We run two scripted Photoshop benchmarks: one that is threaded and fully taxes our CPUs and another that leverages OpenCL acceleration to offload work to our graphics cards.
We re-ran this test a number of times, and were quite surprised to see the GeForce GTX 770 outpace the GeForce GTX 680 by a factor of two in the OpenCL test. This is especially strange when you consider that these products utilize the same GPU with a slightly different clock rate. Perhaps the new 326.80 beta driver is responsible for some of the disparity. Regardless, the results are unexpected.
There isn't much difference between the two platforms in the rest of the Adobe suite; these tests are not optimized for OpenCL acceleration, and instead run across the CPU cores with varying degrees of threading. Adobe Acrobat, for example, is single-threaded. Premiere Pro is more thoroughly optimized for multi-core chips. After Effects tends to fall somewhere in the middle.
Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.
