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February 13, 2003
Ace's Hardware takes a look at AMDs Barton, including comprehensive PSbench results.
Barton: 512 KB Athlon XP Reviewed
August 24, 2002
Some of the more respected regulars over at Ars Technica's Battlefront put together a few interesting graphs:
PSbench Scores Normalized by SW on Ars Technica
Here are the details on how SW normalized the results:
SW's Mac vs. PC Performance Pages - Photoshop 7
July 19, 2002
You can find a great deal of discussion involving PSbench results over at Ars Technica. Their popular OS discussion forum, aptly named the Battlefront has a long running thread that includes a lot of results and commentary. A word to the wise, watch out for those with an obvious agenda. :)
May 26, 2002
Mike Breeden's article, PowerBook G4/800 First Impressions utilizes Adobe Photoshop 7 and PSbench 5.
April 24, 2002
Johan De Gelas' article, CPUs For Workstations and Small Business Servers utilizes Adobe Photoshop 6.01 to compare system performance. This article does a great job of showing just how important memory performance is for Photoshop.
January 25, 2002
One of my favorite hardware related websites([H]ard|OCP) takes a look at Photoshop performance on dual Athlon systems. Kyle Bennet's article, MSI K7D Mainboard Review takes a look at one of the first dual Athlon motherboards.
November 03, 2001
Accelerate Your Mac! compares a G4 Powerbook and PIII Laptop. Their article, PowerBook G4/667 (OS X 10.1) vs PIII/850 PC Notebook (Win XP) has PS5bench scores for the laptop toting graphic artists.
September 29, 2001
Accelerate Your Mac! compares the latest releases of OS X. Their article, OS X 10.1 vs 10.0.4 Performance:(Dual G4/500 Test System
compares OS X 10.1 and OS X 10.0.4, and finds little difference in Photoshop performance.
August 30, 2001
One of Accelerate Your Mac!'s readers compares the 1GHz G4 and AMD Athlon 1.6GHz using PS5bench Advanced. You can find the report here: Photoshop Tests (PSBench 50MB Test File)1GHz G4 vs 1.6GHz Athlon. The report discusses the Radial Blur issues in Photoshop 6.
May 20, 2001
Scott Wasson, of the Tech Report takes a look at the v6.0.1 update and peformance differences between the AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium 4. The short report, Adobe's Photoshop update for the Pentium 4 ...Tweak Tweak, tweak, uses PS5bench Intermediate to compare the Athlon 1.33GHz and Pentium 4 1.7GHz.
March 21, 2001
Accelerate Your Mac! compares the Powerbook G4 to desktop G4 and PIII 1GHz systems. Their article, XLR8's MPe Dual G4/500 Upgrade for Beige G3
highlight some of the best Mac numbers to date
March 09, 2001
Accelerate Your Mac! compares the Powerbook G4 to desktop G4 and PIII 1GHz systems. Their article, PowerBook G4 Photoshop Performance Compared to Desktop G4s, 1GHz PC has some interesting numbers from a dual G4 450 based system.
February 09, 2001
Anand Lal Shimpi Anandtech looks at Photoshop performance and Serverworks latest chipset in their latest article, ServerWorks HEsl: DDR bandwidth without DDR SDRAM
January 24, 2001
Scott "Damage" Wesson's detailed look at the Pentium 4 processor includes PS5bench scores. Intel's Pentium 4 processor - Radical chic You can skip right to the PS5bench results here.
July 29, 2000
The Tech Report's Scott "Damage" Wesson recently put together an article comparing the BX and VIA chipset. The BX box o' badness or the way of Via? has PS5bench results from systems based on the BX and VIA chipsets. For all you SMP freaks, the BX based system is based on dual processors running a 133MHz bus. You can skip right to the PS5bench results here.
July 25, 2000
PSbench makes the San Francisco Chronicle!
Came across this interesting article on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle's business secion:
Deconstructing Benchmarks
Just scroll down until you see "DECONSTRUCTING BENCHMARKS" in all caps. The author, Henry Norr, spent a fairly considerable amount of time testing with PSbench.
July 22, 2000
Thinking of upgrading your iMac? Accelerate Your Mac! has a table demonstrating the Photoshop Performance differences between the iMac rev A G3/233 and the same system with the iMac iMAXpowr G4 upgrade:
Review: Newer Tech's iMAXpowr G4/433 CPU Upgrade
June 9, 2000
Michael Breeden used PSbench to demonstrate the improved performance that can be the result a Formac Pro G3 450 ZIF CPU upgrade:
Review: Formac Pro G3 450 ZIF CPU upgrade
May 24, 2000
Michael Breeden used PSbench to compare Photoshop Performance on an Intel 1GHz PIII and a Motorola G4/500:
Photoshop 5.5 Performance: Apple G4/500 vs Pentium III 1GHz
April 6, 2000
Many have asked for them, so here they are. Newer versions of PS5bench with larger image sizes. Today's processors toss around 10MB images with ease, so I am releasing two additional versions:
PS5bench 1.11 (Intermediate) uses a 20MB image.
PS5ench 1.11 (Advanced) uses a 50MB image.
I will be releasing PS5bench 1.11 (Professional) which uses a 100MB image once I revise the submission process. To those of you who have submitted scores that I haven't published yet, don't worry, they're coming. Thanks for your patience.
