We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing
benchmark. Using an early 2018 release of the Creative
Cloud version of Photoshop, we apply a series of 10
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image. We time each operation and then add up the
total execution time. As with Handbrake, lower times
are better here. The Photoshop test stresses CPU,
storage subsystem, and RAM, but it can also take
advantage of most GPUs to speed up the process of
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chips or cards may see a boost.
None of these laptops has powerful graphics processors,
since they’re not large enough to accommodate the
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exception of the much slower ThinkPad X380.
GRAPHICS TESTS
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3DMark, which measures relative graphics muscle by
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graphics that emphasize particles and lighting. We run
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Thanks to the
similar SSDs
and CPUs in
each of these
machines, they
all perform
within a few
hundred points
of one another.