How fast is your Photoshop ?

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Just got a new PC so wanted to try this.

6.6 seconds.

CS5
Win 7 64bit
Core i7 960
6GB Triple Channel DDR3 RAM
1 TB SATA HD.

EDIT:

Just found this handly little program to display my system specs:

 
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Reckon a high resolution photo would be suitable? I can upload one and update the op :)


I wouldn't update the OP as this will throw all the old results out. Perhaps start a "HD" version thread and linky to this one?
 
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Something like an 8bit Tiff from a 5DMKII RAW file wouldn't be a bad shout. It's kinda the upper limit of common files and still isn't really *that* big. Not sure where it can be hosted. Also if you're doing a new thread, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to make an action more akin to the Retouch Artists speed test. That's actually what I thought this thread was for, completely forget about spinning pony!
 
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I don't think the format of the original image matters because the processing time is going to be the same jpeg or tiff - Internally it's processed the same way no? Jpegs are loaded as bitmaps during processing, they get saved as jpegs upon saving.

Hosting isn't a problem :p

Never heard of Retouch Artists speed test though!
 
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The Retouch Artists test was the one doing the rounds a couple of years back, got pretty popular. Just consisted of a few different things like duplicating layers, cropping, changing colour spaces, sharpening, upsizing, adding a border. Kinda common tasks done in Photoshop. Problem was the source image was a 3.5mb jpeg or something, so computers were doing the whole action inside of 3gb of RAM and not actually giving you a good representation of how fast your computer would handle editing something worth using Photoshop for (IE an 8/16bit TIFF from a DSLR). It was pretty much just telling you how fast your CPU was, and well, plenty of things can do that. As soon as you fed the same action a 35mb tiff it started to inspect more aspects, like increased RAM capacity, scratch disk speed, was a much more rounded test.
 
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Is this still the horse image, and what resolution should it be at?

Because I'm doing this in about 1.3 seconds, something like that, put it this way. I click start, look up and press stop...

Running an i5 at stock with CS4 (64 Bit)
8GB RAM.
SSD.

kd
 
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