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TimSx
Inspiring
October 3, 2017
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comparing 2 CPUs for AE rendering

  • October 3, 2017
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I've found out that AE uses a single core for rendering. With that being said I am having some difficulties believing I should buy a $45 CPU for my rendering machine.

Take this 2 products for example:

AMD A6-6400K and AMD Ryzen 3 1300X.

https://www.amazon.com/AMD-A6-6400K-Dual-Core-Processor-AD640KOKHLBOX/dp/B00CPLGFM4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1507030230&sr=8-1&keywords=AMD+A6-6400K

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0741DLVL7/ref=psdc_229189_t2_B06XKVNRSM

They have the same power consumption, similar clockrates, but the 1300X one is almost 3x the cost of the A6-6400K. 

Am I missing something obvious here? Is there any argument why should someone buy 1300X over the cheeper one, if rendering is the main goal here? I won't be doing any ray-traced stuff. Does it make any sense to buy the 1300x, if I am going to shift to 2014 version of AE?

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Correct answer RjL190365

Forget about the A6-6400K. It is a really lousy, four-year-old dual-core CPU that's slower than even an Intel i3 CPU that's five years old, and is of the lousy Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture that has a very poor implementation of the SSE 4.x support that Adobe software makes heavy use of. It is far inferior to the Ryzen 3 even in single-threaded performance! You might as well have only a dual-core Intel Celeron laptop if you buy that A6-6400K CPU.

Oh, by the way, other Adobe programs make good use of multi-threading. Once again, that A6-6400K falls well short there because it has only two cores and two threads while the Ryzen 3 1300X has four cores and eight threads. As such, that A6-6400K is well over three times slower than the R3-1300X in most apps.

Put this comparison in automotive terms, comparing the A6-6400K to the R3-1300X is like comparing a 1986 Hyundai Excel to a 2006 Honda Civic. The newer Civic is so much better than that piece of junk Excel (Hyundai did not achieve very good quality until the latter half of the 2000s).

In other words, that A6-6400K is worth much less than $45. In fact, I wouldn't pay even $20 for that CPU.

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RjL190365Correct answer
Legend
October 3, 2017

Forget about the A6-6400K. It is a really lousy, four-year-old dual-core CPU that's slower than even an Intel i3 CPU that's five years old, and is of the lousy Bulldozer/Piledriver architecture that has a very poor implementation of the SSE 4.x support that Adobe software makes heavy use of. It is far inferior to the Ryzen 3 even in single-threaded performance! You might as well have only a dual-core Intel Celeron laptop if you buy that A6-6400K CPU.

Oh, by the way, other Adobe programs make good use of multi-threading. Once again, that A6-6400K falls well short there because it has only two cores and two threads while the Ryzen 3 1300X has four cores and eight threads. As such, that A6-6400K is well over three times slower than the R3-1300X in most apps.

Put this comparison in automotive terms, comparing the A6-6400K to the R3-1300X is like comparing a 1986 Hyundai Excel to a 2006 Honda Civic. The newer Civic is so much better than that piece of junk Excel (Hyundai did not achieve very good quality until the latter half of the 2000s).

In other words, that A6-6400K is worth much less than $45. In fact, I wouldn't pay even $20 for that CPU.

TimSx
TimSxAuthor
Inspiring
October 3, 2017

Thank you RjL190365 for a quick reply! You mentioned Adobe uses SSE4.x. How do you know which processor support this feature adequately? I mean, what feature do I search for when buying a processor for AE?

Bulldozer / Piledriver architecture are a no go. Is there some preferred architecture? This is probably the same question as "Does it have SSE4.x support"

Bill Gehrke
Inspiring
October 4, 2017

This is what you look for.