot loader]
timeout=12
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /userva=3000 /3GB /noguiboot

Have any of the people with more than 2 GB tried this switch to see if it makes a diffence?

Reason I ask is that I'm thinking about going from 2 GB to 4 GB.

[Headcase650]

7:25

PS CS
Dell 5150
P4 w/HT 3 GHz
2 GB DDR2 533MHz
160 GB SATA 7200rpm
ATI Radeon X600 SE 256MB

Changing history to 1 dropped my time down to 3:50

I thought my system would be a little faster, just goes to show how much improvment was made with the multiple cores.

[canusa]

bahahahahaa

11:59 done remotely from work using logmein.com
Athlon xp-m 2600+
radeon 9500 pro 128MB
1GB ram
1- 160GB SATA drive
Running cs2 in vista ultimate :P

i'll give it another go once i get home.

[tim]

Home built PC, Gigabyte motherboard, Athlon 3500+, 2GB dual channel 400MHz RAM, XP Pro, 2xSeagate 7200 RPM drives (one IDE one SATA), nVidia 6600GT.

5m49sec

This test is limited by the disk IO speed on my machine, not CPU, which isn't anything like my typical workloads. This could be a useful tool to help optimise my machine for photoshop.

Dropped to 2min 10sec after upgrading to Athlon X2 4800+ dual core - more than twice as fast :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

Finally did a retest,. I'm down to 1:09 :)

Still on PSCS (not 2) but times seem consistent anyway..
Got around the RAM limit by converting some to a virtual drive.. haha more ram!

[wilvoeka]

48 Seconds

CS3

Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz
8 Gbs DDR 800(3.7 for CS3)
Windows Vista 64 Bit

[wlescall]

60 seconds

Photoshop CS3
20" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz
2 GB RAM/500 GB HD
Mac OSX 10.4.8

[simplephoto]

1 minute 30 seconds

Homebuild system
Windows XP
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6ghz
2 gigs ram ddr2 800
Adobe cs2
Sata hdd 250 gig (Samsumg sp2504c)
nVidia geForce 6200 128mb

[Billbo911]

1 Min. 17.4 sec.

Home Brew
WinXP
ASUS M2N-SLI Mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
2GB Corsair DDR2 PC6400
320 GB Seagate 7200 RPM SATA II
Adobe CS2
EVGA nVidia GeForce 7600GT KO 256 MB

[lowcrust]

Tried this on my machine at work;
CPU; Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz (631/Cedar Mill).
Chipset; VIA P4M890 (on a MSI MB)
RAM; Corsair 512MB DDR2 PC4300 (266Mhz) @ 4-4-4-12 timings
GFX; Integrated VIA UniChromeT Pro

Initial test without reboot and Explorer, Wordpad and Firefox running; 6.12 minutes
Test after reboot no programs running; 6.03 minutes

I will do different tests on my 4 machines at home, maybe in some different configs as well.

[chris_m_atl]

1min 14 sec on my laptop. I was rather surprised considering this little machine cost me less than $800!

Acer Aspire 5580 6432
Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz X 2, 667MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache
Intel Media Accelerator 950
240GB HDD(D) (120GB external USB2)
2GB DDR2 RAM
PS CS3 Extended

I did not reboot the system prior to doing the test, and there were a number of other programs running in the background. I probably could have done faster had I stopped all the background processes...

[grinchy]

32 Seconds

here is my rig:

Mountain Mods U2 UFO - Black
750W Thermaltake Modular PSU
DFI 680i LT Motherboard
E6850 L718A190 @ 4Ghz
2048 MB Corsair XMS 6400C4 DDR2 800
768 MB EVGA 8800GTX
2 X 150Gig WD RAPTORS (Raid-0)
1 X SpinPoint P Series SP2504C 250GB
16 X Lite-On DVD Burner
16 X NEC DVD Burner
1 120mm Yate Loon LED Intake Fan
1 120MM Yate Loon Exhaust Fan
24" Gateway FPD2485W

Watercooling Rig: Loop#1
Radiator: ThermoChill PA 120.2 with 2 X 120mm Yate Loons | Pump: Laing DDC w/ Petra's DDCT-01 Top | CPU: D-Tek Fuzion[/size]

Watercooling Rig: Loop#2
Radiator: ThermoChill PA 120.3 with 3 X 120mm Yate Loons | Pump: Laing DDC w/ Petra's DDCT-01 Top | GPU: EK Fullcover Waterblock | NB: Swiftech MCW30|SB: Swiftech MCW30


here are some pics of my rig:
http://www.pbase.com/grinchy247/sigma_17-70&page=6

from page 6 and up...

[lowcrust]

That be one insane rig Grincy!

[grinchy]

thanks man...*-)

[Tsmith]

Cool test - I need to jack up the FSB to 1333 Mhz and run again, that was stock.

