AUGUST 2019 PCWorld 35PHOTOSHOP
PERFORMANCE
We don’t normally use Adobe’s popular
Photoshop as a performance test because,
well, you don’t normally net the same
dividends you do with modelling or video
encoding. It’s an application that’s mostly
balanced on single-threaded performance.
With the increased IPC and slightly higher
clocks of the Ryzen 9 3900X, we did want to
see if it could hang with the mighty Core i9’s
high clocks. For this test, we used Puget
System’s free Photoshop benchmark script
and selected the Photoshop Extended script
(go.pcworld.com/pugt) run. The Ryzen 9
3900X’s score of 992 is very respectable and
about 6 percent faster than the Core
i9-9900K’s overall score of 932.
COMPRESSION TESTS
Moving on to compression, we’ll kick it off
with RARlab’s WinRAR 5.71. The program
features a built-in benchmark, which we first
run in single-threaded mode. The results
show a big boost for the new Ryzen 3000
chips over the Ryzen 2000 chips, as the new
4.6GHz boost Ryzen 9 3900X draws fairly
close to the 5GHz Core i9-9900K.
Things go sideways when we shift to
multi-threaded performance. While the Ryzen
9 3900X actually turns in a decent result, it
falls slightly behind the Core i9-9900K
despite having four more cores.
We’ll note that WinRAR typically hasn’t
liked Ryzen-based CPUs (nor Intel’s Skylake X
chips either). This result is a pretty decent
uptick for the Ryzen 9 3900X overall, just not
the victory we expected after seeing how well
the CPU performed elsewhere.
The good news for Ryzen 9 3900X is its
performance in the far more popular 7Zip is
pretty damn good.
The test reports compression performance
and decompression performance. The app’s
creator has said compression speed is mostly
tilted to memory latency as well as data cache/Ryzen 9 3900X Zen 2 (12/24)Core i9-9900K Cofee
Lake R (8/16)
Ryzen 7 2700X Zen+
(8/16)Puget Systems Photoshop CC 2019
18.10 beta benchmark GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FELONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE992932807We exported our Premiere project using the Premiere’s HEVC encoder, which is licensed from MainConcept.