Puget Systems offers a number of different benchmarks to test your computer with automated real-world tasks in Adobe Creative Cloud. Some of them (like the one for Premiere Pro) are a bit complicated and may take some time to get started. But one of them – PugetBench for Photoshop – is very simple.
PugetBench for Photoshop measures how quickly your computer can perform a variety of tasks, including refining masks and gradients, as well as filtering tasks such as lens correction and noise reduction. Unlike some of Puget’s other benchmarks, the Photoshop benchmark requires only one quick setup plugin.
Note: This benchmark is not yet supported for the M1 native version of Photoshop.
- In the Creative Cloud Desktop app, go to Stock and Marketplace> Plugins.
- Look for PugetBench for Photoshop and click Install. Make sure you close Photoshop before installing the plug-in.
- Once the add-on is installed, open Photoshop.
- Go to Window> Extensions> PugetBench for Photoshop. Enter your license code (if you have one) in the pop-up window and configure any other settings you want.
- Click Run Benchmark.
PugetBench will take it from here. Make sure you do not move the mouse while it is running.
Here is the menu. And here’s what it looks like while working.
Once the benchmark is complete, your results will pop up in the PugetBench window. They will also be uploaded to the public PugetBench database (unless you have a paid version). On this page you can compare your results with those received by other computers. Each system has an overall result, as well as specific GPU results and filtering tasks.
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