58 seconds

Intel E6700 Core 2 Duo - stock
2 GB Corsair XMS 6400 RAM
MSI P6N SLI Platinum mobo
Evga 8800 GTS 640MB OC GFX
Coarsair HX 520 PSU
SilentX + Zalman air cooling

I'll add: I'm usng WD Raptor 10,000 rpm drives for Application and Scratch Disk

[coleygm]

You'd think that Readyboost enabled on a 1GB flash drive would help...but with that drive plugged in and enabled, it slowed my score by 10 seconds! After disabling readyboost, unplugging the drive, and rebooting to re-perform the test...10 seconds faster.

1:23 - PhotoShop CS3

Dell XPS 410
Windows Vista Ultimate (32bit)
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800 MHz - 4 DIMMs
Intel Core 2 Q6600 Quad-core (8mb L2 cache, 2.4 GHz, 1066FSB)
768MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTX
750GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s HD (7200rpm) w/ DataBurst Cache

[Bobster]

Core2Duo E6600 clocked to 3.12Ghz (on stock fan) 2GB DDR2 4300 RAM - RAID0 setup (scratch on 2nd fastest place on HDD 10GB)
XP SP2 - running litestep - Photoshop CS3

using the photoshop test setup as in the readme 61.3 seconds

using my photshop settings 54.8 seconds

[lowcrust]

using the photoshop test setup as in the readme 61.3 seconds

using my photshop settings 54.8 seconds

Please elaborate.

[Bobster]

the readme states 100% RAM to PS ,1 History State and a Cache of 4

i use 65% RAM, 10 History States and a Cache of 8..

[canonphotog]

Glad someone bumped this thread. I've been looking for a way to compare 2gb ddr ram vs 3gb ddr ram as I take about a 50% memory bandwidth hit when running 3gb of DDR ram.

1 minute, 48 seconds, CS2

Asus A8V motherboard
Athlon 64 4000+
3GB DDR PC3200 running at 200mhz (bandwidth hit)
XP Pro on two 36gb raptors striped.
160GB Maxtor 7200 rpm, dedicated scratch disk
ATI 9600

Speed was the same whether or not all processes were stopped first.

Will check again after removing 1gb of the ram to speed up the bandwidth as what I really want to know is whether or not I should be running 2gb or 3gb on this system for best photoshop performance.

[lowcrust]

Are you running the 32 or 64bit version of XP?

I'll post benchmarks over this weekend with a few different combos of CPU/memory.

[canonphotog]

32 bit version

[canonphotog]

After pulling dropping back to 2gb from 3gb so I could boost my memory bandwidth the action completes in 1 minute 36 seconds. So it shaves off 12 seconds.

I don't think that's a big enough difference to warrant leaving 1gb out of the system.

[lowcrust]

Tried this on my machine at work;
CPU; Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz (631/Cedar Mill).
Chipset; VIA P4M890 (on a MSI MB)
RAM; Corsair 512MB DDR2 PC4300 (266Mhz) @ 4-4-4-12 timings
GFX; Integrated VIA UniChromeT Pro

Initial test without reboot and Explorer, Wordpad and Firefox running; 6.12 minutes
Test after reboot no programs running; 6.03 minutes

I will do different tests on my 4 machines at home, maybe in some different configs as well.

OK same system but 2GB of memory (same timings) but FSB overclocked to 216 (3.24 Ghz effective), no reboot; 3:30.

My machines at home will have to wait, havn't had time to do these test on non-paid time yet... =)

[Nisei]

Mainboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i chipset
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz
RAM: OCZ Platinum PC6400 2x2GB
Hard Disks: 2x Samsung Spinpoint T 7200rpm 320GB
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64

All CS3 Photoshop settings as described in readme file

24 seconds

[Swift]

I'm not sure if I did this right...Took me 7 seconds.

http://i24.tinypic.com/263zyqc.jpg

[umbra]

46.5 seconds

15.4" MacBook Pro 2.4ghz C2D
4GB Ram
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT 256mb
200gb Hard Drive

[Nisei]

I'm not sure if I did this right...Took me 7 seconds.
Seems unlikely to me for that system :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

SkyNet just had a RAM infusion up to 8GB

Running XP 64, but of course PSCS will only use a small franction of that avaible RAM.

So I installed a good solid RAM Disk program and allocated 3.5GB of that system RAM as drive letter "R"

I told PSCS to use "R" as first scratch disk, thus running a nice 3.5GB loophole around Adobe's continuing RAM silliness,.

My score went down to 42 seconds..
That's shaving more than 1 minuter off of the same set up using hard drives as scratch disk.

So anyone saying PSCS does not need more RAM is full of c@rp! :lol:

[wlescall]

Using CS3 on 20" iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16 GHz running Leopard OS X with 3 GB RAM:

55 sec.

