How fast is your Photoshop ?

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Many people out there still complain that Photoshop CS and CS2 are too slow at applying adjustments on large images, some say 7 is faster all round - maybe this is true, maybe CS and CS2 favour newer processors who knows!

Here's a small test to try (unashamed to steal this from a hardware forum :p)

Download This Photo and follow the below steps after loading it in your Photoshop version.


Open the Radial Blur dialogue (filters > blur > radial blur) and set:
Amount = 100
Blur Method = Spin
Quality = Best
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Have a stopwatch handy to see how long it takes :)


I got 37secs using a x2 4200+ 2.2ghz/core on CS2 (2gb ram)
 
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1 min 25 secs. Opteron 146 in need of a format. Enough time to go make a coffee, which I think I will go do now. :D

Dave
 
1 min 13 secs (a64 3200+ @ 2.3GHz). I generally find CS2 reasonably fast, can't complain considering how much calculation it must take to apply filters etc to big images.
 
WOuld be interesting to see what some Intel dual core/quad core users are getting too, the other board had majority AMD owners, lol :p
 
16.3seconds under WinXP-pro using CS2 for Windows.
16.9seconds under OSX using CS2 for Mac. (under Rosetta as CS2 is a PPC binary so im impressed)

Macpro dual-dualcore 2.66ghz, 4gb ram.
 
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Now here's a better test. Do a full days editing in photoshop and then see what result you get. I'm fairly sure PS does slow down to the point you need to close it and re-open it.
 
cyKey said:
Now here's a better test. Do a full days editing in photoshop and then see what result you get. I'm fairly sure PS does slow down to the point you need to close it and re-open it.
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I've noticed that in Elements , the longer you've had it open the more time it takes to load up new images . I've tried fiddling with the cache settings but it never makes any difference
 
mrgubby said:
I've noticed that in Elements , the longer you've had it open the more time it takes to load up new images . I've tried fiddling with the cache settings but it never makes any difference
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I get the same issue from time to time. Killing the program and reloading seems to fix it (sometimes).

Mine took 2 mins 15 seconds on my laptop!
Pentium M 1.86 - 1gb RAM
Edit: Photoshop CS2 :)
 
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