Ace's Hardware heeft een CPU buyers guide bij elkaar geknutseld, met info over welke CPU je voor welk werk (photo editing, 3D modelling, video editing, database applicaties enz.) het beste kunt nemen. Best wel goeie info. Hier heb je een stuk over photo editing / desktop publishing:
Huge amounts of memory and large, fast caches makes these creative applications fly. On the contrary to what the Intel PIII evaluation benchmarks let you think, photo editing mostly integer intensive not FPU intensive. Only a few filters are really FPU intensive, and these filters are shown in a lot of photoshop benchmarks. I used photoshop 4.0, and recorded the time that some filters took. You should combine this with the photoshop 5.02 results from Anand to get the whole truth.Photoshop 5.02 benefits from ISSE because ISSE contains better MMX instructions, not because it is always FPU intensive. Photoshop 4.02 benchmarks show that photo editing needs integer power combined with large caches.
