| Photoshop Benchmark |
Intel
i7-3960X |
Intel
i7-990X |
Intel
i7-2700K |
AMD
FX-8150 |
| Texturiser |
0.6 |
0.9 |
0.6 |
1.0 |
| CMYK Colour Conversion |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
| RGB |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
| Ink |
12.0 |
16.4 |
12.2 |
14.5 |
| Dust |
0.8 |
1.0 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
| Watercolor |
11.8 |
16.6 |
12.0 |
15.0 |
| Texturiser 2 |
0.5 |
1.1 |
0.6 |
1.0 |
| Stained |
8.1 |
8.3 |
7.3 |
12.2 |
| Lighting |
0.8 |
1.0 |
1.1 |
1.6 |
| Mosaic |
5.8 |
8.5 |
5.9 |
6.8 |
| Extrude |
37.0 |
66.2 |
37.7 |
53.4 |
| Smart Blur |
32.4 |
39.2 |
33.3 |
51.0 |
| Underpaint |
13.7 |
16.9 |
13.9 |
20.6 |
| Palette |
11.6 |
14.2 |
11.8 |
17.3 |
| Sponge |
17.0 |
22.8 |
17.3 |
20.8 |
| Total |
153.3 |
214.5 |
156.5 |
218.1 |
Looking first to the Cinebench results we see a scenario where all of the cores and threads on our CPUs are in use and there is a clear winner in this test, the new i7-3960X. It doubles the performance of AMDs new FX CPU and finishes significantly faster than the quad core i7-2700K.
Moving to Photoshop the i7-3960X retains its lead however in this application the 2700K is reasonably close in performance. The same cannot be said for the i7-990X however which falls far behind the new high end chip from Intel.
