On the Quad-Core G5, Photoshop CS2 actually ran our benchmarks 2% to 5% faster than CS3. That second stat is especially interesting when you take into account the Mac Pro's 20% faster clock speed.ģ. However, it is only 10% faster running the Retouch Artists' test (20 History States).
The Mac Pro running CS3 is 86% faster than the Quad-Core G5 running our MP6 test (20 History States). The MP6 test ran 41% faster and the Retouch Artists test ran 70% faster than CS2. CS3 is much improved in overall speed now that it runs in native mode on the Mac Pro. "MP6" is an action file that takes a 100MB sample file and performs six multi-processor aware actions (Rotate, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Lighting Effects, Lens Flare, Radial Blur) - no UNDO after each.ġ.
Other performance critical settings included 6 cache levels and memory cache set to 100% (or approximately 3GB) for both CS2 and CS3. We also ran with it set to 1 which means no history is saved, which is the setting requested by the guys at Retouch Artists who created one of the benchmarks we used. History States = Parameter to define the number of levels of undo. Quad G5 = Apple Quad-Core G5/2.5GHz (8GB of RAM, Radeon X1900, MaXLine Pro 500G))ĬS3 = Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta (native Intel support - Universal Binary) Mac Pro = Apple Mac Pro 3GHz (8GB of RAM, Radeon X1900 XT, MaXLine Pro 500G)) And we wanted to know if it provides any improvement to the Quad-Core G5 Power Mac 2.5GHz. We wanted to know if the Universal Binary Photoshop CS3 Beta would "supercharge" the Mac Pro 3GHz (Quad).