Benchmark your PC using Photoshop

get out your stopwatch...

Apple claims a powermac is 90% faster than a PC in photoshop while www.robgalbraith.com says the opposite. post YOUR results and we'll see.

download the Bill of Rights.jpg

I know they are already jpeg so some of these tests might seem a little wack-

Photoshop tests:
Bill of Rights: 8636x9096 us_bill_of_rights.jpg

1. open the file- 4.12 seconds
2. Convert jpg to tiff (save as)- 18.45 seconds.
3. rotate 180- 25.55 seconds
4. apply gaus. blur 2.0px- 19.09 seconds
5. sharpen image- 14.20 seconds
6. Neon glow: glow size: 5, brightness: 15- 34.31 seconds
7. resize to 1024x1256- 10.3 seconds.

total time: 126.02 seconds

tests were done by going back to the original .jpg before the next test was conducted.

what do you use to calculate time?
edit: o stopwatch:D

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Apple claims a powermac is 90% faster than a PC in photoshop while www.robgalbraith.com says the opposite. post YOUR results and we'll see.

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I haven't heard a claim like that from Apple for some time and I don't see it in the article. Its probably 5 years since that was true in even the loosest sense of the word. What apple used to do was base that claim off a SINGLE test. They'd run 10 different tests and if the apple lost in 9 of 10 they'd say the apple was faster then put some fine print at the bottom of the page to say what it was faster at.

Apple has always had crap like this on their site-

http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html

Until 2 days ago it was 90%.

HA!! Mac still amazes me on how much "faster" they claim to be.. i mean lol they compared their G4 against a Dell 3Ghz? I dont think Dell even sells a 3 ghz yet.. :p