Zardon

Most of the regulars coming to Driverheaven.net will be aware of the fact we run a custom Photoshop benchmark in all of our motherboard and memory hardware reviews. Today we are releasing the new overhauled V2, which offers full compatibility with V7 and the newest CS version. The V2 benchmark will be now featuring in our forthcoming reviews and is a fantastic real world test of cpu power and memory bandwidth. I have been using Photoshop since 1990 on the Macintosh and have taught many users how to unleash the versatility of this incredible application.

For download information and instructions on how to use the benchmark head to this page - please note you will be able to compare your system with future reviews with this benchmark as it will be the same one we are using.

It would be benefical if we could get a good array of testing, so if you guys could post your results it would help. Ill award a few people in the thread oversized avatars for taking the time to give system information and scoring.

1:Cpu - Speed
2:Motherboard/bios if possible
3:Ram
4:Photoshop version (V7 is slower specifically in Stained glass filter - read article text for further information)
and operating system.

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Some Comparison results

Comparison results 1 (High End Overclocked Intel PC):
Intel Extreme Edition processor 3.73 ghz @ 4.1ghz (64 bit processor), Asus P5AD2-E Motherboard 1002 bios, 2 gig of OCZ ram running at 800mhz 8-2-3-4. OCZ 520 Powerstream supply. Maxtor 300gig 16 meg Cache HD, Windows XP 64 bit Professional. Photoshop CS.
Other test results will be added shortly on other systems, for more results and to compare with our members, please visit this thread on our forums.

1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.5 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
3.1 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
5.5 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
6.1 seconds
5: Watercolour
21.3 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
2.6 seconds
7: Stained Glass
9.5 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
5.2 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles
12.1 seconds
10: Extrude
38 seconds
11: Smart Blur
22 seconds
12. Underpainting
18 seconds
Total time: 145.9 seconds.

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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: CYMK Colour Conversion
11.4 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
13.1 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
51.3 seconds
5: Watercolour
42.5 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
14.8 seconds
7: Stained Glass
339.6 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
14.0 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles
24.3 seconds
10: Extrude
81.9 seconds
11: Smart Blur
43.2 seconds
12. Underpainting
38.3 seconds
Total time: 678.4 seconds.

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Comparison Results 3 (High End Macintosh System):
Apple .Mac - thanks : Lars Broberg
PowerMac G5, dual 2.5, 2GB ram, WD Raptor, Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1)
10.1 seconds
2: CYMK Colour Conversion
2.2 seconds
3: RGB Colour Conversion
2.4 seconds
4: Dust and Scratches
3.5 seconds
5: Watercolour
29.9 seconds
6: Texturiser Test (2)
8.5 seconds
7: Stained Glass
10.8 seconds
8: Lighting Effects
4.4 seconds
9: Mosiac Tiles
40.4 seconds
10: Extrude
65.8 seconds
11: Smart Blur
60.3 seconds
12. Underpainting
38.4 seconds
Total time: 276.7 seconds.

craig5320

System: AMD64 3500+ (200x11), A8N-SLi Deluxe, 512MB Dual Channel DDR400, WinXP Pro

Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1)
17.2 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.0 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
9.8 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
6.6 seconds

5: Watercolour
67.2 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
11.5 seconds

7: Stained Glass
15.0 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.3 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
26.6 seconds

10: Extrude
71.0 seconds

11: Smart Blur
53.9 seconds

12. Underpainting
55.1 seconds

Total time: 349.2 seconds.

Not quite Allan's result, but I'm happy.

Excellent work Allan, keep it up


EDIT: I cleaned up the off-topic posts in here, if anyone wonders. Thanks

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Wrathbin

System: AMD64 3000+ (255x9), Asus A8v Deluxe bios 1010-003 Beta, Simple Tech 1024MB Dual Channel DDR400 2.5 3 3 7 @ 208.6 mhz X 2, WinXP Pro

Photoshop 7
1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.6 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
6.5 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
7.2seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.4 seconds

5: Watercolour
21.6 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
4.1 seconds

7: Stained Glass
147.2 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
7.1 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
15.8 seconds

10: Extrude
46.8 seconds

11: Smart Blur
23.4 seconds

12. Underpainting
27.7 seconds


Total: 314.9 Seconds (Added by craig5320)

mkk

Only run this once so I'm just throwin out the numbers for quick reference if anyone wants to compare this type of system: AthlonXP 2700+ (2.19GHz Thoroughbred-B), ABIT KV7, 1.5GB PC2700 RAM (2.5-3-3-7), WinXP+SP2, PS 8.0(CS).
1:4.2 | 2:8.2 | 3:9.0 | 4:5.6
5:44.7 | 6:7.5 | 7:13.2 | 8:8.8
9:27.3 | 10:96.4 | 11:77.8 | 12:50.9
Total:353.6

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Vikingod

this is a great idea guys, I have been waiting for something like this. I'll post scores when I get around to it. Keep up the good work.

