Last calendar month , in the first part of my three - part report ( parts two and three ) on the new Mac Pro , I reported on Photoshop ’s carrying into action in Rosetta — both subjectively and objectively ( on page three ) via a test of the Liquify filter .
I ’ve used this same tryout on other political machine — both Windows XP and Macs — so it ’s become my personal benchmark . And now that I have the Universal beta of Photoshop to expend , I thought I ’d update my result for the Universal version . As you look at these results , please keep in thinker they ’re my own personal handiwork , and not that of the Macworld Labs — here are the prescribed benchmark results .
As backcloth for those who have n’t say the anterior article , I lend oneself a 54 megabit saved Liquify mesh to the 3,000 - by-2,400 pixel version ofthis imageof a blank space shuttle launch . It ’s an intensive filter , and takes a meaningful amount of time to render , so any errors in my hired man timing do n’t have a huge shock on the consequence .
And verbalise of results , how did the Mac Pro running the CS3 genus Beta do ? Take a look …
PHOTOSHOP LIQUIFY FILTER TEST
test by Rob Griffiths , very unofficial !
As you’re able to see , the Mac Pro head for the hills the CS3 beta was nearly twice as tight as its nearest competition , the Dual G5 , also running the CS3 beta . From this simple experiment , it seems there was some oecumenical improvement in the Liquify filter ’s performance ( as mark by a three - second improvement on the Dual G5 ) . But the big carrying into action profit is obvious from the Mac Pro ’s mark — it ran this test fundamentally twice as fast as it did under Rosetta .
Macworld Labs has the official Photoshop ’s carrying into action outcome , but from where I sit down , it ’s looking like the native interlingual rendition of Photoshop is work to run just fine on the Intel - power Macs .
