Intel’s modest Core i9 beats AMD’s latest 64-core monster CPU on Adobe benchmarks
Don’t buy a Threadripper Pro to run Photoshop; expect big things from heavily-threaded workloads though
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Given the price of the newAMD Threadripper Pro, you’d expect the company’s finest HEDT processor to squash the competition ruthlessly. And it turns out that in most cases it generally does, except in a couple of rather important ones, according to the first comprehensive test carried out.
US-basedPugetsystems, a popularworkstationvendor, published a series of in-depth reviews of the Threadripper Pro 5995WX, 10 of them spanning across a number of applications, withIntel’s Xeon W-3300 standing in as a sparring partner.
Even with its 64-cores, the 5995WX couldn’t beat Intel’s Core i9-12900K inAdobe Premiere Pro,Adobe Lightroom Classicand inAdobe Photoshopwhile the two came very close on After Effects.
Testing times
The obvious conclusion is that if you plan to stick withAdobe Creative Cloud, Intel is probably the way to go. The 12900K is not even the fastest Intel HEDT processor right now, this title belongs to the 12950HX, launched in May 2022.
For the rest of the benchmarks (DaVinci, Cinebench, V-Ray, Blender and Unreal), core numbers are still important, allowing the 5995WX to top the leaderboard. Another popular benchmark, PassMark, has entries for the 5995WX where it became the first processor to smash through the 100,000 mark barrier, a healthy 15% improvement on the previous champion, theEPYC 7773X.
Intel’s HEDT revival?
Overall, Intel seems to be faring better in lightly threaded workloads which means that Intel’s fastest consumer CPU will suffice for most creative tasks.
AMDwill certainly have noticed how competitive the new Core i9 processors are even compared with AMD’s current top-of-the-range consumer processor, the Ryzen 9 5950X.
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Realistically though, we’re due for an update given that the current crop of Ryzen desktop CPUs was launched in November 2020, more than 18-months ago. Early this year, laptop processors based on Zen3+ architecture gave us a glimpse of how powerful their desktop (and server) counterparts could be.
Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled inwebsite buildersandweb hostingwhen DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.
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