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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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
 
Pho said:
1:55 - AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Socket 939, Venice) / 2GB Memory / Photoshop CS2

I really.. really, need to format it's been running slow for a while. But this machine does have lots of other things on it; TV Card software etc so it probably wasn't idle at the time.
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Hey! my software installation (3 day old windows install :p) is no saint either! I too have winfast DTV scheduler running in the BG along with many other stuff :p

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I don't think any of that uses any cpu at all really, they just lay idle until their time comes.
 
Hmm just did it again but this time forced photoshop to use only 1 core and got 1 min 15 secs!
 
no difference here taking the mmeory up, same 37secs - perhaps it's a setting for people with 1gbram only or maybe single core?
 
SilverPenguin said:
Did you raise the memory allocation and then re-load PS before you tried the test again? Changes to preferences dont take affect until you re-start PS.
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Ya !

I don't think it matters in CS2, besides my previous before using 70 was 55%
 
CS3 is quite nice, time on CS3 = 34 seconds, I noticed CS3 detects the GPU too so perhaps it's a little faster as it's using the gfx card as well ?
 
Fstop11 said:
Well worth a 400 quid upgrade from a 37 second 4400+ then?
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It's worth it for many reasons, not just shaving Photoshop time in half :)

RAW photo editing is like you're saving a full quality JPEG on a dual core system, it is so fast!
 
Fstop11 said:
Now you see the reason I want a upgrade is for lightroom performance with large quantities of RAWs in my catalogue.

I am holding my expectations high that browsing through my lightroom database will be smooth and cached fast.
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Well it should be! Windows thumbs my Raws pretty damn fast :)


CS2 is loaded and usable in 8 seconds flat too form a cold start.
 
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Fstop11 said:
My RAWs are never processed outside lightroom. Photoshop opens a full res Tiff which I don't really care about since my production is 90% only touched within lightroom.

Its looking like a worthwhile upgrade as I can't afford to go for a Mac only setup as soon as I like and with my motherboard dying Im gonna have to get it replaced anyway.
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Should be a nice upgrade, I did a quick fraps video to show you just how fast RAW images process. The steps in the video are loading the raws in ACR, quickly apply CTRL+U to auto adjust levels then open both in CS2

http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/videos/raw_performance_quad_core.wmv
 
Oh man, CS3 must be very optimised because I can do this now in 10 seconds flat (Vista32, stock Q6600, 4GB DDR800 @ 5-5-5-12-2T and an 8800GT)
 
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