DriverHeaven Photoshop V2 Benchmark - available for members

Sonata

AMD64 Athlon 1.8GHz
Asus A8V Deluxe
Saphire Radeon 9550
1 gig DDR 400 ram
36GB SATA 10000 Western Digital HD
200GB SATA 7200 Western Digital HD
Windows XP Professional (32bit) SP2
Photoshop CS
Stock settings - no RAID

1: Texturiser Test (1) - 11.6 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion - 7.3 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion - 9.2 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches - 6.6 seconds
5: Watercolour - 44.7 Seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2) - 8.7 seconds
7: Stained Glass - 13.6 seconds
8: Lighting Effects - 9.4 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles - 27.7 seconds
10: Extrude - 82.0 seconds
11: Smart Blur - 59.4 seconds
12. Underpainting - 58.9 seconds
Total=339.1

Only ran the benchmark once.

My Powercolor 9800 Pro is currently being replaced under warranty, I'll run the benchmark again when it comes back and see if that improves my score. This is bragging rights territory, I wish I had spent the extra money and bought high quality Corsiar ram, the trade off is that I have a healthier bank balance Might do some overclocking as well and see if I can crack the sub 5 minute barrier.

blast

Using PS7 with Hyperthreading turned off.

1: Texturiser Test (1)
3.2 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
9.3 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
11.1 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
7.4 seconds

5: Watercolour
27.7 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
2.9 seconds

7: Stained Glass
136.8 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
9.5 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
17.5 seconds

10: Extrude
56.6 seconds

11: Smart Blur
24.6 seconds

12. Underpainting
23.2 seconds

Total:329.9

Jitter

I ran this 2x w/ some confusing results. The first time I had just downloaded the file. I had ATI CCC open, 4 webpages open, still connected to the net, KX Mixer, Anti-virus, and mouse software running and got these results:

p4 1.8
512MB PC2100 2.5,3,3,6
XPPro SP2
Maxtor 80GB drive
Photoshop CS

Photoshop CS
1: Texturiser Test (1)
14.9

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.9

3: RGB Colour Conversion
14.6
4: Dust and Scratches
13.1

5: Watercolour
63.4

6: Texturiser Test (2)
12.0
7: Stained Glass
19.2

8: Lighting Effects
18.4

9: Mosiac Tiles
47.5

10: Extrude
119.9

11: Smart Blur
89.1

12. Underpainting
83.3

Total

503.3

Next time did a fesh reboot shut down everything and got worse results:

1: Texturiser Test (1)
17.6

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.6

3: RGB Colour Conversion
14.6

4: Dust and Scratches
14.3

5: Watercolour
94

6: Texturiser Test (2)
11.3

7: Stained Glass
18.9

8: Lighting Effects
17.4

9: Mosiac Tiles
59.9

10: Extrude
118.3

11: Smart Blur
86.9

12. Underpainting
65.1

Total

525.9

Raubar

P4 3,06@3,4 (FSB 533), 1GB Kingmax 2-2-2-5, 2x80Gb Sata maxtor (ICH5R)

1. 5.3s
2. 4,2s
3. 6.5s
4. 7.3s
5. 32s
6. 3,7s
7. 8,3s
8. 7,6s
9. 20,8s
10. 58,3s
11. 41,8s
12. 33,1s

TOTAL: 228,9s

Vampyromaniac

Well hello there! I know I'm late to the party , but here goes:

Photoshop v7.0


1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.8 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.0 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
7.9 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.9 seconds

5: Watercolour
24.5 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
5.0 seconds

7: Stained Glass
165.3 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.3 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
15.6 seconds

10: Extrude
54.2 seconds

11: Smart Blur
26.4 seconds

12. Underpainting
30.4 seconds

Total time: 353.3 seconds.


Not spectacular, but hey I'm no artist anyway

Blackboost

AMD Athlon 2800 XP @ default speed
ECS KT-600A (latest BIOS)
1GB DDR 400 Kingston RAM
CS 8 Photoshop
Win XP Pro SP2

1: Texturiser Test (1)
15.9 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.8 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
9.6 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.7 seconds

5: Watercolour
48.2 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
10.2 seconds

7: Stained Glass
15.3 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
9.2 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
29.1 seconds

10: Extrude
93.8 seconds

11: Smart Blur
75.8 seconds

12. Underpainting
59.1 seconds

Total time: 379.7 seconds

MacMan

Why do you insist on using all these filters in Photoshop benchmarktests? They are totally irrelevant in a Photoshop workflow, no-one ever uses them. Besides, they are often written in bad code that (sometimes) makes the process stall (specially on Apple Computers). Skip all filters next time, please!

