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Driverheaven Photoshop Bench (CS2)

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	OCZ PC2-6400 Gold	DDR2-667
1: Texturiser Test (1)	1.6	1.6
2: CYMK Colour Conversion	2.3	2.4
3: RGB Colour Conversion	2.9	3.0
4: Dust and Scratches	5.5	5.6
5: Watercolour	18.4	18.7
6: Texturiser Test (2)	4.2	4.2
7: Stained Glass	5.4	5.4
8: Lighting Effects	6.3	6.4
9: Mosiac Tiles	14.5	14.5
10: Extrude	42.4	42.8
11: Smart Blur	41.0	41.3
12. Underpainting	14.2	14.3
Total	158.7	160.2

Although the CPU used in this test is the same regardless of the memory used we can see that the higher frequency of the OCZ sticks allows the Pentium D 950 to stretch its legs just a little further and results in a time which is between 2 and 3 seconds faster than a DDR2-667 system overall. This seems like a small performance difference however if you use Photoshop a lot the advantage does mount up.