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Fatal0E

Athlon 64 3200+ Winchester 255x10, Soltek K8Tpro-939, Geil 512x2 DDR 400@360, Windows XP Pro 32bit

Photoshop 7
1: Texturiser Test (1)
3.4 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
8.0 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
8.7 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
6.5 seconds

5: Watercolour
25.8 Seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
3.2 seconds

7: Stained Glass
190.1 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
9.5 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
20.9 seconds

10: Extrude
63.4 seconds

11: Smart Blur
34.5 seconds

12. Underpainting
34.8 seconds

Judas

Athlon XP Barton 2500+ @ defaults, Abit AT7-MAX2 Socket A, Generic Azen ram, 2x512 PC2700 (2.5 cas, everything else as tight as possible), Windows XP Pro 32bit

Photoshop 7
1: Texturiser Test (1)
4.4 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
12.0 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
12.6 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
8.2 seconds

5: Watercolour
33.5 Seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
7.4 seconds

7: Stained Glass
249.9 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
12.2 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
26.3 seconds

10: Extrude
95.4 seconds

11: Smart Blur
43.9 seconds

12. Underpainting
49.7 seconds

Total

555.5

What are the chances of THAT figure!?

Btw... not exactly the perfect working enviroment... i'll run it under the best conditions later

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Crisao23

thanks !!!!

benchmarking here

Robert McClelland

I'm download photoshop now going take me couple days I post my test soon I can.

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Danhill

Great, I'm going to do this bench later today, what system is best suitable for this bench, AMD or Intel, is Photoshop CS taking any advantages to Hyperthreading??

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mike2h

if you get me a copy of photoshop i would be glad to test this for you

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Driver 7

I ran it twice thinking I must have done something wrong. My guess as to why my score is better than some that have been posted is my Operating system.

System: AMD64 3200+
ASUS K8N Deluxe
1024MB Dual Channel DDR500
2x120GB Raid 0 Config
WinXP Pro x64bit Build 3790 (service Pack 1, v.1433)

Photoshop CS

1: Texturiser Test (1)
10.1 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
6.2 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
7.8 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.5 seconds

5: Watercolour
34.4 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
5.5 seconds

7: Stained Glass
10.1 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.0 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
22.5 seconds

10: Extrude
72.8 seconds

11: Smart Blur
50.7 seconds

12. Underpainting
46.7 seconds

Total time: 280.3 seconds.

What were the results that Zardon ended up with? (edit) I found it. 145.9 seconds. lmao. Good job man. Asside from your lightning fast processor you are running a x64 OS aswell. This seems to be the only benchmark that really shows the 64 bit theory to be all it's cracked up to be.
Awesome benchmark guys. I think it's much better then the previous one.

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radeonthetop

A french result

Athlon XP 64 3500+ (0.13) ; GA-K8NXP-9 (nForce 4 ULTRA) ; 1GO Corsair CAS 2.5 PC 3200 ; 2DD Raptor 74GO RAID 0 : Radeon X700PRO 256MO

1- 3.8 s
2- 7.8 s
3- 7.8 s
4- 7.1 s
5- 23.3 s
6- 3.8 s
7- 16.9 s
8- 7.6 s
9- 15.9 s
10- 54 s
11- 24.3 s
12- 29.7 s

Next bench is coming soon with Asus AN8-SLI DELUXE

Logla

1: Intel P4c @ 3.0GHz
2: Abit IC7-MAX3 BIOS 13
3: 1024 OCZ Gold
4: Photoshop 7
5: WinXP Pro


1: Texturiser Test (1)
3.1 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
8.3 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
9.3 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
8.8 seconds

5: Watercolour
29.9 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
4.5 seconds

7: Stained Glass
127.4 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.3 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
16.5 seconds

10: Extrude
51.9 seconds

11: Smart Blur
20.2 seconds

12. Underpainting
23.9 seconds

Total 312.1

Danhill

I can't download the file, I come to a page that says leech page??

Can somebody help me??

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Zardon

if you have a firewall, make sure its not blocking referrer, this is why you would be seeing the leech page. The reason we have this in place is that other sites always leech our files.

Danhill

Thank you, I disabled the Firewall and I'm dowloading now.

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Zelig

Check out this thread maybe.

Make sure you have referrer logging enabled in whatever browser you're using, and check options in any firewall/privacy program for a setting that might be blocking it.

edit: I need faster internet.

