Results: Desktop Publishing And Multimedia
Adobe CC
We’re using Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, all of which are included in Adobe’s CC package, as well as PCMark 8 Professional to control the workloads. The details of each benchmark are available in the table below.
The storage subsystem and background processes influence the benchmark results, since they include opening and closing each application, as well as loading and saving files. For this reason, PCMark 8 natively reports back the geometric mean of three benchmark trials (GEOMEAN).
In stark contrast to our other benchmarks, we noticed significant performance differences between Windows 8.1 and 10. Consequently, wherever these differences were significantly above the margin of measurement error, we included both results in our graphs. And of course, we're using the most up-to-date drivers available for each platform.
Adobe Photoshop Light
| Header Cell - Column 0 | Pictures | File Size | Picture Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | 14 | 3.9 to 17.6MB | 2500x16776048x4032 |
| Target | 14 | 388 to 778KB | 1200x800 |
| Actions | - Start Application and Load Data File - Change Color Balance - Add Auto Level - Adjust Shadows and Glare - Downscale with Bicubic Interpolation - Compute and Add Unsharp Mask - Save Results in Files and Close Application |
Adobe Photoshop Heavy
| Header Cell - Column 0 | File Size | Picture Size | Resolution | Layer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source PSD | 113MB | 5184x7744 | 300 DPI | 1 |
| PSD Export | 1320MB | 7000x10457 | 300 DPI | 4 |
| TIFF Export | 476MB | 7000x10457 | 300 DPI | None |
| JPEG Export | 177KB | 1000x1494 | 300 DPI | None |
| Actions | - Start Application and Load PSD File - Upscale with Bicubic Interpolation - Change Color Depth to 16-bit per Channel - Create Color Range and Copy to New Layer - Merge Two Picture Layers and Insert as New Layer in Front - Compute and Add Unsharp Mask to this Foreground Layer - Create and Delete Elliptical Selection in this Layer - Merge All Layers into One Layer - Add Gaussian Blur - Add and Delete Gradient Mask - Decrease Layer's Opacity - Export File to PSD, TIFF and JPEG - Flatten Picture and Downscale with Bicubic Interpolation - Compute and Add Unsharp Mask - Export as JPEG and Close Application |
Adobe InDesign
| Header Cell - Column 0 | File Size | Pages | Pictures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source File | 385MB | 40 | 42 |
| Target File | 378MB | 40 | 40 |
| PDF Export | 64.7MB | 40 | 40 |
| Actions | - Start Application and Load Data File - Change Picture Size and Reposition Pictures - Add Colored Rectangle as Decorative Element - Change Border Settings - Insert Text - Save Document as New File - Export as PDF File and Close Application |
Adobe Illustrator
| Header Cell - Column 0 | Original File | Saved File | Exported PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| File | 733KB | 6.2MB | 5.6MB |
| Actions | - Start Application and Load Data File - Change Picture Sizes and Reposition Pictures - Add Translucent Filled Rectangle for Color Effect - Vectorize Pictures in Document - Add Text Fields, Lines, Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars and Spines - Save the Documents in a New File - Export as PDF - Close Document and Application |
Intel’s Skylake CPUs show much-improved performance under Windows 10 in some applications compared to both their competitors and their own Windows 8.1 performance. We’ll certainly look into this more in the future, since some of the gains are massive. Why AMD’s A10-7850K does so well with Illustrator also remains a mystery to us. We repeated the benchmark with the same results.
