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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Test (Lower-Better)	PC5000 NF4 stock	Gold VX 2-2-2-8	PC5000 NF4 291-2T	PC4000 250 1T	PC4000 276 1T
1: Texturiser Test (1)	2.1	2.0	1.9	2.0	1.8
2: CYMK Colour Conversion	5.6	5.3	4.7	5.0	4.5
3: RGB Colour Conversion	6.2	6.1	5.3	5.5	5.0
4: Dust and Scratches	5.2	5.1	4.8	5.1	4.7
5: Watercolour	19.1	18.8	16.3	17.8	15.7
6: Texturiser Test (2)	3.5	3.3	2.8	3.1	2.8
7: Stained Glass	10.8	10.5	8.7	9.4	8.5
8: Lighting Effects	11.4	10.8	8.3	8.5	7.9
9: Mosiac Tiles	19.2	19.1	17.8	18.3	16.9
10: Extrude	63.8	62.5	57.6	56.2	49.5
11: Smart Blur	53.2	52.9	48.2	46.1	44.8
12. Underpainting	23.8	23.7	19.6	22.1	18.9
Total time	223.9	220.1	196.0	199.1	181.0

Memory plays an important part in the performance of photoshop as the results show above, a final score under 250 seconds is an excellent result if you are a power photoshop user.

 

 

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