Image Editing w/ Photoshop

The latest Photoshop 6.0.1 patch supposedly provided enhancements for Intel's NetBurst architecture, making it the perfect addition to our suite of tests.  Unfortunately this patch also caused our Dual Pentium III 933 platform to fail the Polar Coordinates conversion test which kept that system out of the final score.

Dual Intel Xeon 1.7GHz
Single Intel Xeon 1.7GHz
Dual Intel Pentium III 933MHz
Single Athlon-C 1.2GHz
Filter/Action
Time to Complete in Seconds (lower is better)
Rotate 90
7.9
7.8
6.8
10.0
Rotate 9
10.9
13.8
10.7
13.5
Rotate .9
11.1
13.0
10.3
12.4
Gaussian Blur 1 pixel
6.3
6.6
5.1
7.0
Gaussian Blur 3.7 pixels
10.5
11.8
11.4
15.2
Gaussian Blur 85 pixels
10.9
12.6
12.4
16.7
50%, 1 pixel, 0 level Unsharp Mask
4.4
5.3
4.4
5.5
50%, 3.7 pixel, 0 level Unsharp Mask
10.7
12.2
11.7
16.5
50%, 10 pixel, 5 level Unsharp Mask
10.9
12.7
11.9
16.1
Despeckle
6.7
9.5
7.1
8.1
RGB-CMYK
26.6
26.5
26.7
21.9
Reduce Size 60%
2.8
3.3
3.2
4.1
Lens Flare
12.6
16.0
14.4
17.6
Color Halftone
30.1
30.8
3.3
19.1
NTSC Colors
8.6
8.4
9.4
8.5
Accented Edges Brush Strokes
25.1
25.7
28.3
24.7
Pointillize
26.2
42.1
29.7
43.6
Water Color
54.1
54.4
58.5
48.9
Polar Coordinates
17.3
28.1
Failed
24.9
Radial Blur
57.5
101.8
70.2
108.1
Lighting Effects
6.4
7.7
8.4
15.7

Here the dual Xeon manages to complete all of the filters in less than 80% of the time of the single processor Xeon.  Another interesting note worth making is that with the new 6.0.1 patch, the Athlon-C 1.2GHz processor is just about as fast as a Pentium 4/Xeon at 1.7GHz. 

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