How fast is your Photoshop ?

BananaDunka · 7 Nov 2006 at 09:49

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

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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

Have a stopwatch handy to see how long it takes

I got 37secs using a x2 4200+ 2.2ghz/core on CS2 (2gb ram)

fini · 7 Nov 2006 at 09:57

AMD 64 3000+
1GB RAM

1:31:2
(computer does need a format though)

fini

divuk83 · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:06

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.

Dave

MrScott · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:09

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.

BananaDunka · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:18

WOuld be interesting to see what some Intel dual core/quad core users are getting too, the other board had majority AMD owners, lol

Cuchulain · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:31

Just under 25 seconds, spec. in sig.

Photoshop CS2

BananaDunka · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:34

:O That's fast

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:35

37 Seconds exactly.
CS2

AMD 4400+ X2
3 gig of Ram
Raptor 74 Gig
zx1800XT

Cuchulain · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:36

mrk said:
:O That's fast

It's a shame that my work machine (the one I need to use photoshop on), is a bit of a dog.

morgan · 7 Nov 2006 at 10:44

Dell Precision 690
3.2Ghz Xeon
2GB Ram
CS2
28 Sec

Colin_da_Killer · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:03

2mins and 2seconds

Adobe cs2
AMD athlon 2800XP
1GB ram

Darryn · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:06

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.

dod · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:10

2 mins, 25 seconds

Laptop, XP2800+ with 256MB ram

Colin_da_Killer · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:18

dod said:
2 mins, 25 seconds

Laptop, XP2800+ with 256MB ram

Get an extra 768mb of ram and you will gain a whole 23 seconds!

mrgubby · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:19

1m 25s on an A64 3000+ with 1GB using Elements 4

(some of us can't afford Photoshop)

TheBigCheese · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:27

37 seconds in CS2.

X2 4400, 2Gb, RAID 0.

cyKey · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:29

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.

mrgubby · 7 Nov 2006 at 11:32

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.

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

TerraS · 7 Nov 2006 at 12:08

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

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

dhill · 7 Nov 2006 at 12:41

40 seconds

HP Laptop

HP nx9420
Intel Duo 2 T7400
2Gb Ram