The best way to measure performance is using real programs. The problem, though, is creating a methodology using real software that provides accurate results. For Photoshop CS2 there is a methodology created by the folks at DriverHeaven that is very accurate. Their script applies a series of 12 filters to a sample image and we write down the time taken to each filter to run. At the end we have the results for each individual filter and we simply add them up to have the total time taken to run the 12 filters from DriverHeaven batch.

Check out the results below.

The results below are given in seconds, so the lower number the better.

The AMD CPU accomplished all the tasks in 276.55 seconds, while it took the Intel CPU 288.45 seconds to perform the same tests, i.e., it took he AMD processor 11.9 seconds less to complete the test.