Photography Benchmarks

With Capture One, the dual Opteron 252 proves to be the fastest system available but the Athlon 64 X2 is still a superstar. High-bandwidth/high latency RAM and low-latency /standard bandwidth RAM appeared to perform similarly.



With Bibble, the more cores you can throw at the application, the faster it gets. Again the benefit from low-latency RAM is split. The dual core Athlon64 X2 is again shows impressive results.



Like Bibble, Noise Ninja is capable of taking advantage of 4 CPU cores and so the dual Opteron 275’s are at the top of the pack.






Photoshop’s RAW processing engine does not appear to take advantage of multiple CPUs as well as Bibble does. Nevetheless, it is interesting to see that the Athlon64 X2 4200+ is notably faster than the dual Opteron 252, despite the Opteron having a faster core clock speed and significantly higher bandwidth. Although we clearly need to run more tests, it may be that the single core Athlons are CPU-bound tests whereas the Athlon64 X2 4200+ represents a memory bound test in which low-latency is valued.