For as long as I can remember enthusiasts around the world have been keen to see how their systems perform with many commercially available benchmarks from such companies as
Futuremark. While these applications are extremely useful to a wide audience sometimes it can be helpful to focus on a ‘real world’ application which many of us use on an almost daily basis.
You can get the KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark 1(4) here. Please note lower times are better as this means less time is taken by the system to process the commands.
Stock
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OC @ 4.00GHZ
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1. Texturiser (1)
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1.9
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1.4
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2. CMYK
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2.2
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1.5
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3. RGB
|
2.3
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1.6
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4. Ink Outlines
|
38.9
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29.3
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5. Dust &
Stratches |
4.0
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3.6
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6. Watercolor
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40.0
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36.2
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7. Texturiser (2)
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1.9
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1.6
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8. Stained Glass
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28.3
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24.1
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9. Mosiac Tiles
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15.9
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13.0
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10. Extrude
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185.1
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176.3
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11. Rough Pastels
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14.5
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11.9
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12. Smart Blur
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113.5
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109.3
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13. Underpainting
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41.0
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36.1
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14. Mosiac Tiles
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16.2
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13.4
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15. Spherize
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3.3
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3.0
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16. Palette Knife
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29.6
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25.7
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17. Sponge
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56.7
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54.9
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18. Smudge Stick
|
8.3
|
7.6
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Total
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603.6
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811.7
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We were a little disappointed with the scores in the Photoshop benchmark as they fell a little short of what we were expecting. There was a noticeable performance improvement when overclocked, though.
Seems like a good value product to be honest. I like their boards, bioses are normally really good.
60 quid for a board like this is much lower than competiting products from say Zotac. im well impressed with this tbh. shame I have no intention of building a media pc right now.
Its always an issue with the smaller PCB’s. I know zardon had to modifiy the zotac board to fit the arctic cooling cooler onto it in his review. Its always going to be a compromise. someting like the watercooling all in ones you used in this are ideal, if the chassis can accommodate them.
Pretty good board, i think if I was building a media pc tho id opt for a bigger chassis to take a full sized board. these are limited.