AMD X2 Photoshop Test

[mindwreck]

using photoshop cs
test 1
started 12:37:08 am
ended 12:38:49 am
time: 1 min 41 secs

test 2 12:41:53 am
ended 12:43:26 am
time 1min 41secs
is this about right? didn't think this sempron would be that quick

 

[MetroRider]

using PS 7

Dell GX280:

P4 - 3.6 GHz w/ 2 GB Ram and 80 GB Sata hd on XP Pro

71 seconds

 

[MetroRider]

ok, tested on another machine:

Dell P4 - 2 GHz w/ 256mb ram using PS 7

180 seconds (3 minutes flat)

(new Pentium D machine came in, will post back once that is tested...)

 

[MetroRider]

ok, remotely connected to box, installed PS 7, and ran the test...

Dell GX620:

Pentium D - 820 (2.8 GHz) w/ 512mb ram

63 seconds

(not too bad compared to 3.6 ghz box i tested earlier)

 

[Griffinhart]

Originally posted by: MetroRider
ok, remotely connected to box, installed PS 7, and ran the test...

Dell GX620:

Pentium D - 820 (2.8 GHz) w/ 512mb ram

63 seconds

(not too bad compared to 3.6 ghz box i tested earlier)

You could shave off another 10 seconds or so if you used CS2 as well. PRobably a few more seconds if you had more than 512MB too. I would guess it would be in line with some of the slower G5 dual processors, which is pretty respectable. Especially for a $280 CPU.

 

[Avi44]

115.7 seconds on

Pentium 4 2.4GHz Northwood
512MB RAM

 

[Diogenes2]

New 4200+ up and running at 2.4g ( so far )

2gb RAM

~ 33 seconds..

 

[nvsravank]

I tested with my old Athlon 1.2Ghz machine from four years ago with Photoshop CS and it gave me 4 min 22 sec.

Well That gives me more reasons to convince my wife i need a new computer!

 

[asicman]

59 seconds, 3700+ @ 2.5 GHz, 2GB PDP 2-3-2-5 1T, 250GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA using CS2

 

[rchiu]

AMD x2 3800+ @2.5Ghz
2Gig Corsair ValueRam 4x512mb
DFI NF4 Ultra-D
WD Raptor 74GB OS/Program
2x120GB Maxtor 7200RPM HDD software raid for data

~33 sec using Stop Watch
38~50 sec using CS2 timer

I am having hard time believing CS2 timer is accurate. I ran the test at least 5 times, and everytime the stop watch gives me about 33 sec from clicking ok to finish. But the CS2 timer gives me anywhere from 38sec to 50sec from each try.

 

[Duvie]

No that is right...it is a POS...

 

[imported_wyrmrider]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2497&p=3

Athlon 64 X2: New Memory Dividers and Multitasking Performance
Multitasking with Adobe Photoshop CS

The end result is far more tangible this time around, with DDR480 completing the Photoshop task in 6.5% less time than the same system with DDR400.

We used our Windows Media Encoder test here because in our original article, the WME test itself saw no benefit from DDR480, much like Photoshop CS. But putting the two together and tossing in some background music changed the picture; it changed things enough that we?d actually recommend using higher bandwidth memory in this case.

 

[yourdeardaniel]

wouldn't ram and HDD transfer rates affect your time? or is it only CPU dependent?

 

[Paolo]

62sec

A64 3200+(venice) @2550
Asus A8V Deluxe
2G Patriot PC3200 DDR
PS CS2

 

[Diogenes2]

Originally posted by: yourdeardaniel
wouldn't ram and HDD transfer rates affect your time? or is it only CPU dependent?

A difference might show up if you had an image larger than your available RAM..

But I went from from 67 to 34 by changing from a 3500 @ 2.4 to the X2 at 2.4 , while my RAM and HDD stayed the same.. So it looks like it scales pretty linearly with the CPU, all else being equal..

 

[garkon8]

55 seconds

Not too shabby, and this gave me a reason to finally install Photoshop. I can just imagine all the wasted time I'll spend playing with it!

 

[garkon8]

53 seconds...

My final run, this time OC@3.91.

 

[keeleysam]

25 secs rig in sig CS2

 

[andrewln]

hmm..why did mine took so long...maybe of the ram having CAS 2.5? can't belive i'm beaten by 100s...lol...just 2 years old machine
134.5s

Athlon XP Barton 2500+ at 1.8@2.2Ghz
ASUS A7N8X-E Nforce2
2 x 512MB PC3200, dual channel 2.5-3-3-3
WD 160GB ram

 

[karioskasra]

P4B 2.67@3.0 using 2x512mb of some crappy pc2700ram thats running even BELOW its rated speed (haha). I had 133 seconds ish, with a paused movie in the background and multitasking. Will post results next week on my oc 3800x2 when it arrives (if i find this thread again).

 

[magomago]

Is using just one filter to test preformance for a pc even accurate? I'm sure different filters will have different effects...I remember drag once saying that although many filters on the PC version of PS run faster as compared with the mac verison, the most used filters run faster on a G5 than they did on x86....

 

[fluxquantum]

i benchmarked on 3 different systems all running PhotoShop CS2

58 seconds.
A64 3200+ @ 2.7GHz (S939)
1GB
Seagate 7200.8 200 GB

1 minutes 23 seconds.
P4 2.6c (S478)
1GB
Seagate 7200 80 GB

3 minutes 5 seconds
P4 1.6a (S478)
1 GB
Maxtor 7200 80 GB

 

[andrewln]

bump

 

[mitch66]

36 seconds

 

[deanx0r]

34-35 sec. here
Did the test 4 times with the same result.
CS2
3800 @ 2.4GHz
2GB of RAM