The *NEW* Photoshop speed test thread. This sample image will make your computers cry!

[Logsi]

CS5 12.0.4

Late Unibody 2008 MacBook Pro

CPU - C2D 2.8GHz (Laptop)

8GB of RAM DDR3 1067mhz

Seagate 7200rpm - 500GB. Drive is pretty old.

Took 6:43....

Time for a new computer i think!

 

[Raikiri]

Edit - Updated

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.1

*CPU*
i5 2500K 4.5GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
CS5 set to use up to 14GB (86%)

*INSTALL DISK*
OCZ Vertex LE 50GB

*SCRATCH DISK*
Samsung 500gb 2.5" 5400RPM

*TIME RESULT*
22.8 secs


Damn your SSD scratch disk!

 

[SourChipmunk]

After 11m43s my PC exploded and set my curtains on fire.

Nice picture, though!

 

[mrk]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
Damn your SSD scratch disk!

Surely you can spare a few GBs on the SSD too?

 

[Raikiri]

Haha, about 10 I guess. Not sure if it would really help though. 50GB sounds like a lot but it's clearly too small, need a 240gb m4

 

[SMed]

Some interesting stuff. I just built my PC, specifically for photoshop mostly. I tried a few different setups.

1st attempt. All I did was set RAM to 100%, reboot and ran the test.

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.1

*CPU*
i5 2500K 3.3 GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
8 GB DDR3 1600MHz
CS5 set to use up to 7.128MB (100%)

*INSTALL DISK*
Crucial M4 128GB SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
Crucial M4 128GB SSD

*TIME RESULT*
1 minute 14 seconds




Second attempt, I used the following guide for Photoshop optimisation: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439.html

I changed History & Cache to 'Big and Flat', History States to '1', Cache Levels to '8' and tile size to '1028K'.

*TIME RESULT*
23 seconds




Third attempt, changed Image Mode to 8bit and:

*TIME RESULT*
14 seconds

Fourteen seconds.

 

[greedy123]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.0.4 x64

*CPU*
i7 2600K 3.4 GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
16 GB DDR3 1600MHz 100%

*INSTALL DISK*
OCZ Vertex 2E 256GB SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
OCZ Vertex 2E 256GB SSD

*TIME RESULT*
23.6s

 

[Amp34]

Think my computer is broken...

29 seconds

Not sure about the specifics but...

With a 15k scratch disk and Photoshop allowed to use 40GB of RAM (although it I still had 30GB free after this and another program was using 8GB, so approx 8GB for that)...

think I may need to adjust some settings (or it is heavily SSD based as well).

 

[reygjabla]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.1 X64

*CPU*
I7 3930K 4.6GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
32GB DDR3 1600MHz 2133
CS5 set to use up to 24354 (82%)

*INSTALL DISK*
Intel 510 250GB SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
Intel 510 250GB SSD

*TIME RESULT*
16.5 secs

 

[neil_g]

OOOOF. CS3 didnt like that one bit, i guess the cruddy max memory usage held my results back...

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS3 10.0.1

*CPU*
i7 2600K 4.4GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
CS3 usage maxes out at 3255mb

*INSTALL DISK*
OCZ Vertex 60Gb SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
As above

*TIME RESULT*
3 mins 30 secs

nice kitteh by the way

finally got around to putting CS4 64 bit on.. 23s

 

[Klo]

I ran it on my Dell Studio 15 laptop...

CS5 something.
Intel T4200 (Dual Core 2ghz processor)
4gb of RAM
Windows 7 64bit


5 mins 32 seconds, which although horrifically slow, it still faster than some of the higher spec machines here, so I don't know whats going on there!

Might do a retest in the morning.

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

30s

iMac 2011 i5 16gig Ram.

standard setup

 

[Amp34]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.1 X64

*CPU*
I7 3930K 4.6GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
32GB DDR3 1600MHz 2133
CS5 set to use up to 24354 (82%)

*INSTALL DISK*
Intel 510 250GB SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
Intel 510 250GB SSD

*TIME RESULT*
16.5 secs

finally got around to putting CS4 64 bit on.. 23s

Hmmm... so how dependant is this on HDD speed after a certain amount of RAM as there is no way a singe i7 should beat 2x hex core Xeons?

 

[DampCat]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.1 x64

*CPU*
i5-2500k @ 4.5GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
16GB DDR3 1600MHz
100%

*INSTALL DISK*
WD 7200 2tb jobbie

*SCRATCH DISK*
As above

*TIME RESULT*
28.4s

Thought it'd be better. Oh well.

 

[Kei]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS5 12.0 x64

*CPU*
AMD Phenom II 955BE @ 3.7GHz

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
12GB DDR3 1333MHz
99%

*INSTALL DISK*
WD Raptor 74GB

*SCRATCH DISK*
WD Blue 640GB

*TIME RESULT*
38s

 

[King Damager]

*PHOTOSHOP VERSION*
CS4 x64

*CPU*
i5 2500K Stock

*RAM & PS ALLOCATION*
8GB DDR3 1600MHz
CS4 set to use up to 60%

*INSTALL DISK*
Intel 510 120GB SSD

*SCRATCH DISK*
Intel 510 120GB SSD

*TIME RESULT*
55.3 Seconds

Interestingly I re-ran the test with 100% Memory usage allowed, and it took 1:12.8

Clearly need to OC the 2500, and buy more RAM. Might try it on the Force 3 60GB I've got as well...

kd

 

[mrk]

Windows needs some of that allocation too

 

[King Damager]

Yeah, well it would only allow me to allocate 7.2GB or something. Photoshop did say optimal amount was 4.4 to 5.5 or something... so maybe that's why..

kd

 

[neil_g]

Hmmm... so how dependant is this on HDD speed after a certain amount of RAM as there is no way a singe i7 should beat 2x hex core Xeons?

it shouldnt be. from what ive read the hard disk (scratch disk) only comes into play when RAM has been exhausted.

 

[A.N.Other]

Ah, if only Adobe would release a Linux version of PS Then I think I'd win ...

*sound of trousers unzipping*

4 x Opteron 6274 (2.2 GHz) = 64 cores
128Gb RAM
10Tb HDD + More storage by NAS
128Gb SSD



As it is, my other machine (Q6600, 4GB RAM) isn't going to win any prizes