A more relevant Photoshop test should involve tasks that you use everday, such us
Opening a file
Convert to 16 bit/channel
Adjust levels
Adjust curves
Creating an adjustment layer + some blending mode
Crop
Rotate
CMYK
Resize
Sharpen/ Unsharp mask (OK, that is a filter)
Save


Anyway, here are the results on my Mac G5 Dual 2.0 with 1.5 GB of RAM

1: Texturiser Test (1)
6.3 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
2.2 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
2.4 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
3.4 seconds

5: Watercolour
29.8 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
6.9 seconds

7: Stained Glass
11.1 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
5.1 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
38.5 seconds

10: Extrude
76.5 seconds

11: Smart Blur
75.1 seconds

12. Underpainting
43.8 seconds

Total time 301.1 s

e v o

XP2500+@3200+
Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
2x512MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-8
ATI 9800 Pro@414/360
ST3200822A 200GB 8MB Buffer 7200RPM
WD1200JB 120GB 8MB Buffer 7200RPM
Windows XP Pro SP2
Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0


1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.5 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
6.9 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
9 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.2 seconds

5: Watercolour
41.3 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
6 seconds

7: Stained Glass
12.5 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.7 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
24.1 seconds

10: Extrude
77.3 seconds

11: Smart Blur
65.6 seconds

12. Underpainting
51.8 seconds

Total time: 310.9 seconds

Sonata

AMD64 Athlon 1.8GHz @ 1.97984GHz - Asus 10% easy OC
Asus A8V Deluxe - beta bios 1010.003
Powercolor 9800pro
Omega 5.1 Driver
1 gig DDR 400 ram
36GB SATA 10000 Western Digital HD
200GB SATA 7200 Western Digital HD
Windows XP Professional (32bit) SP2
Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1) - 3.1 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion - 6.6 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion - 8.3 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches - 5.8 seconds
5: Watercolour - 43 Seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2) - 5.8 seconds
7: Stained Glass - 10.9 seconds
8: Lighting Effects - 8.5 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles - 25.8 seconds
10: Extrude - 74.6 seconds
11: Smart Blur - 54.2 seconds
12. Underpainting - 52.3 seconds
Total=298.9

2nd time I have run the benchmark - see above for 1st go
I'm happy to go under the 5 minute mark

Alexia

I really do agree with this. However, there are those that do use a good deal of filters for some tasks. I rarely touch filters since I just do photograph touch up. Everything I do in Photoshop now ran just as fast on my older hardware. Personally, I'm interested in seeing this ran on a PB G4 1.67ghz.


Dell Inspiron XPS - P4 3.4ghz Prescott 800fsb - 865P chipset - 1gb PC3200 - ATI Mobile 9700
Photoshop 7

Texurizer
2.7

CMYK Color
6.4

RGB Color
6.7

Dust & Scratches
8.4

Watercolor
28.8

Texturizer
7.4

Stained Glass
118.5

Lighting Effects
7.8

Mosiac Tiles
16.9

Extrude
50.2

Smart Blur
26

Underpainting
21.5

301.3 TOTAL

ecuador2005

Here are my results:

Machine: AMD64 3800 ( 2400 MHz @ 2520 ), 1024 MB RAM Corsair 3200 2-2-2-5-2, Radeon X700 Pro 128MB PCI-Ex, 2x WD ATA133 160GB 7200rpm, 1x SATA Maxtor 160 GB 7200 rpm, Asus A8V Deluxe Mainboard, Bios rev. 1009

1: Texturiser Test (1)
6,1 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
5,0 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
6,4 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
4,6 seconds
5: Watercolour
35,1 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
6,1 seconds
7: Stained Glass
9,5 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
6,6 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles
20,4 seconds
10: Extrude
60,5 seconds
11: Smart Blur
43.2 seconds
12. Underpainting
43,8 seconds
Total time: 220,9 seconds.

MythicaL

Using Photoshop CS, and specs in sig...

Texturizer test 1: 1.4s
CMYK: 8.3s
RGB: 12.8s
Dust and scratches: 5.0s
Watercolor: 25.0s
Texturizer test 2: 3.3s
Stained glass: 6.9s
Lighting effects: not available
Mosiac tiles: 17.7s
Extrude: 35.2s
Smart blur: 24.5s
Underpainting: 31.6s

ecuador2005

Aint there any other benchmarks for photoshop? Dont wanna say, this is a non-real-life bench, though I need something that benches more real life situations....

pr0digal jenius

Am I the only person alive who uses filters or something?

How is this not a real life benchmark? It's an industry standard application using stock settings and out of the box features that are quite taxing on a system.


How much more real life do you want?

