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

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/466MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	705
PM G4/2x 533MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	474
PM G4/667MHz Digital Audio	0MB	1MB DDR SDRAM	571
iMac 1GHz (167MHz, 768MB, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	497
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz, 512MB, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	409
PM G4/2x 1.25GHz FW800	256k	2x1MB DDR SDRAM	243
PM G4/2x 1.42GHz FW800	256k	2x2MB DDR SDRAM	217
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	173

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	477
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	478
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	412
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	407
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	362
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	350
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	349
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	340
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	330
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz @ 1.467GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	322
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	324
PowerLogix PowerForce Dual G4 2x1.2GHz (7457)	512k x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	259

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.