Gained 5 seconds with an additional 1 GB RAM & Leopard.

[ashdavid]

The system,

7.6 teraflops Linux cluster of Dual Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
4.6TB of aggregate memory.
115.2TB of aggregate local disk space.
1,154 total nodes plus separate hot spare clusters and development clusters.
2,304 Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
Sub 1U Evolocity node for 1,116 compute nodes.
LinuxBIOS on all nodes.
Linux Networx ICE Box Management Appliance.
Blue Arc Si7500 Storage Systems with a combined storage capacity of 115TB.
Cluster File Systems' Lustre Open Source cluster wide file system.

With this I got my time down to 0.023 seconds. It is not the fastest system, but it is ok for me.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Wow :shock: I could have used that system back in my Genome/Seti days... ! :lol:

[tim]

With this I got my time down to 0.023 seconds. It is not the fastest system, but it is ok for me.

It would be interesting to see how quick it really was on that system...

[Notamage]

Photoshop 7 (yes... I know, hahaha. I'm waiting for CS3 using my friend's student discount =D Since it's just a hobby, it's not my main bank account drainer)

Computer: Self-Built

Processor Speed: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 (rated speed)

RAM: 2gb (1gbx2) DDR2 Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500

HD Details: WD Raptor 150gb (60/90 partition)

Scratch Disk: WD Raptor 150gb (on the 90gb partition)

PS Ver.: PS7... hahaha

History States: 1

Time Taken: 2:10 seconds

I wonder if CS3 will take advantage of all the cores.... hehe. I'll also reboot for the test once I get CS3... this thing has been on for about 13 days now (no restarts 3 days after its 'birth')

Full Spec:
Abit IP-35 Pro Motherboard
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz standard clock speeds
Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 1gbx2 DDR2 @ 4-4-4-12 2.2V (rated speed)
WD Raptor 150gb partitioned into 60gb main/90gb sub
ATI x1950 Pro (ATI-Retail)
2 Plextor DVD-R (1 EIDE, 1 SATA)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit :)

Great machine for $1500. Great for work and play. :lol:

[ashdavid]

It would be interesting to see how quick it really was on that system...
I am betting that it actualy does the test before you click on run!:lol: Seriously, I think the limiting factor would be photoshop.

@CDS, it will only take up a little bit of room in your basement.:lol:

[John Hudson]

1st run of this came in at 5:34. Surprisingly slow, but the machine had been on all day, had other apps open and I'd been editing in photoshop.

So I rebooted and reduced the history states from 50 to 1, closed all other background apps and ran it again. The result was 53 seconds.

A recent self build system.
Intel Q6600 (the new low power one)
4GB DDR2 800mhz memory
Single 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk
Nvidia 8800GTC graphics card.
Photoshop CS3

[Notamage]

A recent self build system.
Intel Q6600 (the new low power one)
4GB DDR2 800mhz memory
Single 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk
Nvidia 8800GTC graphics card.
Photoshop CS3

The new low power one (G0 step) is the preferred one. It's good if you ever have to overclock it :p I guess I don't have to test my system w/ CS3 then. It should be about the same as yours.

[rodal126]

Time: 4m19s

Mac Mini
1.66GHz Intel Core Duo
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
OS X v 10.4.11
Photoshop CS3

I think the time could be slightly better if I restarted the Mac.

[CyberDyneSystems]

1st run of this came in at 5:34. Surprisingly slow, but the machine had been on all day, had other apps open and I'd been editing in photoshop.

So I rebooted and reduced the history states from 50 to 1, closed all other background apps and ran it again. The result was 53 seconds.

A recent self build system.
Intel Q6600 (the new low power one)
4GB DDR2 800mhz memory
Single 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk
Nvidia 8800GTC graphics card.
Photoshop CS3

This one illustrates how much impact to many open apps and startups can have on your editing.. wow.

[tim]

This one illustrates how much impact to many open apps and startups can have on your editing.. wow.

I suspect history states is the most important factor in the change.

[Mark0159]

3:25 give or take a second

the machine is a custom built Dual Core AMD 3800+, 1GB of ram, 6600GT video card. The HDD is a seagate 300GB with 17mb cache, SATA

I haven't changed any of the settings for photoshop at all since the default settings seem to work for me.

I have just ran the same test on the same machine as my original post. the only thing that has changed is the machine is now running 2gb of ram and I am running vista. All the settings for PSCS3 are the defaults.

This time I got the result of 3:30

hmmmm not much of a change.

[S.E.V.]

Damn!!! Well i finally figured out how to run the test and i did it.

Spec on the machine

Built PC
AMD X2 +4800 stock clock
4 gigs corsair ddr ram
Evga 8800GTX stock clock
Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe Motherboard
4x320gig seagate drive no raid setup

gpu and cpu watercooled

Time: 2minutes flat.

