How fast is your Photoshop ?

Nash · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:56

15 seconds on my 3.06ghz iMac. lulz at the comparisons from the beginning of this thread.

BananaDunka · 31 Mar 2011 at 20:58

I can't even recall the x2 4200+ lol. 2006 seems like such a long time ago!

Adrianr · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:08

Brilliant reading the first bit of this thread, and lol at the amount of people with Photoshop (its a trial, probably, right?

). Would be better if someone can run this on the same hardware using multiple versions of Photoshop though, see how the actual software has changed rather than just ever faster hardware.

Azza · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:11

12.2 seconds on i3-530 @ 4.0Ghz

CS5

How time literally flies!

BananaDunka · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:12

I could give it a go I guess in a Windows XP Virtual Machine, I don't want to mess up my CS5 install by installing CS2 and 3

Hutchy · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:13

4.5 seconds on CS5

Raided SSDs are the future? Or is it all CPU?

BananaDunka · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:14

All the rendering is done on the CPU/GPU so I don't think the HDD matters at all!

Adrianr · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:21

Hutchy said:
4.5 seconds on CS5

Raided SSDs are the future? Or is it all CPU?

I wouldn't be using the results of this test for any set ups for photoshop, its hardly representative of real world use. The old retouch artists speed test was slightly better but it really needed a bigger source image and more layered file actions. As it stood the whole test could be conducted inside of 4gb of RAM, and realistically if you're dealing with RAWS and tiffs that's a little short nowadays.

Oxygen · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:22

yikes! I got 38 seconds

E2180 @ 2Ghz
8gb Ram
Vista 64

Time to look at an upgrade I think. Any suggestions on bang for buck guys?

Mel_P · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:36

8 seconds - CS5 - Core i7 920 etc

Auraomega · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:52

Just over 7 seconds

Skillmister · 2 Apr 2011 at 11:06

14 secs

phenom II x4 @ 3Ghz
ati 4850
6gb ram

Roblam · 2 Apr 2011 at 11:45

22 Seconds.

Core 2 - 2.4Ghz
3GB RAM
Windows 7 - 64bit
CS5

Adrianr · 2 Apr 2011 at 11:57

Oxygen said:
yikes! I got 38 seconds

E2180 @ 2Ghz
8gb Ram
Vista 64

Time to look at an upgrade I think. Any suggestions on bang for buck guys?

If you wan't it to last you a good while, a P67 system with the i5 2500K or i7 2600K are looking like very good options at the moment. Throw in 16GB of ram and a separate scratch disk and there's no reason you can't get a good 3+ years out of it. Camera technology isn't going to move that fast. (To give you a reference, I built a Q6600 system shortly after it's release, whacked a P45 board in when they came out, full ram capacity, seperate RAID0 scratch volume, and it's still tearing through tiffs from Phase backs, P35/45/65, basically 3 years on).

I would probably err on the side of the 2500 as the extra cost for the 2600 doesn't seem to translate to performance for Photoshop at the moment. Plus you can always buy one later down the line for peanuts if suddenly hyper-threading is providing decent gains. Then again if you won't miss the price difference the 2600k is a no brainer

manbearpig · 2 Apr 2011 at 12:08

7.5 Seconds
CS3
Specs in sig.

greywolf · 2 Apr 2011 at 12:27

6 Seconds.

CS3
990X @4.4
6GB ram
GTX460
64GB C300

Swiftlegend · 5 Apr 2011 at 12:19

6 seconds also

i7 920 @ 3.4
12GB ram
GTX 295
3x 30GB OCZ Vertex's Raid 0

mhk1058 · 6 Apr 2011 at 00:48

6.2 secs

CS5
i7 920 @3.59
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
6GB RAM
ATI 5850
Vanilla 1 TB ATA hard disk

BananaDunka · 14 Apr 2011 at 19:52

4.997 seconds with:

4.5GHz i5 2500K
8GB XMS3 @ 9-9-9-24T
MSI P67A-G45-B3
Photoshop CS5 x64
Win7 x64

I am absolutely gobsmacked how this chip eats Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 for breakfast!

3dcandy · 14 Apr 2011 at 19:58

9 secs with a Q6600 and 6 gig ram, ATI 3870, 1tb hard drive. No swap file messing or owt....CS5