Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU Review

Photoshop CS4

The best way to measure performance is by using real programs. The problem, though, is creating a methodology using real software that provides accurate results. For Photoshop CS4, there is a methodology created by the folks at GamingHeaven that is very accurate. Their script applies a series of 15 filters to a sample image. Then we wrote down the time taken for each filter to run. At the end, we had the results for each individual filter, which we added up to get the total time taken to run the 15 filters. The results below are given in seconds, so the lower the number the better.

On Photoshop CS4, the Core i7-3960X was 22.9% faster than the Core i7-990X and 36.2% faster than the AMD FX-8150.