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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
Apple eMac G4/700	256k On Chip	0MB	621
Apple iMac G4/700 15"	256k On Chip	0MB	682
iMac 1GHz (167MHz Bus, 768MB RAM, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	1622
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz Bus, 512MB RAM, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	1200
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
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	300
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.3GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	287
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.4GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	273

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.