Not to shabby i'd say. I am happy

[EOS MAN1]

Wow Mine only 57 seconds.

Thats right
0:57sec
New 2.2ghz MacBook Pro
2Gigs ram
120 gig 5400 rpm Hard drive

[S.E.V.]

Wow Mine only 57 seconds.

Thats right
0:57sec
New 2.2ghz MacBook Pro
2Gigs ram
120 gig 5400 rpm Hard drive

nice, now here is a cookie for your achievements :p

Thats, um, how do you say, FAST!

[wookie6262]

Home Built PC
Vista 64 Bit
Q6600 Overclocked to 3ghz
4GB Geil PC6400 4-4-4-12
2x500GB Samsung drives in Raid 0
CS3

I did the test a few times and the average was 22 seconds. There were a few 21 seconds. I had antivurus etc running in the background too. This is the first PC I have ever built or overclocked. I just finished it last night and hopefully this is a sign that it will work out well.

[Bobster]

new CPU (E6750 OC'd to 3.2) and 8GB RAM and Vista 64 -

running FF + Winamp - just 24.6 Seconds :D

might get a little faster with a fresh re-boot

[Zepher]

Note the times of my 2 machines:
7:27 P4 3.4ghz, 2gigs of Ram, CS3 Extended (uptime of 6.5 days and I didn't want to reboot)
4:58 P4 2.6ghz, 2gigs of Ram, CS3 Extended (fresh reboot since I had just installed CS3 to perform this test)

the slower one is faster due to the amount of un-fragmented hard drive space.
I have almost 3 Tera bytes of storage over 9 drives in my main machine with about 100gigs free while the other machine has a 160gig drive with 111gigs free and nothing installed on it.

[Gix]

Just built it today, on the computer desk.
Vista 64 Bit
Q6600 stock @ 2.4 GHZ
4GB Gskill PC6400
2x80GB seagate drives in Raid 0
CS3

Average was around 30 secs

[constrict]

Intel Core Duo E6850 @ 3ghz
4GB Corsair Dominator 8500 @ 1050mhz
Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard
Western Digital Raptor 150
Windows Vista x64
CS3

...30 Seconds.

My previous P4 machine took about 6 or 7 minutes, lol.

[tim]

new CPU (E6750 OC'd to 3.2) and 8GB RAM and Vista 64 -

running FF + Winamp - just 24.6 Seconds :D

might get a little faster with a fresh re-boot

That's almost 12 times faster than my PC - insane!! And my PC works fine! It's only batch jobs I wish were faster - I batched about 30GB of CR2 to DNG tonight, in the background, it made the PC a little jumpy but did it quickly enough.

[lawmans3]

I was thinking of upgrading my system but I guess I'm not too far off of some new systems (mine is 3 yrs old).

51 seconds

Dell 670 workstation
dual 3.4 Xeon processors (singles, not dual cores)
4 gb ram
7200 rpm scratch drive
CS3 / XP Pro

[pchaffin]

Dell Dimension 9200
Core2Quad X6600
2 gb ram
7200 rpm hard drive w/ databurst
CS2 / Vista Home Basic

1m 34s

[Tsmith]

Having more RAM helps out a bunch on this test. Of course older processors won't benefit as much as the newer ones.

[Bollan]

Dell Precision T3400
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHZ
4GB RAM (3.00GB Showing)
NVidia Cuadro FX1700 512MB
7200 rpm hard drive w/ databurst

WIN XP 32 SP2

No special tweaks just as it is really.

CS2: 52 seconds
CS3: 45 seconds

Im curious if i can make any improvements to this?

[CyberDyneSystems]

I am interested in the improvement you got in CS3 vs. CS2 as I am still running this under PSCS 1.. (won't upgrade until I get my 64bit app)

It means that I am not on an even playing field, and maybe I would do well to upgrade ahead of schedule ?

[RinkRat]

Thought I'd give it a try:
CS2
P4 2.8
1.5GB Ram
RADEON 9200SE (256MB) card
160GB SATA 1 drive for OS/App
300GB SATA 1 drive for Scratch
300GB SATA 1 drive for images/Paging file (Raid 0)

First run: 10:00
-No restart, did not change history or cache.

2nd run: 2:55
-No restart, closed apps running in tray.

I'm certain it will be better if I actually restarted, and didn't run the test from an RDP session on my laptop. :)

[DocFrankenstein]

Useless test for me.

I work with 6 mp files and 3-4 layers max.

By leaving photoshop by default: 3:45

4400+ athlon dual core
2gb ddr2
only one 250 gig sata seagate barracuda
radeon 1650SE
And vista

[Bollan]

I am interested in the improvement you got in CS3 vs. CS2 as I am still running this under PSCS 1.. (won't upgrade until I get my 64bit app)

It means that I am not on an even playing field, and maybe I would do well to upgrade ahead of schedule ?

