fx53 vs fx51 vs p4 3.4

[status quo]

well

P4 3.4ghz
FX53
FX51

in order of speed.

you may also consider an athlon 64 - better value.

seems nothing but a wind up thread.

search and fins some arguements about intel vs amd, search again and find arguements about 64-bit.

[imashination]

Depends what you're doing. The FX's will give a noticabley faster speed in the viewport and the P4 will give a slightly higher speed for the majority of renders. The other advantage of the P4 is the hyper threading which helps keep the system smoother running in general.

[brudney]

in what way will FX help in speeding up the viewport performance?? don't get it...
i thought that video card was responsible for it.

anyway, i agree with status quo. p4 3.4 first, fx 53 2nd and fx 51 3rd. it may change a bit when fx 55 comes out. new socket, faster hyper transport=better performance. we will see.

[cha0t1c1]

but when I checked anandtech.com it showed the fx53 surpassing the 3.4 p4...

[MadMax]

A64 FX-53 2.4ghz. Raytrace 76 sec.

Athlon64 2.4ghz. Raytrace 83 sec.

Pentium4 3.4ghz. Raytrace 83 sec.

results from the blanos.com Lightwave benchmark page.

Unfortunately I noticed that there are not a lot of respondents that bench all application benchmarks like the rad ref things and radiosity.

Also there hasn't been much in the way of dual Opteron posts either.

spec.org has a fair set of maya bench tests which the A64 fairly dominates.

Anadtech did a review of 939 A64's against everything else, and AMD FX-55 (unreleased sample) topped the charts almost completely across the board on all but a couple of tests. Although the FX-53 was no slouch either.

[imashination]

Originally posted by dirty
in what way will FX help in speeding up the viewport performance?? don't get it...
i thought that video card was responsible for it.

It is, but the CPU still needs to send that data to the gfx card. If it were all down to the gfx card then the gamers would all be using 500MHz Celerons with their new Radeons.

Faster cpus and gpus complement each other. As the FX range have a very good single threaded performance they will give the highest editor speed (its single threaded) however the Hyperthreading of the P4 gives it an edge of the athlon when rendering.

Overall, if youre after a single cpu system, id go for the P4, if you want a dual, i would pick the AMD chips.

HOWEVER, just to complicate things more ;-) SP2 of Windows XP will be able to use 4 gigs of RAM per application, but only on 64-bit systems... so thats something else to consider.

[brudney]

Yeah, i totally agree, but both p4 3.4 and fx 53 are so powerful that there's virtually no difference between them when it comes to complementing GPU. Obviously there would be a huge difference if you compared fx 53 to, let's say, duron 800... any new radeon or geforce wouldn’t be able to show its power then. it'd be blocked by the slow CPU. but neither p4 3.4 nor fx 53 will be an obstacle for any video card. both cpus are too powerful for that.

[cha0t1c1]

I agree, but when it comes to content creation, I get confused which is better, the benchmarks are never on agreeing terms.

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