First of all, here’s few machines benchmarked:
[update 9th May 07]: We have a new winner. Gunnar Tufta from ProVision benchmarked his MacPro 8 core, 6Gb Ram. 22 seconds. Very fast.
Dual Core 2.3Ghz G5 with 4.5Gb RAM at 32sec! (thanks to Alex Kent)
Dual Processor 2.7GhzG5 with 4.5Gb came at 45sec. (my work desktop)
Mac Book Pro 2Ghz/1Gb/5400rpm HD came at 2min and 50 sec (Thanks to Gustav Grahn Calminder)
PowerBook G4/1.33/1.5Gb came at 3min 45 sec (my laptop)
So, what does this mean? Other than that I really have to get a new computer?
Look at the difference between DC 2.3Ghz and DP 2.7Ghz. I decide not to believe that the latter can be 50% slower that the newer model!
{ UPDATE: just got an email from Gary, a friend of mine, and he clocked 47sec. on his Quad G5 but with only 2Gb RAM. This makes it even more confusing. What’s going on? I’ll also decide not to believe this score. Maybe the test needs quite stable conditions. Next I’ll check what effect swap files have on this. }
If any one can provide me with results from the new iMac’s, preferably with max. RAM, I would be very pleased. Thank you.
To do the benchmark test download these two files, ‘image‘ and ‘photoshop action‘.
Shutdown all other programs (mind tho, i did have MenuMeters running and i didn’t turn off any widgets, just make sure they’r not hogging memory or CPU when idle, some do), restart the machine if you haven’t in a while.
Then just run the photoshop action and time it.
That’s it,
let me know how you do. I’d be interested to know how other platform do in this test.
Thanks,
admin
very interesting, yes
An email recieved from Alex explaining his method of running the benchmark.
“my methodology was,
mac os 10.4.6
photoshop 9.0
not after a fresh restart, machine had probably been on for a few days.
quit all other apps except menu meters.
open image, run action
photoshop in foreground the whole time (actions usually run faster if ps is not the foreground app)
timed action by watching the clock in System Preferences > Date and Time on my laptop. click go on the action at say 12:01:00 look at clock again when action stops. approx 12:01:32. did this a few times and took most consistent reading.
will run it again if you want to check.
photoshop probably had the disable virtual memory buffering plugin installed (this is to fix a bug on machines with >4GB ram).
Alex Kent”
MacBook 2Ghz 2Gb 80Gb came at 2:10. New user, nothing else running and had let it cool down. Sweet.
I thought I’d test this again after installing some extra RAM. Here’s the spec:
Power PC G5 Quad 2.5GHz 4GB RAM
So without a restart and after running the G5 for a few days solid, the action came in at 1 minute dead – which is slower than my previous test!?
After a restart performance increased, with a time of 39.26secs.
Now I should go and do something more interesting…! Anyone got some freshly painted walls??