I was also surprised to see that. It was the last part of the action (gaussian blur) that went faster in CS3. Though i know i still could squeeze out a better result if i shut down some more running processes.

Main problem is in WinXP 32 that it doesnt recognize more than 3GB RAM that leaves me with 1GB unused which is rather ridicolous.

[lawmans3]

Here are a couple more Photoshop tests if anyone is interested in giving their computers a workout.

http://creativebits.org/how_fast_is_your_machine_photoshop_required

[pchaffin]

So I've been trying to optomize my system, and decided to go back to Windows XP 64bit. I re-ran the test after the fresh install of the OS. Interesting to compare these results to my prior results under Vista Home Basic (see below.)

Core2Quad X6600
2gb RAM
7200 rpm hard drive
CS2 / XP 64bit:

0min 29sec!


As an aside, prior to installing XP64, I tried out Vista Ultimate 32 bit and got 1min 14sec under a fresh install.

Dell Dimension 9200
Core2Quad X6600
2 gb ram
7200 rpm hard drive w/ databurst
CS2 / Vista Home Basic

1m 34s

[lawmans3]

What program are you using for your ram disk? I've been looking at them and need advice.:D I tried ramdisk but I couldn't get it to work, so I don't know if it was me or my x64 XP.




SkyNet just had a RAM infusion up to 8GB

Running XP 64, but of course PSCS will only use a small franction of that avaible RAM.

So I installed a good solid RAM Disk program and allocated 3.5GB of that system RAM as drive letter "R"

I told PSCS to use "R" as first scratch disk, thus running a nice 3.5GB loophole around Adobe's continuing RAM silliness,.

My score went down to 42 seconds..
That's shaving more than 1 minuter off of the same set up using hard drives as scratch disk.

So anyone saying PSCS does not need more RAM is full of c@rp! :lol:

[lawmans3]

I got a new computer so I figured I would run it through its paces and here are my results:

Dell workstation 690, Intel quad 2.66 (X5345) x2, 8 GB Ram, XP Pro 64


This thread test: 23 seconds

Fred Miranda test: 2.8 seconds

Retouchpro Test: 8-bit 5.9 seconds and 16-bit 7.7 seconds :D

[JS4KIKZ]

i'll give this a shot
Photoshop CS3
home built computer
AMD 64x2 Dual core 4200
4gig ram
10,000 rpm HD
vid card: 8800GT

1 minute, 11 seconds

I did have a couple of programs running and I didn't reboot like the "help me" file said to

[orisky]

PC from parts
Intel E6400 Core2duo 2.13
3gb of ram
Maxtor 250gb 7200 rpm drive used as boot
WD 1tb 7200rpm drive used as scratch
CS3
Win XP Pro (32bit)

overclocked to 2.9ghz, 56s
oc to 3.2ghz, 45s
oc to 3.2, ran the test a second time (without rebooting) 38secs
Apparently it makes a difference. I wonder which scores people are using.

*edit*
So I read page 3 of this thread and saw this little gem to modify the boot.ini. Photoshop sees about 2.4gb of ram instead of 1.7.
Now on a OC 3.2ghz first run, I'm getting 32s (down from 45).
dropped back to OC 2.9ghz, still getting 32s

I also tested my laptop:
Dell D620
Core2duo 1.83ghz
4gb ram

without the boot.ini edit, I was getting 1:45
with the boot.ini edit, 1:05

So with memory being such an important factor, it makes sense that those running 64bit OS's and 8gb of ram are leaving the rest of us in the dust.

[gaza]

36 sec

dual quad core xeon 2.13 Ghz, 4Gb ram WinXP x64

[gaza]

I got a new computer so I figured I would run it through its paces and here are my results:

Dell workstation 690, Intel quad 2.66 (X5345) x2, 8 GB Ram, XP Pro 64


This thread test: 23 seconds

Fred Miranda test: 2.8 seconds

Retouchpro Test: 8-bit 5.9 seconds and 16-bit 7.7 seconds :D

Interesting to see your result. I had been thinking of replacing the E5330s with X5355s so it's nice to see what affect they are likely to have. It's just the cost of the cpus is a bit daunting!

Gary

[Mint_Sauce]

2:34 (EDIT: Redid test with correct settings, now 20 seconds).

Self built:
Quad Core Q6600 G0 (overclocked to 3.2Ghz)
8gb OCZ Ram
5x500gb Raid 5 (onboard controller)
8800GTX 768mb
CS3
Vista X64

[krusnof]

56 sec. EDIT = In CS3

MacBook Pro, 2.2 GHz (Core 2 Duo), 4 GB RAM, 120GB HD (5400RPM).
I guess the RAM gives a LOT of power!

