Benchmark Photoshop Speed Test, V3 for really fast computers!

139.5 On a fresh build/upgrade

Asus P8Z68V Pro
Core i7 2600K at stock 3.4 GHz
16 Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600 running in XMP
OCZ Vertex 3 120 Gb SSD
Asus GTX 560 (fermi) 1 Gb DDR5
PS CS5
Windows 7 Premium

Still waiting for GPU support so my GTX 560 ti can take it away... Getting around 300 like everyone else.

138.8 seconds is this the fastest yet?

Asus P8Z68-V/Gen 3
Intel 2500K @ 4.3Ghz w/ Cooler master hyper 212+
8GB Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600
Crucial M4 64GB SSD drive
(2) Seagate 500gb 7200 in raid 0 for data drive
NO video card yet....

I should put this chip back to 4.6ghz @ 1.38v to see what I can do but I like my 4.3 @ 1.28v best.

I managed 131.5 seconds on my new build.

Intel 2600K @ 4.6Ghz
Gigabyte UD3H-B3
16GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Kingston 128 GB Hyper-x SSD
2x WD RE3 1TB raid 0 for data
OCZ 64 GB Agility SSD for scratch
XFX 6870 vga
Mac OS X 10.7

digitaljay wrote in post #13710349
I managed 131.5 seconds on my new build.

Intel 2600K @ 4.6Ghz
Gigabyte UD3H-B3
16GB Kingston DDR3 1600
Kingston 128 GB Hyper-x SSD
2x WD RE3 1TB raid 0 for data
OCZ 64 GB Agility SSD for scratch
XFX 6870 vga
Mac OS X 10.7

I'm glad I saved money. The extra money I would've spent just didn't justify it for me considering the bang for the buck of mine. Thanks for the post.

Intel i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 4 Cores
16GB RAM DDR3 1600
2x1GB Graphics card (not that this matters to the test)
Windows 7 Home Premium
PS CS5x64

161.9 seconds

I allotted all available RAM to PS (13.9GB) and used a 1.5TB hard drive as the scratch drive. I set the history states to 1 and the cache to 8. I am confused by the following though. I had the task manager resource monitor visible while running this test and during the test, I witnessed that the CPU Usage was never above 12% and the Memory usage was never above 2.75 GB.

Why doesn't PS utilize all (or more of the) available resources, especially when I'm letting it? I feel like it should run much faster without having to overclock my processors (which I can, but not willing to quite yet).

Insight anyone?

John

jrader wrote in post #13942141
Intel i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 4 Cores

16GB RAM DDR3 1600

2x1GB Graphics card (not that this matters to the test)

Windows 7 Home Premium

PS CS5x64

161.9 seconds

I allotted all available RAM to PS (13.9GB) and used a 1.5TB hard drive as the scratch drive. I set the history states to 1 and the cache to 8. I am confused by the following though. I had the task manager resource monitor visible while running this test and during the test, I witnessed that the CPU Usage was never above 12% and the Memory usage was never above 2.75 GB.

Why doesn't PS utilize all (or more of the) available resources, especially when I'm letting it? I feel like it should run much faster without having to overclock my processors (which I can, but not willing to quite yet).

Insight anyone?

John

Biggest issue with these tests is exactly what you mentioned. Depending on the feature, filter, effect, etc... some are multi core/thread capable and others are not. I had 4 yr old Quad Core that would come close to what my new i7 monster rig would report as far as Photoshop speed tests, so don't put to much stock into it. Not to mention anyone can manipulate performance settings just for this test to give themselves lower scores...but that would have nothing to do with real-word or normal Photoshop usage or needs unless those needs were the exact events the speed test was performing. I had 4 yr old Quad Core that would come close to what my new i7 monster rig would report as far as Photoshop speed tests, so don't put too much stock into it.

I'm sure in future releases (ie CS6 and beyond) we'll start seeing usage of multi-cores more universal though hopefully. Currently where you really see the advantages of the big multicore rigs is in the video processing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro. Now that has been a night and day difference from my old machine, as it uses every bit processor you have. Had to replace my air cooler with a water cooler just to keep my core temperatures reasonable when encoding.

143,1 Seconds
My PC:
Intel i5 2500
8gb ram ddr3 1600
Ati 6950
Asus Maximus Formula IV
SSD 128 Samsung
Windows 7 64bits
CS5 x64

The operations required do not warrant more ram usage. As for CPU, your disk might have been the bottleneck, Was it 12% on each core or 12% combined aka 1 core at 50% and 3 at 0%?
I'll do some tests with this when i get home, my work machine is an old core2quad based xeon Mac Pro with 2 quad core cpus.

coleygm wrote in post #13943563
161.9 seconds


I allotted all available RAM to PS (13.9GB) and used a 1.5TB hard drive as the scratch drive. I set the history states to 1 and the cache to 8. I am confused by the following though. I had the task manager resource monitor visible while running this test and during the test, I witnessed that the CPU Usage was never above 12% and the Memory usage was never above 2.75 GB.

Why doesn't PS utilize all (or more of the) available resources, especially when I'm letting it? I feel like it should run much faster without having to overclock my processors (which I can, but not willing to quite yet).

Insight anyone?

Pit wrote in post #13945440
The operations required do not warrant more ram usage. As for CPU, your disk might have been the bottleneck, Was it 12% on each core or 12% combined aka 1 core at 50% and 3 at 0%?
I'll do some tests with this when i get home, my work machine is an old core2quad based xeon Mac Pro with 2 quad core cpus.

I think it was 12% combined.

Yeah Photoshop is probably not multithredding most filters and actions. So at some time you can have 1 thread out of 8 pegged at 100% while others sit idle (theoretical scenario or 4core 8thread intel 2600k chip). I'll take a closer look at my machine once i get home.

124.8 FIrst go around, not clean after restart.
123.2 After restart.

i7 2600k @4800mhz
16g 1600mhz
240g ocz agility 3 ssd
2x 6970 2g gpus

226 sec

i7-860 2.80GHz stock
Gigabyte P55A-UD4P
8GB RAM 1333MHz
128GB Crucial M4 SSD
GTX 460 1GB
Win7 64-bit
PS CS5 64-bit

solara wrote in post #11510188
i7-860 2.8 Ghz
12 gb DDR3 1333 Mhz
nVidia GT220 1gb
OCZ Vertex 2 60 gb
Win7 64-bit Home Premium
PS CS-5 64-bit

Total time: 210.8 sec

Update on new system:

i7-3770k at stock speed of 3.5 Ghz (next test will be with overclocking to 4.5 Ghz)
MSI Z77A-GD65
32gb DDR3 1600 Mhz Corsair Vengeance
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 SE 1gb
Samsung 830 256gb SSD (main)
OCZ Vertex 3 120gb (scratch)
Win 7 64-bit Pro
PS CS6 64-bit

Total time: 136.3

i7-3770k overclocked to 4.2 Ghz (via OC Genie button)
MSI Z77A-GD65
32gb DDR3 1600 Mhz Corsair Vengeance
Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 SE 1gb
Samsung 830 256gb SSD (main)
OCZ Vertex 3 120gb (scratch)
Win 7 64-bit Pro
PS CS6 64-bit

Total time: 125.1