Photoshop 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. For full information and links to download this bench for yourself and to compare scores with other Driver Heaven members, head over here

 

 

Test	2.66	2.93	5000+	FX-62
1: Texturiser Test (1)	1.0	0.9	1.6	1.6
2: CYMK Colour Conversion	1.9	1.7	2.6	2.4
3: RGB Colour Conversion	2.1	1.9	2.9	2.7
4: Dust and Scratches	2.8	2.6	2.2	2.1
5: Watercolour	14.3	12.2	18.2	16.9
6: Texturiser Test (2)	3.3	3.3	4.0	3.7
7: Stained Glass	6.1	5.8	9.4	8.3
8: Lighting Effects	3.5	3.2	3.8	3.5
9: Mosiac Tiles	10.9	10.6	16.7	15.7
10: Extrude	35.8	33.8	47.6	41.8
11: Smart Blur	27.8	26.5	39.4	36.7
12. Underpainting	21.2	20.9	28.1	26.4
Total	130.7	123.4	176.5	161.8

 

Prior to the release of Core 2 there were a few applications available which were always faster on AMD or Intel. Photoshop is one area where Intel has always excelled. With the launch of Core 2 we see that Intel still performs exceptionally well in Photoshop and for a processor at stock speeds the Extreme gives us the fastest Photoshop performance we have ever seen. The Duo isn’t far behind which is to be expected.