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Adobe Photoshop 8 (Creative Suite) - 50MB Action	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Time, Sec.

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	902
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	576
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	264
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	253
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	176

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	561
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	484
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	487
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	451
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	446
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	389
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	390
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	394
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	374
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	352
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	357
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	362

Time to execute a 50MB Action Script using Adobe Photoshop 8. Shorter bars are faster. For more information about testing using Adobe Photoshop, see this article I wrote previously.