First with dual 2.0 G5 benchmarks...

[Darth Mole]

Okay, found out today that my duallie might be here in as little as a week's time. I shall, of course, waste not one jot of one second posting the usual LW benchmarks for your delectation.

However, is there anyone out there who is due one even quicker? I'm as eager as anyone to see whether the G5 is as good as the Jobs' Reality Distortion Field would have us believe.

(S'pose I'd better buy some more RAM, too)

[skippy]

How much RAM are you starting out with??

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[eblu]

http://www.chaosmint.com/benchmarks/powermac-g5-ps7bench/

this seems to indicate that a 1.6 GHZ g5 is very acceptable when compared with a 3GHZ Athalon and a 3 GHZ P4... with regards to "real world" Photoshop filters. A 1.6 GHZ actually beat em all out in a few tests, and kept up in just about every other test. Overall it placed Second. This machine appears to be very competitive despite huge Megahertz disparities, a not so optimized Photoshop, and the lesser System architecture (compared with the dual 2.0). It suggests the dual 2.0 could be what is claimed.

[wapangy]

I should have my 1.8 (1.5 gigs of ram) in about the same time frame, I'll also post benchmarks. I just want to see if newtek will update lightwave for the G5, I'm worried it might be so fast until they do.

[Darth Mole]

I ordered the base level of RAM - Apple charge the earth! (And let's not get into the whole 'official versus unofficial RAM suppliers' argument!).

I saw the PS7 benchmarks, but LW rendering speed is what we're all after. That's why I've gone for the top-end machine, anyway.

I've managed to get the machine on priority shipping, so I'm hoping to get it even sooner, now!

[mlinde]

Originally posted by eblu
This machine appears to be very competitive despite huge Megahertz disparities, a not so optimized Photoshop...

The test ran with all the optimization Photoshop gets until at least the next full point upgrade. Not raining on any parade, but the "optimized" version of Photoshop is out, as far as it will go without $$$

[eblu]

the disk speed, the FSB, the dual Floating point units per processor... one thing is for certain, its going to wipe up the floor with the g4 in 3d rendering.

[eblu]

[i] Not raining on any parade, but the "optimized" version of Photoshop is out, as far as it will go without $$$ [/B]

Standard Operating procedures. gotta pay for the RnD somehow right?

[Darth Mole]

We'll be getting PS8 in the office any day now; no idea if there's any more G5 optimisation or not. I sort of doubt it...

Maybe 8.5?

[mlinde]

Originally posted by Darth Mole
We'll be getting PS8 in the office any day now; no idea if there's any more G5 optimisation or not. I sort of doubt it...

Maybe 8.5?

Um, Adobe isn't even listing PS 8 as released?

[erk]

It amazes me that everyone seems to love Photoshop benchmarks to demonstrate CPU power, where only a handfull of common operations take more than a few seconds anyway.

Lightwave and other rendering programs are a much better cross platform test of computing power, as rendering is a long CPU intensive task that can take hours or even days. Perhaps someone should post to these folk doing the Photoshop benchmarks, and tell them how to download the demo version of Lightwave and run some tests.

[mlinde]

Originally posted by erk
It amazes me that everyone seems to love Photoshop benchmarks to demonstrate CPU power, where only a handfull of common operations take more than a few seconds anyway.

Lightwave and other rendering programs are a much better cross platform test of computing power, as rendering is a long CPU intensive task that can take hours or even days. Perhaps someone should post to these folk doing the Photoshop benchmarks, and tell them how to download the demo version of Lightwave and run some tests.

The reason Photoshop is used as a benchmark is sheer volume. For every 3D animator there are probably 10 photoshop users. And I'm not talking Lightwave users to PS users, I'm talking ALL 3D applications. So what if our fractionally small group can better demonstrate the capabilities of a processor with benchmarked rendering? Most people can't relate to it, but they can relate to Photoshop.

[Beamtracer]

I don't think I'll ever believe another benchmark again! :(

[Darth Mole]

Photoshop 8: I'm pretty sure there's an early (but finished) version headed our way - power of the press and all that.

Should be a big Adobe announcement in the next few weeks.

[Ge4-ce]

Originally posted by Beamtracer
I don't think I'll ever believe another benchmark again! :(


Beam,.. that not because of me.. isn't it?

[Darth Mole]

Off-topic, but a heads-up on PS 8.0. Adobe will be announcing it a month from today for an on-sale in Nov, probably.

However, Macworld mag has blown the gaff, and done a big preview - Adobe are gonna be livid.

Headlines are:
Live realtime histogram
Colour-matching between images
Apply combinations of filters in preview mode ('Filter Gallery')
Support for video images (non-square pixels)
Natural media/image stamp brushes
New suite of digial photo filters
New adjustment layer tools

No word on system optimsation, though this was a beta, presumably not running on G5 hardware.

[silvergun]

lol you can't run lightwave for benchmark tests because newtek really can't be bothered to do a good mac version, it's just a crap pc port and youll be pissed off whe nyou do the tests and lightwave fails to find the plugins

[Darth Mole]

Originally posted by silvergun
lol you can't run lightwave for benchmark tests because newtek really can't be bothered to do a good mac version, it's just a crap pc port and youll be pissed off whe nyou do the tests and lightwave fails to find the plugins

Well, since there's only one version of LW on Mac, I don't quite see how we can do LW benchmarks using anything else :confused:

At least we'll be able to see how the G5 compares to the G4 and G3.

The benchmark scenes that come with LW don't access any plug-ins.

[kite]

First with dual 2.0 G5 benchmarks...

Oh no:
07-01-2003 (http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?threadid=7542)

:D