Photoshop CS5 Performance

Heavy Photoshop use can result in a large number of disk accesses when Photoshop is processing its scratch file. In this test, we measured the time it took Photoshop CS5 to open ten 21 MP images at the same time and then process each image one by one. The operations performed on each image were crop, move, auto levels, resize to 1024x768, and save for the web (862 MB transferred, 79% write).

Crysis Level Loading

Crysis is well known for its long level-loading times. We disabled the rendering path of the engine to take the graphics card out of the equation and measured the time it took to load the level "island" (188 MB transferred, 0.5% write).