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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.
In the hugely demanding Photoshop test we see some very interesting results, for starters there are a few tests where the 3800+ comes very close in performance to the P4EE, and in two cases even beats it. In this test which has in the past seen Intel CPU’s with HT having an advantage over the Athlon64’s its interesting to see such performance which could well be down to the improved memory controller in the Venice core. Overall the P4EE comes out faster than the 3800+ though. Looking at the X2 results we can see there are 4 tests where the Intel CPU out performs the X2 however the majority of the tests are much faster on the X2, one result of note was Test 5 (watercolour) where the X2 performed the image modifications in a third of the time it took the P4EE. For those of you interested in how the X2 CPU load was balanced in test 5 here is a TaskManager grab taken during the benchmark.
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