My little brother just bought the 2x2.8Quad, 2GB RAM, 320GB HD (7200RPM). That gave him 30 sec. He is now buying additional 2 GB RAM, can you say FAST?!?
I will properly post his result when he gets the RAM.

I envy him!

[constrict]

2:34

Quad Core Q6600 G0 (overclocked to 3.2Ghz)
8gb OCZ Ram
5x500gb Raid 5 (onboard controller)
8800GTX 768mb
CS3
Vista X64

hmmm, 2:34 with those specs? somethings up.

[Dan-o]

Yea should be closer to 2.34 seconds then 2 minutes 34 seconds.

[Tsmith]

Yea should be closer to 2.34 seconds then 2 minutes 34 seconds.

Most likely didn't lower the History & Cache to 1-4

------------------------------------------------------------

Well I finally got around to installing 4 gigs of RAM in my WinXP 32-bit setup and lowered my time down to 39 seconds with AVG & ZoneAlarm both running in the background. Thats a pretty good increase from my initial run of 58 seconds.

[Dan-o]

The other Q66 machines have been sub 30 second range. My 2+ year old Pentium D machine is 1:20 with history 1 cache 4. 1:45 with history 20 and cache 6

[Bobster]

That's almost 12 times faster than my PC - insane!! And my PC works fine! It's only batch jobs I wish were faster - I batched about 30GB of CR2 to DNG tonight, in the background, it made the PC a little jumpy but did it quickly enough.

heh, but i do alot more with my machine than just Photoshop, 3D rendering and animation, needs all the power i can muster ;)

[CyberDyneSystems]

What program are you using for your ram disk? I've been looking at them and need advice.:D I tried ramdisk but I couldn't get it to work, so I don't know if it was me or my x64 XP.

Super Speed Ram Disk 64
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php

[lawmans3]

Super Speed Ram Disk 64
http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php


Thanks! I got it working and it helps! A nice work around the ram limitations with 32 bit apps.

[Steve Beck]

Mine will be coming up soon.

[Steve Beck]

Finally got around to testing it. Everything was stock, I made the pref changes listed in the read me. I did not make a ram disk yet or anything. This is running on a WD Green 1TB drive that varies speed between 5400 to 7200 rpm for power saving.

My time was 19.7 seconds on the first run and 18.8 seconds on the second run. Did these back to back.

[Dan-o]

What are your comp. specs. Steve.

[CyberDyneSystems]

What are your comp. specs. Steve.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=445153

19 seconds! Sweet!

[Dan-o]

Ahh very nice.

[h46it]

Just ran the test ended up with 30.1 on a e6400 OC'd to 3.16ghz.

[Mint_Sauce]

Most likely didn't lower the History & Cache to 1-4.

Yup, just redid the test and it chomped through in 20 seconds which is a slight improvement! :oops:

[Steve Beck]

I created a 12gb ram disk tonight and tweaked a few things. Re-ran the test and got a 16.2 second pass. I have a few more tweaks to try out and test tomorrow. I am trying to get it to 15 and I will be happy.

[Tsmith]

What are your comp. specs. Steve.

I created a 12gb ram disk tonight and tweaked a few things. Re-ran the test and got a 16.2 second pass. I have a few more tweaks to try out and test tomorrow. I am trying to get it to 15 and I will be happy.


That was directed at you as I'd be curious to know too since my E6700 pushing 3.33 GHz + 4 GB XMS Corsair RAM with Raptor HD's can best achieve 39 seconds with AVG & ZoneAlarm running.

never mind I discovered it and thats a nice setup: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=4811090&postcount=1

[Bob_A]

Dell Inspiron 9100 with 1GB RAM 3 GHz P4 with HT ... 10 minutes 40 seconds :)

[orisky]

Just ran the test ended up with 30.1 on a e6400 OC'd to 3.16ghz.

Sounds about right. My OC'd E6400 at 2.9 runs 32s. How much ram are you running and did you use the /3gb flag?

[rammy]

1 min 12 secs - CS3 - WinXP

Self built:
Asus P5B Deluxe MoBo
Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
4GB RAM
1 x WD Raptor drive (primary)
1 x 160GB Seagate Barracuda
2 x 320GB Seagate Barracude
Scratch files and windows page file spread across the Barracuda's.

[rammy]

39 seconds using the /3GB flag!

[cosworth]

XPS m1710. 4gb RAM and 2gb speedboost with Vista 32 ultimate.

57 seconds. After reboot, 67 seconds.

[Moppie]

My time was 19.7 seconds on the first run and 18.8 seconds on the second run. Did these back to back.


Damn!

I'm about to try mine, be interesting to see if having only 1 quad core makes it twice as slow, with extra time added for less hz and less ram.
52sec is my estimate.




