What is a good CPU for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator?

[peter_151]

Hello

My current computer is very slow while running Photoshop and illustrator. It's probably due to the slow processor, an ld AMD phenom X2 945, overclocked to 3.6ghz.

I want to build a new PC using the AMD FX-8350. I hope this will make photoshop and illustrator much faster. I am picking this because it seems to deliver very good performance for its price and it seems to outperform alternatives in the same price range.

What do you guys think? For this price range, are there better CPUs for driving Photoshop and Illustrator?

Thanks
Pete

 

[maikutech]

How much ram is installed in your computer and what brand is it ?
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html
Also about you upgrading the cpu look into the AMD FX 6350 hexacore, that cpu performs better than that 8 core.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-945-95W-vs-AMD-FX-6300

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Any site ending with BOSS is a poor reference.

 

[maikutech]

If your not going to help the op or me out please don't help.

 

[PeterZ640]

My experience is Photoshop is poorly written for multicore. Seems to stick on one core, so you need the fastest possible clock speed you can afford. And the fastest SSD you can afford. Plus enough RAM.

My workstation is like lightning Intel 750 PCIe 40 PCIe lanes, 32GB 2133 DDR4 Ram. Photoshop is a slouch!
When it goes into Portraiture it jumps from 1 core to 4 Cores, you visibly see things speed up.
My CPU is V3 Is 3.5 Ghz and 3.8 in Turbo mode, but I didnt expected great performance, until I upgrade to the new E5 1650 V4 which is intrinsicly 8% faster, and then add the boost of 3.6 and 4.0 Ghz turbo speed and tmshould be OK.
But its irritating tomsee the other 5 cores ( 10 threads Sitting idle!! )
My GTX 970 with 4 GB Ram should be adequate but not much is handed off tomthe GPU, so thats little help and the fans rarely even come on.

Bluntly the folks who warned me raw Clock speed was king were right. Not a lot one can do until Photoshops gets into the 21st Century and starts realising most of us have CPUs with moore than one core Lol!