Looking to switch from an FX-8350 to an i7 for better After Effects performance

[halomademeapc]

I've started using After Effects for work and personal projects more recently and I'm looking to speed things along so I don't have to spend as long waiting for preview frames to render out while I'm working. I'm willing to drop $300-$500 within the next month or so on a CPU and a motherboard to go with it. My current build is as follows:

 

Case : Raidmax Vortex (tiny, so it'll only fit about a 9"x11" mobo)

Mobo: Asus m5a-99x evo r2.0

RAM: 24GB (8 4 8 4) DDR3 1600

CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz

Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212

GPU: GTX660 (2GB GDDR5)

PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 620W

and then storage and stuff

 

Aside from purchase recommendations, I have a few questions:

- In ideal conditions (multi-threaded with full scaling, etc.), roughly what percent performance increase would I see from switching?

- I haven't kept up on AMD's release schedule lately. Are they releasing anything "game-changing" in the near future that I'd be better off waiting for?

- Is the CPU the right thing to upgrade here or would I be better off with a better GPU and relying on CUDA acceleration?

- I've heard from some people that something like a 4790k would triple my compute performance, which I'm very skeptical of and I've also heard that it'd only be about a 10% difference which seems like another extreme.  Does anybody have solid figures for this that I could use as a comparison?

- Would my money be better spent investing in water cooling and overclocking if switching to Intel would not provide significant performance benefits?

 

Thanks for any advice in advance.

[i_build_nanosuits]

I'm willing to drop $300-$500 within the next month or so on a CPU and a

i you want something that will radicaly outperform the FX-8350 in multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking you'll have to trow a lot more than 300 to 500$ on it...

As far as multi-threaded performance is concerned, moving from an overclocked AMD FX-83XX chip the next worthy upgrade is this honestly:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($154.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($104.95 @ B&H)

Total: $628.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-02 12:56 EDT-0400

Anything below that you will feel raped.

[The Official Czex]

 

I've started using After Effects for work and personal projects more recently and I'm looking to speed things along so I don't have to spend as long waiting for preview frames to render out while I'm working. I'm willing to drop $300-$500 within the next month or so on a CPU and a motherboard to go with it. My current build is as follows:

 

Case : Raidmax Vortex (tiny, so it'll only fit about a 9"x11" mobo)

Mobo: Asus m5a-99x evo r2.0

RAM: 24GB (8 4 8 4) DDR3 1600

CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6GHz

Heatsink: Cooler Master Hyper 212

GPU: GTX660 (2GB GDDR5)

PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 620W

and then storage and stuff

 

Aside from purchase recommendations, I have a few questions:

- In ideal conditions (multi-threaded with full scaling, etc.), roughly what percent performance increase would I see from switching?

- I haven't kept up on AMD's release schedule lately. Are they releasing anything "game-changing" in the near future that I'd be better off waiting for?

- Is the CPU the right thing to upgrade here or would I be better off with a better GPU and relying on CUDA acceleration?

- I've heard from some people that something like a 4790k would triple my compute performance, which I'm very skeptical of and I've also heard that it'd only be about a 10% difference which seems like another extreme.  Does anybody have solid figures for this that I could use as a comparison?

- Would my money be better spent investing in water cooling and overclocking if switching to Intel would not provide significant performance benefits?

 

Thanks for any advice in advance.

 

 

4790k?

[PlayStation 2]

If you're going from an 8350 to an i7 for After Effects, it's not worth it.

[i_build_nanosuits]

1- In ideal conditions (multi-threaded with full scaling, etc.), roughly what percent performance increase would I see from switching?

2- I haven't kept up on AMD's release schedule lately. Are they releasing anything "game-changing" in the near future that I'd be better off waiting for?

3- Is the CPU the right thing to upgrade here or would I be better off with a better GPU and relying on CUDA acceleration?

4- I've heard from some people that something like a 4790k would triple my compute performance, which I'm very skeptical of and I've also heard that it'd only be about a 10% difference which seems like another extreme.  Does anybody have solid figures for this that I could use as a comparison?

5- Would my money be better spent investing in water cooling and overclocking if switching to Intel would not provide significant performance benefits?

1- +100% multi-threaded performance or more depending on the clockspeed with a 6 core 12 threads CPU like the 5820K.

2- No, AMD will never catch up with haswell or hawell-E or skylake or whatever..at least not anytime soon, it's done.

3- Not sure, depends on your application, do your research it might very well be your GPU is weak, if you game at 1080p as well you want to consider upgrade there for sure.

4- 25 to 40% depending on clock speed. (AKA not worth your 500$...if you're after single-threaded performance for gaming though you see up to 100% per core performance increases...but multi-threaded around 30%-35% is what i've observed.)

5- Switch to intel but not a quad-core. Water-cooling is highly optionnal a good aircooler from bequiet or noctua would be perfect as well.

[halomademeapc]

i you want something that will radicaly outperform the FX-8350 in multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking you'll have to trow a lot more than 300 to 500$ on it...

As far as multi-threaded performance is concerned, moving from an overclocked AMD FX-83XX chip the next worthy upgrade is this honestly:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($368.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme3 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($154.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($104.95 @ B&H)

Total: $628.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-02 12:56 EDT-0400

Anything below that you will feel raped.

My friends made it sound like an i7 would wipe the floor with my FX.  Good thing I got a second opinion on that.

 

Just curious, though

are there any similarly-specced i7 chips to the one you mentioned that would allow me to continue using my DDR3 RAM?  I've got 24gigs of it (less than a year old so it would seem like an awful shame to ditch it)

[i_build_nanosuits]

My friends made it sound like an i7 would wipe the floor with my FX.

in many single-threaded applications or applications that use 6 main threads or less for example...games... yes it absolutely would, but in multi-threaded applications such as video rendering, transcoding, encoding or compression for example an haswell hyper-threaded quad-core CPU such as the i7-4790K for example is only around 30% faster clock for clock.

Check LTT Cinebench R15 user submitted results for example and you'll see, it's pinned up there in the subforum topics...single-threaded performance is leap and bound ahead though.

[Nena Trinity]

I say go for Skylake or X99!

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just curious, though

are there any similarly-specced i7 chips to the one you mentioned that would allow me to continue using my DDR3 RAM?  I've got 24gigs of it (less than a year old so it would seem like an awful shame to ditch it)

if you're willing to buy used you can look at 6 Core CPU on X79 ivy-bridge E for example the i7-4930K will ''wipe the floor'' of your AMD FX both in single-threaded AND multi-threaded performance ...and this work with DDR3 RAM.