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12/7/00 Thursday's News: Story DetailReturn to News Page
Virtual PC 4.0 vs 3.0 vs PII 350Mhz Photoshop Test Results:
Last Updated: 12/7/2000, 9:29 AM
Yesterday's news had Norton SI and Wintune test results comparing VPC v4 to v3, which noted impressive gains (SI scores tripled on a PB G3/500, G4 system also showed large gains in CPU and Memory performance). To see how VPC performed in applications, Jeffrey sent results of tests in Photoshop 5.5 in Virtual PC v4 vs v3 and included comparisons to a 350MHz Pentium II PC. Granted nobody would use VPC for Photoshop, but the results are interesting and real world rather than just benchmarks. The overall gain from VPC 4 over version 3 was nearly double.

Note: VPC 3.03 and V4.0 Used the same System, a B&W G3 with 550MHz G4 CPU upgrade (overclocked G4/500) with Rage128 graphics card. 128MB of RAM was allocated to VPC. Both VPC 4 and 3 used Windows 98 SE (second edition).

The Gain Column means how much faster VPC 4 was than VPC 3.

PS5Bench Test
(10MB Image File)

Virtual PC
v3.0.3A

Virtual PC
v4.0

Gain
(VPC 4.0
vs VPC 3.x)

Intel PII
350MHz PII
512KB L2
100MHz Bus
192MB

Rotate 90

4.9

4.9

0.00x

0.8

Rotate 9

17.7

10.5

1.69x

3.9

Rotate .9

15.7

9.5

1.65x

3.7

Gaussian Blur 1

12.7

6.0

2.12x

1.6

Gaussian Blur 3.7

17.3

9.6

1.80x

4.1

Gaussian Blur 85

61.2

22.5

2.72x

6.8

Unsharp 50/1/0

16.3

6.7

2.43x

2.0

Unsharp 50/3/7/0

21.2

10.2

2.08x

4.3

Unsharp 50/10/5

22.6

11.3

2.00x

4.9

Despeckle

17.7

8.1

2.19x

4.9

RGB-CMYK

24.8

14.9

1.66x

9.1

Reduce Size 60%

9.5

5.0

1.90x

1.6

Lens Flare

25.0

15.8

1.58x

7.1

Color Halftone

126.1

106.5

1.18x

16.3

NTSC Colors

84.7

38.9

2.17x

8.5

Accented Edges

110.2

52.8

2.09x

20.9

Pointillize

100.6

37.1

2.71x

24.8

Water Color

201.0

100.7

2.00x

46.5

Polar Coordinates

55.4

36.3

1.53x

18.3

Radial Blur

228.5

119.6

1.91x

68.8

Lighting Effects

48.3

26.4

1.83x

14.3

PS5Bench Index
(time to complete)

1221.4
Seconds

653.3
Seconds

1.87x
Average

273.2
Seconds

System

Virtual PC
v3.0.3A

Virtual PC
v4.0

Gain
(VPC 4 vs 3)

Intel PII
350MHz PII
512KB L2
100MHz Bus
192MB


For results of Norton SI and Wintune tests noted yesterday, see this page. (These tests results also added to the Tips & Misc articles page Software section.)

For Photoshop 5.5 Performance (Native MacOS) from G4/500 (single CPU), dual G4/450 and 1GHz Pentium III, see my previous Photoshop 5.5 performance tests page.

 
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