EDIT:

Ok, I think I need to give my PC a little more credit :)


45sec. :cool:

Intel Q6600 (4 x 2.4ghz)
4gb 800mh Ram
Intel DP35 m/b
Vista 32bit, PS CS3
Western Digital SATA2 320gb drive as primary cache, 2 x 500gb SATA2 Seagate barracudas as 2nd and 3rd caches.
Nvidia 8800GT graphics card (512mb, so it sucks up usable ram, but the g/f likes her games).

[Moppie]

I thought I would grab quotes of all the following posts.

They all have 1 thing in common, 4 cores, most of them are Intel Q6600 with a couple of exceptions.
Some are running 32bit OS, and some are running 64bit.

There is a very real, and noticeable difference between the 32bit and 64 bit systems.
The 64bit systems are consistently, almost twice as fast as the 32bit systems, and the Windoz 64bit systems, with 8gb of ram, are on a similar speed level to Steve's new Mac pro.

Just thought it would be interesting to compile it all into 1 post :)
(oh and wild card thrown in just for a laugh).




Mainboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i chipset
Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz
RAM: OCZ Platinum PC6400 2x2GB
Hard Disks: 2x Samsung Spinpoint T 7200rpm 320GB
Video Card: GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate x64

All CS3 Photoshop settings as described in readme file

24 seconds

SkyNet just had a RAM infusion up to 8GB

Running XP 64, but of course PSCS will only use a small franction of that avaible RAM.

So I installed a good solid RAM Disk program and allocated 3.5GB of that system RAM as drive letter "R"

I told PSCS to use "R" as first scratch disk, thus running a nice 3.5GB loophole around Adobe's continuing RAM silliness,.

My score went down to 42 seconds..
That's shaving more than 1 minuter off of the same set up using hard drives as scratch disk.

So anyone saying PSCS does not need more RAM is full of c@rp! :lol:

The system,

7.6 teraflops Linux cluster of Dual Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
4.6TB of aggregate memory.
115.2TB of aggregate local disk space.
1,154 total nodes plus separate hot spare clusters and development clusters.
2,304 Intel 2.4GHz Xeon processors.
Sub 1U Evolocity node for 1,116 compute nodes.
LinuxBIOS on all nodes.
Linux Networx ICE Box Management Appliance.
Blue Arc Si7500 Storage Systems with a combined storage capacity of 115TB.
Cluster File Systems' Lustre Open Source cluster wide file system.

With this I got my time down to 0.023 seconds. It is not the fastest system, but it is ok for me.

Photoshop 7 (yes... I know, hahaha. I'm waiting for CS3 using my friend's student discount =D Since it's just a hobby, it's not my main bank account drainer)

Computer: Self-Built

Processor Speed: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 (rated speed)

RAM: 2gb (1gbx2) DDR2 Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500

HD Details: WD Raptor 150gb (60/90 partition)

Scratch Disk: WD Raptor 150gb (on the 90gb partition)

PS Ver.: PS7... hahaha

History States: 1

Time Taken: 2:10 seconds

I wonder if CS3 will take advantage of all the cores.... hehe. I'll also reboot for the test once I get CS3... this thing has been on for about 13 days now (no restarts 3 days after its 'birth')

Full Spec:
Abit IP-35 Pro Motherboard
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz standard clock speeds
Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 1gbx2 DDR2 @ 4-4-4-12 2.2V (rated speed)
WD Raptor 150gb partitioned into 60gb main/90gb sub
ATI x1950 Pro (ATI-Retail)
2 Plextor DVD-R (1 EIDE, 1 SATA)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit :)

Great machine for $1500. Great for work and play. :lol:

1st run of this came in at 5:34. Surprisingly slow, but the machine had been on all day, had other apps open and I'd been editing in photoshop.

So I rebooted and reduced the history states from 50 to 1, closed all other background apps and ran it again. The result was 53 seconds.

A recent self build system.
Intel Q6600 (the new low power one)
4GB DDR2 800mhz memory
Single 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk
Nvidia 8800GTC graphics card.
Photoshop CS3

Home Built PC
Vista 64 Bit
Q6600 Overclocked to 3ghz
4GB Geil PC6400 4-4-4-12
2x500GB Samsung drives in Raid 0
CS3

I did the test a few times and the average was 22 seconds. There were a few 21 seconds. I had antivurus etc running in the background too. This is the first PC I have ever built or overclocked. I just finished it last night and hopefully this is a sign that it will work out well.

Just built it today, on the computer desk.
Vista 64 Bit
Q6600 stock @ 2.4 GHZ
4GB Gskill PC6400
2x80GB seagate drives in Raid 0
CS3

Average was around 30 secs

Dell Dimension 9200
Core2Quad X6600
2 gb ram
7200 rpm hard drive w/ databurst
CS2 / Vista Home Basic

1m 34s

So I've been trying to optomize my system, and decided to go back to Windows XP 64bit. I re-ran the test after the fresh install of the OS. Interesting to compare these results to my prior results under Vista Home Basic (see below.)

