Most people are tired of running 3dmark and Pcmark and
similar benchmarks, while these are visually attractive
benchmarks they are not in many cases indicative of real
world situations, this is not the case with photoshop.
This is a real world application with a myriad of uses
appealing to all users from digital photographers to budding
graphic designers. It is also a wonderful test of all
round system performance, specifically memory bandwidth
and CPU processing power. Massive files are also a good
test of hard drive access performance as photoshop will
rely heavily for its "paging file". For full
information and links to download this bench for yourself
and to compare scores with other Driverheaven members,
head over
here.
| Test (Lower-Better) |
Geil 667 4-4-4-12 |
Corsair 3-2-2-8 |
Corsair 4-4-4-12 |
| 1: Texturiser Test (1) |
1.7 |
1.6 |
1.7 |
| 2: CYMK Colour Conversion |
4.0 |
3.7 |
3.9 |
| 3: RGB Colour Conversion |
5.0 |
4.9 |
5.0 |
| 4: Dust and Scratches |
4.1 |
3.9 |
4.1 |
| 5: Watercolour |
16.0 |
15.8 |
15.9 |
| 6: Texturiser Test (2) |
4.4 |
4.5 |
4.5 |
| 7: Stained Glass |
6.7 |
6.6 |
6.7 |
| 8: Lighting Effects |
9.9 |
9.9 |
9.9 |
| 9: Mosiac Tiles |
14.5 |
14.2 |
14.4 |
| 10: Extrude |
56.2 |
55.8 |
56.1 |
| 11: Smart Blur |
41.8 |
41.2 |
41.7 |
| 12. Underpainting |
14.4 |
14.1 |
14.4 |
| Total time |
178.7 |
176.2 |
178.3 |
In the first of our real world tests
we can see that the Geil and Corsair 667mhz DDR2 are both
very close in performance however those enhanced settings
available and officially validated by Corsair show huge
time savings over the course of the benchmark, and therefore
over the course of normal Photoshop use.
