1. Introduction2. Packaging and Bundle3. The Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Motherboard4. The BIOS5. Testing Methodology and Overclocking6. 3DMark Vantage7. Super Pi8. SiSoft Sandra 20109. Cinebench10. KitGuru Photoshop Benchmark V1 (4)11. Media Encoding: Cyberlink Espresso 712. Grand Theft Auto 4: EFLC13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

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	OC @ 4.00GHZ
1. Texturiser (1)	1.9	1.4
2. CMYK	2.2	1.5
3. RGB	2.3	1.6
4. Ink Outlines	38.9	29.3
5. Dust & Stratches	4.0	3.6
6. Watercolor	40.0	36.2
7. Texturiser (2)	1.9	1.6
8. Stained Glass	28.3	24.1
9. Mosiac Tiles	15.9	13.0
10. Extrude	185.1	176.3
11. Rough Pastels	14.5	11.9
12. Smart Blur	113.5	109.3
13. Underpainting	41.0	36.1
14. Mosiac Tiles	16.2	13.4
15. Spherize	3.3	3.0
16. Palette Knife	29.6	25.7
17. Sponge	56.7	54.9
18. Smudge Stick	8.3	7.6
Total	603.6	811.7

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.

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