The Vishera Review: AMD FX-8350, FX-8320, FX-6300 and FX-4300 Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on October 23, 2012 12:00 AM ESTPhotoshop Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS4
To measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. The test does basic photo editing; there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image.
The whole process is timed and thanks to the use of Intel's X25-M SSD as our test bed hard drive, performance is far more predictable than back when we used to test on mechanical disks.
Time is reported in seconds and the lower numbers mean better performance. The test is multithreaded and can hit all four cores in a quad-core machine.
We see similar results in our Photoshop benchmark, Vishera falls behind a bit as this test isn't threaded enough to showcase the platform's advantages.
3D Rendering Performance
Our new POV-Ray benchmark uses the latest beta binary (3.7RC6) and runs through both single and multithreaded versions of the popular raytracing benchmark.
The latest POV-Ray test gives us a good look at single threaded performance. Here AMD was able to increase performance over the FX-8150 by 11%, however Intel's Core i5 3570K still manages to hold on to a 20% performance lead over the FX-8350.
Running the same benchmark but multithreaded puts AMD at the top. With the exception of the FX-6300, all of the AMD parts beat out their Intel counterparts.
Cinebench 11.5
Created by the Cinema 4D folks we have Cinebench, a popular 3D rendering benchmark that gives us both single and multi-threaded 3D rendering results.
Cinebench 11.5 paints an even more dire picture for AMD's single threaded performance - Intel manages a 40% advantage over the FX-8350.
Multithreaded performance however continues to be great.
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MySchizoBuddy - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
correct for your workload AMD is a better choice in speed and costBlibbax - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Read the techreport review. Intel still comes out on top.CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
Don't worry AMD is going to SteamRoll Intel soon !CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
NO, amd never does better. It does worse, often by a lot, and sad little cheapo SB's spank it sorry a lot of the time.Mugur - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
I'm trying to find a good scenario for those desktop cpus... Cheap 8 core virtualization hosts? Video encoding? Other than that, in this "mobile" world when every desktop PC looks out of time, I don't know what you can do with them. They are obviously not good for light loads or gaming...lmcd - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
The architecture makes more sense when less modules are used, i.e. the APU series. Look at how Trinity destroyed Llano, both desktop and mobile. And note that an A10+6670 is a perfect midrange gaming value.CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link
fanboy much ? Now we have again the amd perfection. LOLSB smacks it down, as does nVidia. Sorry fanboy, amd has nothing that is a perfect value, especially in gaming.
RussianSensation - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
What are you blabbing about? You should be banned from this forum.While Intel's CPUs are clearly in a class of their own for high-end CPU gaming rigs, AMD's GPUs are doing very well this generation, having captured single-GPU performance crown, performance/$ and overclocking performance. The minute you said NV smacks AMD's GPU around, you lost ALL credibility.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12...
You may want to take a look at 90% of all the games that came out in 2012 - GTX680 loses to 7970 GE (or 680 OC vs. 7970 OC). Facts must not sit well with AMD haters.
mayankleoboy1 - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Nice performance predictions for Haswell and Steamroller.But IMHO, 15% increase for Haswell is too high and 15% for Steamroller is low.
IMHO, more realistic expectations would be :
Haswell 10%. probably more like 8%.
Steamroller 20%
dishayu - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
Steamroller 15% is straight from the horse's (AMD's) mouth and 15% for Haswell is well within reason because it's a "tock" (new architecture). So, i think 15% for both works out fine for making speculative statements at this moment.