Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1
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This is also the first time I have used Photoshop as a benchmark. Using its multi-threaded capabilities, it is easy to show the dual-Athlon system out way ahead. In this test, lower is better, as the graph you see represents the total number of second it took the system to finish all the completed tasks. Here, the Tyan Thunder board shows a 40% improvement over a faster clocked Athlon Thunderbird.
Here are the individual scores:
| Test | Tyan Thunder K7 | Epox 8K7A |
| Rotate 90 | 6.6 | 10.1 |
| Rotate 9 | 15.4 | 17.2 |
| Rotate .9 | 13.2 | 17 |
| Gaussian Blur 1 pixel | 10.9 | 18.6 |
| Gaussian Blur 3.7 pixels | 8.7 | 15.9 |
| Gaussian Blur 85 pixels | 10.7 | 12.7 |
| 50%, 1 pixel, 0 level Unsharp Mask | 5.8 | 6.2 |
| 50%, 3.7 pixel, 0 level Unsharp Mask | 8.8 | 10 |
| 50%, 10 pixel, 5 level Unsharp Mask | 8.6 | 10.1 |
| Despeckle | 7.1 | 8.1 |
| RGB-CMYK | 14.6 | 21.9 |
| Reduce Size 60% | 2.4 | 4.9 |
| Lens Flare | 12.8 | 16.8 |
| Color Halftone | 18.2 | 19.9 |
| NTSC Colors | 8.6 | 8.6 |
| Accented Edges Brush Strokes | 22.4 | 24.5 |
| Pointillize | 22.2 | 30.3 |
| Water Color | 44.2 | 51.2 |
| Polar Coordinates | 15.9 | 25 |
| Radial Blur | 56.8 | 96.6 |
| Lighting Effects | 6.2 | 12.4 |
