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PIII or Athlon for photoshop??

Price/Performance-wise, Intel is a tough buy. Though it may change soon with the recently announced price cuts. We'll have to wait and see.
 
Biggs- I realize there are price considerations too, but as far as absolute performance goes?? Then I can weigh the performance vs. the price.

 
Think of it this way. As of this time, the 1.2 Ghz Thunderbird smokes the beegeezus out of the Pentium !!! 1 Ghz for both price[/i] and performance and it still has some cpu cycles left for coffee during Sundays! 😉 The choice shouldn't be difficult now. 🙂
 
Putting on asbestus suit. As far as performance goes with photoshop it is the one program that works best on an apple. At least that is what their PR dept keeps saying.

Glp1
 
Photoshop is supposed to be optimised to work with the PIII SSE code extensions.

But I'm not quite sure how much performance gain you will see from this.
 
glp1-That may or may not be true (Apple marketing never lies, does it??) It is simply not an option as this machine will do things other than Photoshop.

biggs- the performance issue--any benchmarks specific to photoshop anywhere? that's what i'd really like to see. i'm trying to make a recommendation to someone, and it's hard to base that on hearsay.
 
Look over here and you will see the 1.2 Ghz Thunderbird smokes the Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz on Winstone 2000 which uses Photoshop as a part of it's process.
 
I have not seen any direct comparison benchmarks using only Photoshop to compare the latest and greatest from Intel and Athlon, but I am sure that they are both extremely close, and the Athlon will perform better on almost every task. I've got a dual PIII rig, but unless the state of the processor world has changed dramatically by the time I upgrade, I'll be going AMD
 
I use Photoshop everyday and is part of my job. Athlons are definately very fast, and for the price, you could easily afford a 1.2Ghz that would definately out perform a P3 1Ghz counterpart in Photoshop. One thing for sure, a 1Ghz computer is so fast, you can't see a difference in Photoshop between the 2 systems. It won't affect your production.

If your thinking about 3D modelling, Athlon is the only logical way. There's definately a huge difference when it comes to FPU(3D rendering).
 
sir fredrick,

Can I ask your experience with the dual rig? What aspects of Photoshop benefit?

The machine I'm looking at upgrading gets used for photo touchups, layouts, unsharp mask and printing (lots of printing). This with fairly large images (100 MB +) often combined onto 1 page.

Would these tasks benefit greatly from dual processors?
 
Dual processors really only benefit CERTAIN filters and transformations. MOST of the plugins and filters just use one proc. Also, only SOME of the filters and plugins use intel's SSE extentions.
 
I'm thinking that a P3 and an Athlon at the same speed the P3 would probably be as fast or faster, maybe not.. However, Athlons are offered a 1.2 vs. 1.0 .... so Athlon overall for sure...
 
You won't notice to much of a difference between the two processors. Instead I would spend my money on lots of ram for the memory hungry Photoshop. 256+ at least
 
As another PS user, I would agree that even though PS is optimized for SSE/SSE2 (and not 3DNOW), a 1.1 or 1.2GHz T-bird will outperform a 1GHz P3 (for similarly configured systems). On the other hand, if price is no object, why not go for a 1.5GHZ P4 with RDRAM?

In any case, considering the size files you will be working with - outputing large prints, I recommend 512MB of (whichever) RAM, fast HDs (2 so you can use 1 as a scratch disk), and Win2K for its stability and better memory management.
 
Right now, the system is a PIII-500, Asus P3B-F, 768 megs PC133, 2x Maxtor 30GB 7200 RPM drives.

So, I would like to keep the existing memory, and just upgrade the mobo/processor.
 
Somthing to keep in mind about Macs is that the G3's make great Linux machines. I've set up my gf's imac with a MacOS partition for DTP stuff and yellow-dog for net stuff and star office. It's a pretty sweet setup, actualy.
 
Z24, I must admit that I don't use photoshop on my computer, however only filters which support dual procs will benefit greatly (though those will benefit GREATLY), the others will probably see a small boost since you can dedicate a whole processor just to that and avoid the system overhead. OTOH, if you're doing something that would normally take several hours and leave your computer unusable in the meantime, you can dedicate one processor to that and use your computer normally w/ the other one. I don't know what kind of rendering you do, but if you're concerned with who's the fastest for photoshop at 1GHz+ I assume you're doing some pretty intensive tasks since the normal difference between the two is minimal (1-2 seconds), and probably wouldn't be noticed too much.
 
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