DH Photoshop Bench V2 - 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. Massive files are also a good test of hard drive access performance as Photoshop will rely heavily for its "paging file".

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Photoshop seems to have always performed better on Intel chips (checking our online results database shows that 7 of the top 10 results were run on Intel systems) and this continues to be the case in this review. Whilst the Pentium D does outperform the FX-60 when compared to other AMD systems the FX-60 is lightning fast. The dust and scratches test as well as the watercolour test are particular highlights for the AMD system where it manages to outperform the Intel solution.