Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0

For our Photoshop Elements test, we used a selection of 400 three megapixel 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 as a high quality JPEG.


The performance of the Jetway board is excellent—even despite the fact it’s running only single-channel memory. It pulls up 15 seconds before the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H, which is based on the AMD 780G. And, compared to the previous generation of boards, it's significantly faster – it edges out a lead of over a minute in some cases.

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.



Again, in both large and small file compression the Jetway board is faster by at least a few seconds over the next fastest board. Compared to the Gigabyte 780G board, it’s again 20 to 30 seconds faster even in this quite short test. Why? Possibly due to the fact that the single chip solution seems to work better and when it’s coupled with AMD's more efficient use of memory, it puts the Intel-based GeForce 7100 solution to bed as it seems to work exceptionally well.

File Decompression & Decryption:

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



In decompression, the Jetway’s performance is still ahead of the competition by a decent margin.

Xvid Encoding:

We tested video encoding performance using VirtualDub-MPEG version 1.6.15 and a multithreaded version of the Xvid codec, along with the LAME MT MP3 encoder for encoding audio. We did a two-pass encode of a 15-minute 276MB digital TV recording with a target file size of 100MB.


For the first time the Jetway doesn't win by a huge margin – the Asus Intel G35-based board is slightly faster, but the Jetway still outperforms the current generation Gigabyte, AMD 780G board.