SL Design

eMachines m6809
Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz
768mb RAM
Photoshop CS

Windows XP Pro x64 rtm build 3790

1. 14.4
2. 6.7
3. 8.4
4. 6.3
5. 77.6
6. 13.4
7. 17.5
8. 8.6
9. 31.8
10. 83.2
11. 58.9
12. 66.9

Total = 393.7

Windows XP Pro SP2 (32bit)

1. 9.8
2. 6.9
3. 8.6
4. 6.4
5. 57
6. 10
7. 14.1
8. 8.6
9. 30
10. 82.1
11. 60.4
12. 61.2

Total = 328.7

So 32bit XP runs Photoshop a little better. Not noticable in real time work environment. The real test will be when Photoshop CS2 comes out with 64bit compatibilty. That's when you will see the 64bit processors shine.

SL Design

Zardon

Nonsense, I use photoshop for my living and have done since 1989, some of the filters in this suite are used for CMYK photo work or other photo manipulation aspects, and those that arent are included in this suite for intensive CPU stressing and memory bandwidth - specific filters make calls to CPU instruction sets and others test dynamic memory bandwidth, if this suite was solely ran on resizing images and converting between color gamuts or channels it would hardly be a "thorough benchmark". If you want a benchmark catered specifically for your needs then make one with the settings you use on a frequent basis. This suite is an excellent all round comparison test with other systems and if you follow the results in this thread you will see just how different systems perform.

Zardon

Photoshop filters arent "bad code" regardless of platform - PC filters arent coded "better" to make macintosh look bad - the knoll brothers (the original creators of this program via lucasarts) originated the program on the macintosh and until V5.5 the PC variant was sadly lacking, the issues you mention are primarily due to the fact that Apple Macintosh machines in 2005 are way behind high end pc equivalents in regards to the (dated) DDR memory they tend to use (also you have no bios options for altering timings or overclocking), also the risc processors, while powerful clock for clock when compared to AMD64 or intel P4 can struggle with certain filters - this combined with the fact Apple tend to use "average" Hard drive systems mirror your findings. You cannot "blame" a bench for using filters in the testing, this is in fact one of the greatest tests of CPU and memory bandwidth power. The usage of filters combined with everyday graphic bureau manipulations make for a well rounded suite of tests. If of course this suite doesnt "suit you" personally, then its easy to make your own suite.

Now I would appreciate that this thread is kept on track regarding test results, if you have comments or points to make then email me, and ill be happy to debate photoshop and its usage.

zardon@driverheaven.net

Crisao23

System (all stock):
AMD Athlon 64 FX 55 2.6 Ghz
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe 1007 bios
1GB Corsair 1024-3200XL 2-2-2-5
Powercolor Radeon X800XL
Zippy Emacs HP2-6500P 500W PSU
2 x 74GB Western Digital Raptors Raid 0 (TCQ on)
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (with all latest updates installed until 04/27/05)
Adobe Photoshop CS2

1: Texturiser Test (1)
1.7 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
4.8 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
5.5 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
4.0 seconds
5: Watercolour
15.6 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
3.0 seconds
7: Stained Glass
7.0 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
7.5 seconds
9: Mosaic Tiles
14.4 seconds
10: Extrude
47.6 seconds
11: Smart Blur
43.5 seconds
12. Underpainting
20.1 seconds
Total time: 174.7 seconds.

I'll see if it can get better optimizing my memory timings. This is a new box here and I still need to tweak it

Thanks for the benchmark tool!

tastyweat

Welll... i've run the bench on CS 2... and here are my results compared to my run on PS7:

Comparison results 2 (Laptop):
1.6 Dothan, 512MB PC2700 (2x256), XP Home, Pshop 7.0, 60GB 4200rpm HDD

1: Texturiser Test (1)
4.0 seconds - 2.8
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
11.4 seconds - 7.6
3: RGB Colour Conversion
13.1 seconds - 17.2
4: Dust and Scratches
51.3 seconds - 14.1
5: Watercolour
42.5 seconds - 40.5
6: Texturiser Test (2)
14.8 seconds - 9.5
7: Stained Glass
339.6 seconds - 15.8
8: Lighting Effects
14.0 seconds - 20.0
9: Mosaic Tiles
24.3 seconds - 24.8
10: Extrude
81.9 seconds - 99.5
11: Smart Blur
43.2 seconds - 79.5
12. Underpainting
38.3 seconds - 29.5
Total time: 678.4 seconds. - 360.8 (quite an improvement!)

Majin GeoDooD

I just ran the bench on my new system, and using CS2.

1: Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz (Other specs in sig)
2: MSI KN8 Neo4-F
3: 1 GB PC2700 RAM (2x15)
4: Photoshop CS2 - Windows 2000 Pro

1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.1 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
6.2 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
7.1 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
5.1 seconds
5: Watercolour
25.7 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
8.7 seconds
7: Stained Glass
16.2 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
21.0 seconds
9: Mosaic Tiles
29.9 seconds
10: Extrude
82.4 seconds
11: Smart Blur
85.5 seconds
12. Underpainting
26.1 seconds
Total time: 316.0 seconds.

