We tested v2.0 of the Photoshop Camera Raw (PCR) plug-in within Photoshop CS for Mac and Windows. Each RAW format photo was processed with the settings stored in its associated sidecar file. An Action was used to open the photos without PCR's adjustment window intervening, both in the single and batch open tests.

All results are in seconds. Single photo processing times are rounded to the nearest 0.1 of a second; batch processing times are rounded to the nearest full second. The fastest times for each task are in bold.

Task	Dell Precision 450 Dual Xeon 3.06GHz w/2GB RAM, WinXP Pro (seconds)	Apple Power Mac G5/2.0GHz Dual w/2GB RAM, OS X 10.3.2 (seconds)	Dell Precision 360 P4 3.2GHz w/2GB RAM, WinXP Pro (seconds)	Apple Power Mac G5/1.8GHz w/2GB RAM, OS X 10.3.2 (seconds)
Open 1 Canon EOS 10D photo	2.8	2.8	4.0	4.1
Open 5 Canon EOS 10D photos	14	14	19	21
Open 1 Canon EOS-1Ds photo	4.4	4.2	6.0	6.4
Open 5 Canon EOS-1Ds photos	21	20	29	31
Open 1 Fuji S2 Pro RAF photo	6.1	6.2	7.6	9
Open 5 Fuji S2 Pro RAF photos	29	30	38	44
Open 1 Nikon D100 NEF photo	2.5	2.4	3.5	3.6
Open 5 Nikon D100 NEF photos	12	11	17	18
Open 1 Nikon D1X NEF photo	4.5	3.7	6.3	5.6
Open 5 Nikon D1X NEF photos	22	18	31	28

Testing Notes: Sharpness, Luminance Smoothing and Color Noise Reduction noise were switched on. Correction for chromatic aberration and vignetting was switched off. All files were output at 16 Bits/Channel at the default size for the camera.