Photoshop Speed Test

[Rson]

I was wondering if anyone has updated the PS Speed Test.

I just built a PS machine and wanted to compare.

So far without a scratch disk, I was able to complete the original in 27 seconds.

Pretty good for a $1500 machine.

[Howard Barlow]

Enlighten the ignorant, please. That would be me. What is the PS speed test?

[Rson]

There was a big PS speed test that you downloaded at http://www.retouchartists.com/pages/speedtest.html

It gave a baseline to how fast your system was against others.(MAC, Windows boxes etc.)

So far my built systems have killed the competition but I wanted to get comparisons.

[littleman23408]

Hey Rich,

Im guessing you were running a windows platform?

I might have to run this on my macbook when I get home. Thanks for the link!

[cjphotog]

Great! Thanks for the application. Now I know how fast I can mess up a perfectly good photo.

[rages4calm]

This will be interesting, I have to try this tonight after work on my gaming rig.

Current PC specs after a rebuild last week.

AMD Black Edition - Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (overclocked it 2 days ago)
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8300 motherboard GPU
6 Gigs Ram, DD2 G.Skill Ram
Windows Vista x64 Edition (Only because on 64 your OS and Software will support however much ram your machine has and windows 32 only supports 3 gigs)
Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb
Sound Blaster X-Fi (Fata1lty Edition)

I haven't actually had time to really do much on the machine or benchmarking, but I guess photoshop is just as good of a start as any.

[Rson]

Yep, I am running Windows XP Pro X64

One computer one I am getting about 41 seconds (I think it might be overhead slowing me down) (Athlon X2 6400, 4gb Ram, Raid 0, 200gb scratch, x1900 video)

One Computer 2 I was getting 27 seconds.
(Phenom 9850, 4gb ram, Raid 1, 1gb video)

[Rson]

Originally Posted by rages4calm

(Only because on 64 your OS and Software will support however much ram your machine has and windows 32 only supports 3 gigs)

32 bit supprts 4gb, however 512meg is used for overhead leaving you 3.5gb.
By definition, a 32-bit processor/system uses 32 bits to refer to the location of each byte of memory. 2^32 = 4.2 billion, which means a memory address that's 32 bits long can only refer to 4.2 billion unique locations (i.e. 4 GB).

You need a /3g switch in the Boot.ini file to use the 4gb in XP.

[rages4calm]

Originally Posted by Rson

32 bit supprts 4gb, however 512meg is used for overhead leaving you 3.5gb.
By definition, a 32-bit processor/system uses 32 bits to refer to the location of each byte of memory. 2^32 = 4.2 billion, which means a memory address that's 32 bits long can only refer to 4.2 billion unique locations (i.e. 4 GB).

You need a /3g switch in the Boot.ini file to use the 4gb in XP.

Yes the operating system, i was referring to software side of 32 bit. :) btw nice math lol

[Rson]

Totally plagiarized. I am still working on the "Train leaving Boston and a Train leaving Dallas where do they meet" level. My guess is the meet at the nose of the train???

[Howard Barlow]

Aha! Thanks.

[RKEnnis]

I just ran the test on my Mac Pro (Photoshop CS3, 2.66 quad core, 4GB, ATI 2600 video).

I got 30 seconds. I'm happy with that, but I do have a bit more in the machine than $1500 :/

I'll be upgrading the memory to 7 GB this evening, I'll see if the results improve at all (which I doubt).

Originally Posted by Rson

I was wondering if anyone has updated the PS Speed Test.

I just built a PS machine and wanted to compare.

So far without a scratch disk, I was able to complete the original in 27 seconds.

Pretty good for a $1500 machine.

[Rson]

Yeah, Sadly the Phenom box is leaving me today to the new owner for her photo company :(

I was just building it for her

[AndrewCCM]

Good Lord.

MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz 2 GB RAM.. CS3...

3min 30sec.

I didn't read the read me.. just loaded pic and ran action. I had a couple of other apps open, but nothing major. Glad I don't edit on my Mac. Next up.. my PC... when I have a chance.

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by Rson

32 bit supprts 4gb, however 512meg is used for overhead leaving you 3.5gb.
By definition, a 32-bit processor/system uses 32 bits to refer to the location of each byte of memory. 2^32 = 4.2 billion, which means a memory address that's 32 bits long can only refer to 4.2 billion unique locations (i.e. 4 GB).

You need a /3g switch in the Boot.ini file to use the 4gb in XP.

As I understand it, that /3g switch doesn't do anything in XP after Service Packs are applied.

I could be wrong though.