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Well, we've left OP far behind so bringing him back and the basic question, rahul bhai go for AMD A10-7850k and if better performance desired then you can pair it up with R7260X or R9 290/290X (any radeon that has XDMA engine), the XDMA engine in 7850k will help it crossfire with radeon dGPUs having XDMA, so you'll get better performance.

If you want raw power go for 8320+M5A97 R2.0+lots of RAM (16/32 GB)+Hyper 212X+any R9 series card in your budget.

* 8320: http://www.flipkart.com/amd-3-5-ghz-am3-fx-8320-8-core-piledriver-processor/p/itmdgh4ctftqmpfd?pid=PSRDGH4CZHPW2VX8

* ASUS M5A97 R2.0: http://www.flipkart.com/asus-m5a97-motherboard/p/itmd5ppvkssfvzyp?pid=MBDD5PPVJZS6G5EU&icmpid=reco_pp_cross_motherboard_2

* RAM: http://www.flipkart.com/g-skill-ripjawsx-ddr3-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-pc-ram-f3-12800cl10d-16gbxl/p/itmd8bc6bjdvpucr

* CM Hyper 212X: http://www.flipkart.com/cooler-master-hyper-212x/p/itmdhtmxs5re9nxg?pid=COLDHTMWBZ75G7NF

* Sapphire R9 270X: http://www.flipkart.com/sapphire-amd-ati-radeon-r9-270x-boost-oc-4-gb-ddr5-graphics-card/p/itmdryxquhwnxfme

With all of above from flipkart it is Rs.53,000/-, you can choose lesser RAM and lower card in order to be under budget, but both CPU & GPU of AMD is all you will need.

I suggested AMD because I have an intel rig also and it is no good, I have dual core rig is hot as hell. Using it would increase my room temperatures, everyone would feel the heat, but now when I started using 8150, I'm quite satisfied, it draws more power but is cooler, 83xx are much more cool and power efficient.
You've seen suggestions of i5 4670k, but the workload you're planning to throw on is heavily threaded and for such heavil threaded tasks you need more cores, so i5 is out of question, you may go for i7 but in such workloads the 8350 is nearly the same as i7 3770k, you may get any LGA2011 for having 12-threads performance but that's out of the pocket, so decide wisely.
 
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Well, this war will lead you to enlightenment 😛

Just one more thing to tell you, I once OC'ed my 8150 to 4.2 GHz and ran truecrypt encryption benchmark, it gave an AES encryption speed of 3.5 GB/s, the i7 3770k gives speed of 3.7 GB/s
 
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AMD FX or Kaver (A10-7850k) if you want to save some bucks, the only worthy Intel against this is the i7 3770k and above or basically any i7 if you want better performance and can spend some more cash. Don't consider i5 over FX since i5 is better at single threaded tasks but the workload that you intend to run is heavily threaded and for such heavily threaded workloads, FX Core or any i7 processor are the only feasible option since you loose the great multithreaded performance when you are on quad core (i5 & Kaveri are quads) as compared to hyperthreaded 8 core (i7 are 4-core with 2-threads per core, so 8-threads means logically its 8-core) or the FX-8xx with native 8-core (1-thread per core). FX is the best value-for-money, since you get MT performance comparable to i7 at a much lower price and the reason for this is its modular architecture which gives each thread more resources than it would get from a hyper-threaded core and this is why FX-8xxx's MT performance is near to i7 with i7 still being better due to its higher IPC, if even i7 would have been native 8-core then it would have n=been a beast but it's not 🙁 so you have only FX-8xx which is a native 8-core processor platform.
Remember, for MT workloads Kaveri < i5 < FX < i7, cost-wise Kaveri < FX < i5 < i7 now the decision is up-to you.
 
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As you can see from what I said about my 8150 @ 4.2 GHz, the FX's generally are great at MT workloads (compression/encryption, video trans-coding/conversion, video editing & multimedia etc are heavy MT workloads). Their MT perf is near to i7's, (my 3.5 GB/s vs i7's 3.7 GB/s, diff of 0.2 GB/s might have been less with better RAM and MoBo) but i7 is still better but expensive.
 
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As a rule of thumb, productivity tasks will benefit from the extra cores offered by AMD, providing that it's paired with a good amount of RAM, such as 8GB. That said, Intel does offer hyper-threading. Essentially, this creates a virtual CPU core for each true CPU core, so a true dual-core becomes a quad-core, but don't expect performance to be on-par with a true quad-core. An Intel CPU typically has better performance per core than AMD, so a dual-core Intel CPU may offer similar performance to a quad-core AMD CPU. Intel CPUs also run cooler and quieter, meaning they produce less heat and noise.

More importantly, have you considered if the animation software you're using will take advantage of extra CPU cores or hyper-threading? Also, people are suggesting that you buy a graphics card, but again, will the software use it? There's no point paying for something that won't be used.

I'd suggest that you do some research on the animation software to find out if it'll benefit from extra CPU cores, hyper-threading or a graphics card.
 
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Exactly, if its using more than 4 threads then go for FX-8xxx, else i5. Most of the professional softwares today are multi-threaded so you'll any way benefit from higher no. of cores. Moreover, if the workload can be offloaded to graphics card then cpu choice is just a matter of your own personal taste because then a good GFX will be more important, radeons are typically better at computing tasks (OpenCL). If your software says that it is OpenCL accelerated then blindly go for anything above 7870 or R9270X both of which are great at OpenCL compuing.
 
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seeing as the 8320 doesn't fit his budget, why are you still stuck on selling him Intel? with that price range a there isn't a whole lot he can get worth while from Intel. When earlier it is stated an i5 is no match for an FX.

Leaving AMD his solution.

 
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I recommended him buying the fx 8320.
I never tried to sell him any intel product after I saw his budget.
You simply tried convincing AMD was better than Intel. (performance wise).
 
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maybe you didn't understand but that was all the argument was for on my side, even with Metalrenok comparisons were based off the i5 capability being superior with single threaded. i will always say i7 is overkill for just gaming as it is better for massive HPC usage however the FX 8 series outperforms intel when a budget is concerned, if pockets were deep i'm sure the i7 would be considered here and i would advise maybe going with AMD to spend more on GPU performance as OP is interested in high end animation, though an nVidia would be great for gaming, an AMD gpu would be great for rendering and animation purposes as they excel in tessellation (rapid rendering of polygons) granting a better rendered product in applications such as 3DS Max, or Blender.

IGP in Intel is a nice creature comfort when discrete cards are outside of the budget, same goes for AMD's APU but with the APU you can do the Hybrid CrossfireX with AMD discrete cards for added performance.

As far as the mainframe super computing systems, AMD is on the top with their Opteron being selected in Titan paired with Tesla's Titan is one insane machine.

I'm sorry if you misunderstood my intentions.
 
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I would never recommend any intel part for his usage with his budget.
It's very true the fx 8320 outperform any other processor at is price.
Hybrid crossfireX is a bad option, just crossfire course alot of problems.
I agree that on budgets GPU is more important.
The Opteron is not on top on super-computing.
 
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