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Using Photoshop CS or CS2 (or PS 7)

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1.) Download Image from http://www.quicklance.com/test.jpg

 

2.) Save it to computer and then open it up in Photoshop

 

3.) From there please apply a 'radial blur' with the settings at:

 

Amount = 100

Blur Method = Spin

Quality = Best

 

Using a stop watch / ps timer see how long it takes to apply this filter

 

Please list your mac/pc system, cpu details, amount of ram and the time it took for the test, just so we can get an idea of how different mac machines handle this task.

 

 

My Result:

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137.4 Secs, G5 1.6G, 2GB RAM.

Mac OSX 10.4.3

Photoshop CS2

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5 minutes 20

eMac G4 1ghz, 768mb RAM

Mac OS 10.4.3

Photoshop CS2

 

There is something wrong if a P4 that should be much faster than my eMac is taking almost twice as long to complete such a task. Is Rosetta not as fast as people say? Or is it just the amount of RAM and the processor speed? I would be interested to see how faster processors handle the task.

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Here are my results:

 

Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2

 

Hardware Overview:

 

Machine Name: Apple Development Platform -

Machine Model: Dell 8400

CPU Type: ADP2,1

Number Of CPUs: 2

CPU Speed: 2.99 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL TPR

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 3.2 GHz

Boot ROM Version: A07 (Dell Inc.)

 

Display:

 

Type: VGA-Compatible Controller

Bus: PCI

VRAM (Total): 128 MB

Vendor: ATI (0x1002)

Device ID: 0x5b60

Revision ID: 0x0000

Displays:

Display:

Resolution: 1280 x 1024

Depth: 32-bit Color

Core Image: Supported

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

 

 

Running 10.4.3 BF1111 w/Maxxuss kernel mods (No NX, CPUID)

 

Test time: 1 minute, 52 seconds

 

NOTE: This test was run with Azureas running in the background with three torrents being dl'd.

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145 sec

 

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M 1450G

 

Computername: Apple Development Platform

Computermodel: ADP2,1

Processortype: Intel® Pentium® M processor

Number processors: 1

Processorspeed: 1.6 GHz

L2-cache (per processor): 2 MB

Processorkenmerken: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS TM EST TM2

Memory: 512 MB

Busspeed: 1.6 GHz

 

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900:

 

Chipsetmodel: GMA 900

Type: VGA-compatibele controller

Bus: Ingebouwd

VRAM (totaal): 256 MB

Vendor: Intel (0x8086)

Deviceid: 0x2592

Revision-id: 0x0003

Display:

Unknown display:

Resolution: 1280 x 800

Depth: 32-bits color

Core Image: Supported

Main display: Yes

Mirror: Off

On line: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Supported

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Machine Name: Apple Development Platform

Machine Model: ADP2,1

CPU Type: ADP2,1 <-- AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice E3

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 1.81 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 MB

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SSE3

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 200 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 6.00 PG (Phoenix Technologies, LTD)

 

Graphics/Displays:

Type: VGA-compatibele controller <-- NVIDIA Geforce 6600 GT

Bus: PCI

VRAM (total): 128 MB

Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)

Device ID: 0x0140

Revision ID: 0x00a2

Kernel Extension Info: No Kext Loaded

Resolution: 1024 x 768

Depth: 32-bits color

Core Image: Not Supported

Main Display: Yes

Mirror: Off

Online: Yes

Quartz Extreme: Not Supported

 

 

 

I finished the radial blur effect for test.jpg in 2 minutes and 12 seconds on Photoshop CS2. I am currently running Mac OS X 10.4.3 (8F1111) on a Maxtor 6E040L0 40GB which is old and slow. Lifespan of this hard drive is 83%. If there will be an NVIDIA driver out of the Mac OS X86... I am sure my result will improve. I just did a XBench test for my hard drive and the end result is 17.2. That seem a bit low... is it?

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My results:

 

Work machine: Dual G5 1.8, Nvidia 5200, 1.25 Gigs Ram, 10.3.9, PS CS2 66.0 seconds

 

PC Dell 4700 P4 530 3.0 HT, 1.5 Gigs Ram, Intel 915 PS CS2 WinXP 68.7 seconds

 

Same Dell 4700 running OSX86 10.4.3 1099 native install, PS CS2 110.8 seconds

 

I was surprised the single P4 kept pace with the dual G5 mac...but it looks like PPC apps take a 40% performance hit with rosetta emulation. I'm guessing other PS tests may show varying results, but these numbers come close to representing how these machines perform in real-world Photoshop work. I'm guessing rosetta-run PPC apps on anything 3.0 gigahertz and higher beat most any g4 mac and even some g5s running the same app. I'm going to see if I can get Strata running and do some tests.

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I tested on my two OSX systems, both with CS2:

 

Powerbook G4 1.33, 768 MB RAM 10.4.3:

 

146 seconds

 

 

Intel P4 630 (3 GHz, 2MB Cache), Gigabyte GA-8I915ME-GL, 2GB RAM dual channel, 10.4.3 8F1099:

 

104 seconds

 

 

The little Hackintosh isn't so bad after all!

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118 sec. using Photoshop CS (Version 8) on a native install (from marklar-tiger-release1.iso), 10.4.2 Exec-Patch, 10.4.3 Userland-Update and localisation update.

My Hardware:

Acer Travelmate 290

CPU: Pentium M 1.5 GHz

Graphics: Intel 845

RAM: 512 MB

 

CDFS

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Machine Name: Apple Development Platform

Machine Model: ADP2,1

CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 3.6 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB

Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA CMOV PAT PSE36 CLFSH DS ACPI MMX FXSR SSE SSE2 SS HTT TM SSE3 MON DSCPL EST TM2 CX16 TPR

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

 

 

80 seconds

OSx86 8f1099

CS

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CPU Type: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU SS3

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 3 GHz

Memory: 1 GB

GMA 900 1280x1024

Native install

 

CS2

10.4.3 8F1099 108 sec.

10.4.3 8F1111 107 sec

 

I've read 8F1111 was much better on Rosetta?!? No big difference!

Very interesting the measure made by ccihon.

It seems that executing a program under Rosetta gives you a 40% penalization.

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40% penalty was the difference for this particular Photoshop filter....some filters would show closer results, some a bigger gap. The dual-core machines are doing quite well, as would be expected with Photoshop, one of the few apps that can truly take advantage of it. The dual Athlon64 results beat my G5 1.8 dual....their extra speed was enough to overcome the rosetta emu penalty, here anyway.

 

I do think this kind of test shows more accurately what to expect versus Xbench......for a comparison the G5 dual that did 66 sec on this test Xbenched LOWER than my OSX86 Dell P4 3.0.....? The DDR2 memory performance of the Dell is much higher than the mac, as are the graphics numbers...this is a surprise as the mac has an Nvidia 5200 card and the PC is Intel 900 graphics....

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