Old results:

1: Texturiser Test (1)
8.9 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.7 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
9.7 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
7.4 seconds
5: Watercolour
88.3 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
8.6 seconds
7: Stained Glass
15.3 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
7.4 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles
29.1 seconds
10: Extrude
99.0 seconds
11: Smart Blur
78.4 seconds
12. Underpainting
54.4 seconds
Total time: 414.2.

Pretty decent improvement.

tortelli

LAPTOP MAKE and MODEL:
ASUS A2800S

CPU:
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz, 1 gig DDR 512x2 PC2700, FUJITSU MHT2060AH (60 GB) (5400rpm)

GFX MODEL:
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series 64 MB

Test with Photoshop CS
1 6.7
2 4.5
3 7.4
4 7.4
5 54.7
6 9.7
7 13.8
8 10
9 30
10 73
11 52.2
12 50.5
Total 319.90


Test with Photoshop CS2

1 2.3
2 5.6
3 7.1
4 8.3
5 32.7
6 8.9
7 13
8 10
9 24.8
10 75.5
11 67.8
12 18.4
Total 274.40

Driver 7

I just got home with my copy of CS 2. !st on my list was to run a bench but thats tough to do when it looks so much nicer then any previous version. Obviously a newer version should look better then the one before but not so much with past adobe products. Anyway I managed to hold off on playing with the new options long enough to run a bench. Here's mine.

AMD64 3200+
ASUS K8N Deluxe
1024MB Dual Channel DDR500
2x120GB Raid 0 Config
WinXP Pro

Photoshop CS 2

1: Texturiser Test (1): 2.0 Sec.
2: CYMK Colour Conversion: 5.8 Sec.
3: RGB Colour Conversion: 6.6 Sec.
4: Dust and Scratches: 7.2 Sec.
5: Watercolour: 19.6 Sec.
6: Texturiser Test (2): 4.5 Sec.
7: Stained Glass: 9.0 Sec.
8: Lighting Effects: 9.6 Sec.
9: Mosiac Tiles: 18.4 Sec.
10: Extrude: 59.6 Sec.
11: Smart Blur: 53.8 Sec.
12. Underpainting: 24.4 Sec.

Total time: 220.5 seconds.


My previous score:

Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1): 10.1 Sec.
2: CYMK Colour Conversion: 6.2 Sec.
3: RGB Colour Conversion: 7.8 Sec.
4: Dust and Scratches: 5.5 Sec.
5: Watercolour: 34.4 Sec.
6: Texturiser Test (2): 5.5 Sec.
7: Stained Glass: 10.0 Sec.
8: Lighting Effects: 8.0 Sec.
9: Mosiac Tiles: 22.5 Sec.
10: Extrude: 72.8 Sec.
11: Smart Blur: 50.7 Sec.
12. Underpainting: 46.7 Sec.

Total time: 280.3 Seconds.

Impressive improvements. Only this is when I ran the first bench in CS1 I was running WindowsXP 64bit. And today with the CS2 bench I am running regular windowsXP Pro. I went back to XP when a punk buster update caused my game to not run with windowsXP 64. That was a few weeks ago though so I may get the install XP 64 again either tonight or tomorrow. Once I do I will run a bench and post the reasults .

Chaos

System: AMD64 3000+ (200x10), K8N Neo, 1024MB Kingston DDR400, WinXP Pro SP2

Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1)
12.1 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
6.4 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
8.1 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.9 seconds

5: Watercolour
39.9 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
7.7 seconds

7: Stained Glass
12.2 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.6 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
24.7 seconds

10: Extrude
79.3 seconds

11: Smart Blur
57.5 seconds

12. Underpainting
54.1 seconds

Total time: 316.4 seconds

Crisao23

First x64 results

system (all stock):
AMD Athlon 64 FX 55 2.6 Ghz
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe 1008 -1 beta bios
1GB Corsair 1024-3200XL 1.5-2-2-5
Powercolor Radeon X800XL
Zippy Emacs HP2-6500P 500W PSU
2 x 74GB Western Digital Raptors Raid 0 (TCQ on)
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Adobe Photoshop CS2

1: Texturiser Test (1)
1.7 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
5.1 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
5.7 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
5.5 seconds
5: Watercolour
15.9 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
3.1 seconds
7: Stained Glass
7.0 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
7.8 seconds
9: Mosaic Tiles
14.9 seconds
10: Extrude
49.7 seconds
11: Smart Blur
44.2 seconds
12. Underpainting
20.5 seconds
Total time: 181.1 seconds.

Lol... Just noticed that the test run with cool 'n quiet ON... Will test again with it OFF.

Scargo