With CS3, memory is going to continue to be an issue. Photoshop has always been notorious for creating huge flat memory files when PC memory was insufficient.
What's more, older PCs that performed poorly with CS2 will continue to suffer from performance degradation with CS3. The test PC system had an Nvidia GeForce 8 SLI series graphics card.Ĭompared with Photoshop CS2, CS3 performed only marginally better. Files were rendered on fast 300-Gbyte SAS hard drives working through an Adaptec RAID card. Photoshop worked well on an Intel quad-core system with 2 GB of memory. After examining the suites, the CRN Test Center found marginal improvements on some development tools and were disappointed by the performance of its major design tools, Photoshop and Illustrator.
