Image processing

Photoshop

This test is also somewhat disk-controller limited on the AMD platform, it seems. The Core i5-750 struggles a little bit here, curiously enough, compared to the typically slower Core 2 Quad processors.

The Panorama Factory photo stitching
The Panorama Factory handles an increasingly popular image processing task: joining together multiple images to create a wide-aspect panorama. This task can require lots of memory and can be computationally intensive, so The Panorama Factory comes in a 64-bit version that's widely multithreaded. I asked it to join four pictures, each eight megapixels, into a glorious panorama of the interior of Damage Labs.

In the past, we've added up the time taken by all of the different elements of the panorama creation wizard and reported that number, along with detailed results for each operation. However, doing so is incredibly data-input-intensive, and the process tends to be dominated by a single, long operation: the stitch. So this time around, we've simply decided to report the stitch time, which saves us a lot of work and still gets at the heart of the matter.

Rough day for the Phenom II, eh?