FX-8350 vs. Core i5-3470 CPU Review

After Effects CS4

After Effects is a very well-known program for video post-production, to add animation and visual effects in videos. To evaluate the performance of each CPU running this program, we ran a workload consisting of a number of compositions that applied several filters and effects to a variety of input file types such as PSD (Photoshop), AI (Illustrator), EPS and TIF. After each filter was applied, the composition was rendered to an uncompressed AVI file with the same resolution as the input files. The results below are the times each CPU took to finish the whole batch, given in seconds, so the lower the number the better.

On After Effects CS4, the Core i5-3470 was once again the fastest CPU, with a 16% advantage over the FX-8350. The Core i5-2500K was 9% faster than the FX-8350, which was 10% faster than the FX-8150.