Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 3-Mega Pixel photographs taken in a variety of surroundings using the batch file processing function in the Elements Editor. We performed all of the auto fixes, including Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Colour and Sharpen before resizing the image to 640x480 and saving it as a high quality JPEG.


The Corsair at 1,866MHz is again a couple of seconds faster on average than the Super Talent at the same speeds, and even at CL-8 it's a fraction faster than CL-7 at 1,800MHz. At 1,333MHz low latency there's nothing between them as they use equal settings.

File Compression & Encryption:

Our file compression and decompression tests were split into two halves to cover a broad spectrum of performance. The first test we ran was to compress and encrypt the MPEG-2 source file from our video encoding test with the highest quality compression ratio. Secondly, we compressed and encrypted the folder of 400 photographs used in our Photoshop Elements test with the same compression settings.



The Super Talent at 1,333MHz low latency consistently performs some 10 seconds slower than the Corsair at the same speed and latency but, at 1,866MHz, the Super Talent is a couple of seconds faster than Corsair at an equivalent speed - though it's still not as fast as the 1,800MHz low latency Corsair.

File Decompression & Decryption:

The two RAR archives created during the compression and encryption tests were then decompressed and decrypted.



Decompression scores are less memory intensive and as such are more scattered, and there's only a couple of seconds difference, which is within the realms of experimental variation.