Photoshop CS4 Retouch Artists Speed Test

A must-have tool for all photographers and graphics designers, Adobe Photoshop allows you to create wonders out of poorly taken photos. Retouch Artist Speed Test is used to test performance of processors. A small Action Script does a lot of layer and effect work on test image and it manages to produce some good multithreading load on processor cores.

Performance of Core i5 661 is far from pure breed quad Core i5 750, but it does come close to Phenom II X4 945 and Q9400 models.

Cinebench R10 64bit

3D rendering tools are also used to test CPU performance. Cinebench R10, Blender and POV Ray simulate real world performance with integrated benchmark scripts. 3D rendering has been Intel's home ground for a long time, but AMD is making progress with its new models and is not that far behind Intel's processors.

In all three tests Core i5 661 really can't compete with real quads in these benchmarks, but it does beat triple core Phenom which is a good thing for a dual core CPU. Hyper Threading really saves the day here.

Blender 2.49

POV Ray 3.7b 64bit