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udkjack

Photoshop CS, Windows XP Pro SP 2, ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, P4 Northwood 3 Ghz, 2x 512 MB PC400 RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro, Primary HD (Photoshop Swap) Seagate 120 GB ATA-100 8 MB Cache 7200 RPM, Secondary HD (Windows Pagefile) Samsung 160 GB SATA-150 8 MB Cache 7200 RPM

Results (1st run):

Danhill

P4 3,2E @ 3,6, 1 Gb of DDR 400, Abit IC7-G, Photoshop CS (8)

I ran the test now, I ran it 3 times and took out the best results I had, I'm a bit confused that I might have done something wrong as my score seems a little better compared to similiar systems, here goes;


1: Texturiser Test (1)
4.7 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
3,5 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
6,3 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
6,0 seconds

5: Watercolour
35,4 Seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
3,4 seconds

7: Stained Glass
8,4 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
5,8 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
22,4 seconds

10: Extrude
53,6 seconds

11: Smart Blur
41,0 seconds

12. Underpainting
32,1 seconds

Total

222,6

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udkjack

One thing should be noted I think:

Even if you have lots of RAM, your harddisk setup matters quite significantly (Photoshop uses the HD a lot - for internal caching, etc.). People with lesser systems (CPU and RAM-wise), but RAID setups, for example, might see higher overall performance than people with higher-end, but RAID-less systems. So I think it would be best to include HD setup in the results.

That said, bench away

yorobbie

AMD AthlonXP2500+(Barton)@3200+(2.2ghz), Abit NF-7S2 0706bios, 2x512mb of Corsair XMS3200C2 running at 200mhz 3.0-3-3-8 + 512mb Corsair XMS3500C2 running at 200mhz 2.5-4-4-8. Samsung 120gig SATA HD 8 meg Cache, Windows XP Professional. Photoshop CS.
1: Texturiser Test (1)
2.7 seconds

2: CYMK Colour Conversion
7.1 seconds

3: RGB Colour Conversion
8.9 seconds

4: Dust and Scratches
5.3 seconds

5: Watercolour
41.7 seconds

6: Texturiser Test (2)
5.3 seconds

7: Stained Glass
10.8 seconds

8: Lighting Effects
8.9 seconds

9: Mosiac Tiles
24.9 seconds

10: Extrude
76.7 seconds

11: Smart Blur
61.4 seconds

12. Underpainting
49.1 seconds
Total time: 302.8 seconds.

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Zardon

It is a balance, a small file makes benchmarking on modern computers highly inaccurate, hence the size of this file, 60meg..... any paging should be minimal with this test, even with the largish 60 meg file, 300 meg of ram should cover the file and the filters and tests applied (approx 5 times the size of the source file), however HD will make a slight impact especially with the CMYK conversion as the file will increase in size temporarily (80meg) until it is shrunk via the RGB conversion later in the benchmark suite. Therefore yes it will make a slight difference but minimum to the results - i tested with stratch disc set to a raptor and a 7200drive and the difference was under a second, a much higher factor will be the version of photoshop used as I explained with the documentation. Of course the more ram (with tighter timings/bandwidth) the better !

Asmoday

Hmmmm, here's mine on a heavy fragmented machine.

PS CS, specs in sig.

texturizer 9,3

CYMK Colour Conversion 4,9

RGB Colour Conversion 6,4

Dust and Scratches 4,5

Watercolour 34,3

Texturiser Test (2) 6,7

Stained Glass 9,9

Lighting Effects 6,5

Mosiac Tiles 20,4

Extrude 57,8

Smart Blur 41,6

Underpainting 43,4

Total= 245,7s

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udkjack

You're right, in this bench HD performance has much lesser impact than I initially thought. The file size seems to be perfect for it

Wrathbin

I redid the test with all programs possable turned off and got better scores which I updated on my first post, it seems my scores are higher then most in everything but stained glass, as Zardon says, it must have a lot to do with me using photoshop 7, I am also in Raid 0

Zardon

The guys in adobe really overhauled the filters as some of you will know in CS, especially those which call to specific CPU instruction sets. Those giving results with V7 will be quite a bit slower than those on CS due to a few tests primarily stained glass. Still its worthwhile as you can hopefully in this thread over time see users with similar systems and the scores they are getting.

Asmoday

I re-did my test with my cpu clocked @ 10x265 RAM at 1:1 cas 2.5 3-3-7, and set the ram to 85% these are my new scores;

Texturiser Test (1) 2,2

CYMK Colour Conversion 4,8

RGB Colour Conversion 6,1

Dust and Scratches 4,3

Watercolour 34,4

Texturiser Test (2) 4,3

Stained Glass 8,4

Lighting Effects 6,3

Mosiac Tiles 19,6

Extrude 55,8

Smart Blur 40

Underpainting 40,4

total time= 226.6s

Edit: and it's Photoshop CS...

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Zardon

thats one hell of an improvement, great scores !

Asmoday

Thanks Z, but what puzzles me is the great improvement of the Texturiser Test (1)...from 9.3s to 2.2s...

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