Head over to the download section to download these latest versions.
April 2, 2000
Scott "Damage" Wesson over at The Tech Report has done a nice article putting two AMD Athlon systems through their paces. Round Four of the Athlon Decathlon is based on PS5bench.
For those of you that don't know, Scott Wesson was a major force in the success of one of the premiere Internet hardware sites, ARS Technica. If you don't recognize the name, I suggest you familiarize yourself with it. :)
February 19, 2000
PSbench will have a new home soon. One of the Internet's fastest network providers has offered free space for the PSbench website. PSbench will be moving to it's new home provided by Boot Networks soon.
January 21, 2000
Sven Negrassus of the German site Mac Info, has put an excellent chart of PSbench results online.
July 27, 1999
No word from Yahoo/Geocities on fixing their user database,
so I am now using a different mail script for the form.
The submission form is now operational. Thanks for your
patience.
July 23, 1999
I made a huge update to the PS5bench results. You
can look forward to more timely updates now. I
will be realeasing a few new versions of PSbench
as well. Look for an announcement on the main
page.
July 14, 1999
Thanks to Yahoo's bumbling takeover of GeoCities,
the submission form doesn't work. The username for
the form isn't recognized by the system. Hopefully,
they will get their act together and fix the database
soon.
May 11, 1999
Michael Breeden updated his Apple G3 Macs vs Old/Upgraded Macs vs PII/PIII PCs article with results from a PowerForce G3 466/311/1MB ZIF Upgrade clocked at 533Mhz with a 66Mhz bus.
Apple G3 Macs vs Old/Upgraded Macs vs PII/PIII PCs
March 8, 1999
MacIntouch posted an article on the Pentium III vs. PowerPC using PS5bench.
Pentium III vs. PowerPC: Photoshop Tests
January 15, 1999
Accelerate Your Mac! just added Yosemite G3 400Mhz results
to their PS5bench chart:
Yosemite G3 400Mhz PS5bench Results
November 5, 1998
Adobe has released the v5.02 update for both Platforms.
See the Download page for
a link to Adobe's site.
October 30, 1998
The PS5bench chart has been updated to reflect some
of the latest submissions. The Intel Celeron appears
to be a good chip for Photoshop, whereas the AMD
K6-2 doesn't appear to be a strong candiate for
Photoshop users.
August 30, 1998
The PS4bench Chart has been updated to reflect some
of the latest entries. Also, check out these two
articles that discuss Photoshop Performance:
PowerBook G3/250
vs
Gateway Solo PII/266 9100XL
PS5Bench Test Results
9600/400 vs Apple G3: Photoshop 5 Tests
Both are authored by Michael Breeden of Accelerate Your Mac.
August 25, 1998
Results for PS5bench are forthcoming as well as updates to the PS4bench chart of preliminary results. I have received a lot of requests for a discussion area, and have just installed UltimateBB for this purpose. I started out with two basic conferences for Photoshop 4 and Photoshop 5 peformance discussion. These areas are to be used to share information regarding Photoshop performance that resulted from using the benchmark. If you have suggestions for conferences, email me.
July 23, 1998
Under Results, I added some information on benchmarking Photoshop
using PS4bench'stm Test Image and two "real" images.
There are also, a few new submissions that have been added to the
table. The PII running at 448MHz (112MHz x 4) should replace the PII 400 as the fastest submission. The person who submitted the score reported disk activity, so I don't think enought memory was allocated since the machine has 64MB.
July 19, 1998
I put up the beta release of PS5bench after getting lots of
email requesting it. I had wanted to wait until the update
patch for 5.0.1 was released, but it's hard to say when that
will be. The results should give us a good picture of the
performance difference between Photoshop 4 and Photoshop 5.
PS5bench also marks the return of the Lighting Effects filter
that gave Macintosh users so much trouble in PS4bench. It
turns out that Photoshop actions weren't as cross-platform as
Adobe wanted them to be. Also, keep an eye out for the
upcoming release of PS4benchPRO, which will use a larger test
image. I look forward to hearing comments on PS5bench, and
seeing which machines faired best in the upgrade from
Photoshop 4 to Photoshop 5.
June 9, 1998
The concept for PS4bench came about after reading about a test
that was done by a well known periodical. They were trying to
compare Photoshop performance between a number of different
platforms. Unfortunately, the image size and memory settings
made it impossible for the operations to be performed
entirely in memory. In addition, the operations they chose
used only the default settings, or used operations that were
obviously optimized for MMX. I wanted to know the true
performance difference between the Macintosh and Wintel
platforms, as well as be able to make comparisons within each
platform. I had used the timing feature in Photoshop 4 to
do tests in the past, and figured it would be nice to have
a Photoshop action that included a number of relevant
Photoshop operations. So near the end of May, while taking
a break from studying for finals, I threw together an action
with 10 operations. The next day, I added 10 more operations
and put together a rudimentary web page. Since then I have
cleaned up the HTML a bit, and posted preliminary results.
It is my hope that PS4bench will grow into a tool that
Photoshop users can rely on for making decisions about which
machine is right for the level of Photoshop performance they
need. In addition, it is my goal for PS4bench to be a
reliable means of deciding which upgrades will give the best
performance increase. The Photoshop Action that is PS4bench
is still in development stage, but it works flawlessly.
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions and hope that
you will take the time to run the benchmark and submit your
results.
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