Core2Quad X6600
2gb RAM
7200 rpm hard drive
CS2 / XP 64bit:

0min 29sec!


As an aside, prior to installing XP64, I tried out Vista Ultimate 32 bit and got 1min 14sec under a fresh install.

I got a new computer so I figured I would run it through its paces and here are my results:

Dell workstation 690, Intel quad 2.66 (X5345) x2, 8 GB Ram, XP Pro 64


This thread test: 23 seconds

Fred Miranda test: 2.8 seconds

Retouchpro Test: 8-bit 5.9 seconds and 16-bit 7.7 seconds :D

2:34 (EDIT: Redid test with correct settings, now 20 seconds).

Self built:
Quad Core Q6600 G0 (overclocked to 3.2Ghz)
8gb OCZ Ram
5x500gb Raid 5 (onboard controller)
8800GTX 768mb
CS3
Vista X64




45sec. :cool:

Intel Q6600 (4 x 2.4ghz)
4gb 800mh Ram
Intel DP35 m/b
Vista 32bit, PS CS3
Western Digital SATA2 320gb drive as primary cache, 2 x 500gb SATA2 Seagate barracudas as 2nd and 3rd caches.
Nvidia 8800GT graphics card (512mb, so it sucks up usable ram, but the g/f likes her games).

[cosworth]

Yes, after pouring over this I plan on slowly building up my 64 bit OS install (swappable SATA drives) then making the jump.

pst file, reinstall everything, move files. It's never "fun". But the performance increase I'll see will be measure first by installing CS3 on the 64bit drive and running this test.

[david888lee]

wow those times are fast haha.

here are my results, after keeping my computer on for 4 days straight. lol. i probably should have closed some of my programs that load when i reboot like avg and zonealarm

7 min 50 sec!! HOLY CRAP :[

Win Xp/ cs2
AMD 3500
2gb ram
nvidia 256mb 7600gt
300gb seagate 5400rpm i think

[Moppie]

Yes, after pouring over this I plan on slowly building up my 64 bit OS install (swappable SATA drives) then making the jump.

pst file, reinstall everything, move files. It's never "fun". But the performance increase I'll see will be measure first by installing CS3 on the 64bit drive and running this test.


Please post the results when you do.

There are only a couple of 32 to 64bit comparisons done on the same machine, and as CDS's test shows, the potential for improvment is huge!
I'm tempted to get a 64bit OS, just to see what happens to my machine.

[Steve Beck]

I can't seem to get under 16 seconds... :( I might try loading everything on to a raptor just to see if it is any better. But I really am happy, so maybe i should leave well enough alone...

[cosworth]

Oh boo hoo






:)

[Moppie]

I can't seem to get under 16 seconds... :( I might try loading everything on to a raptor just to see if it is any better. But I really am happy, so maybe i should leave well enough alone...


5 times the cost, and only 3 times as fast :lol::lol:

Must crunch through your video editing pretty fast too :cool:

[cosworth]

Please post the results when you do.


I'm packing tonight for the NYC meet, so I'll see if I have some time to swap out the 64bit drive and give 'er a go.

[Tdragone]

Hate to do this.. But for those of you who don't like your current times.. Check out this deal from tigerdirect:

http://dealnews.com/Intel-Core-2-Quad-2-4-GHz-LGA-775-Processor-motherboard-4-GB-RAM-for-400-after-rebate-22-s-h/212240.html

[GDHugh]

O.K. I did not read every page so I can't say for sure but, I think I have you all beat... for the LONGEST time.
XP home edition
Intel 4 2.53ghz
1.00gb RAM
120gb seagate HDD
40gb western digital scratch disc

With all systems running.... 11min 36sec
With all systems shut down...9min 50sec

I tryed to explain the problem to the wife but she just don't get it. ;-)

[producerism]

some odd results using Leopard and Vista on the same computer... but not exactly fair, pay attention to the details regarding scratch disk:

computer stats:
q6600 quad core @ 2.4
2GB RAM

Vista 32 bit on 500gb 7200rpm sata
scratch = separate 500gb 7200rpm sata
results: 1:08, 1:01 (2 tests, first upon boot, second right after the first test had run)

*plus, after running the test, my video card/driver/something freaked out and was acting weird until I closed photoshop. also, loading the action was a bit more of a hassle... hah, but whatever

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Leopard 10.5.1 (osx86 mod) 250gb 7200rpm sata
no scratch (runs on same drive as photoshop)
results: 0:47, 0:47 (2 tests, first upon boot, second right after the first test had run)

strange.. this is technically a "hacked" version of Leopard, yet it runs faster on my computer - but this could be for a few reasons.

a) leopard HD is half the size, which could make it faster
a.a) but what about no scratch disk? hmmm
b) I believe Leopard is 64bit native (?)