Why Not an AMD ??..Is going economical a compromise ?

[8350rocks]

Hmm...I know it blew the doors off the 3570k, and I believe the 4670k as well...though anything less is certainly not nearly as close.

 

[tortvoice v]

Oh I see you want to use Blender, well in that case Nvidia GPUs are a must. Im also modeling and rendering in blender (i7 4770k, R9 290 Tri-x), everything runs smoothly but you can do the whole rendering on Nvidia GPU-s a lot faster. Sadly its currently not supported to render scenes on AMD GPU-s.

Adobe thrives with Cuda, Blender support only Cuda http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/OpenCL, Handbrake and Gimp have support for both (but quality suffers in GPU encoding in Handbrake) and not sure about DaVinci Resolve Lite... I was inclined towards OpenCL because it's unbiased and have an open platform available for all but stats are against it..

 

[8350rocks]

Oh I see you want to use Blender, well in that case Nvidia GPUs are a must. Im also modeling and rendering in blender (i7 4770k, R9 290 Tri-x), everything runs smoothly but you can do the whole rendering on Nvidia GPU-s a lot faster. Sadly its currently not supported to render scenes on AMD GPU-s.

Adobe thrives with Cuda, Blender support only Cuda http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/OpenCL, Handbrake and Gimp have support for both (but quality suffers in GPU encoding in Handbrake) and not sure about DaVinci Resolve Lite... I was inclined towards OpenCL because it's unbiased and have an open platform available for all but stats are against it..

Actually, Adobe is now working with AMD, and the latest versions of their software support OpenCL rendering acceleration, as well as HSA for future applications.

You may check some of the benchmarks for the software from the last month or so...as those software updates would be very recent.

 

[DubbleClick]

Hmm...I know it blew the doors off the 3570k, and I believe the 4670k as well...though anything less is certainly not nearly as close.

The 8350 was indeed a tad stronger than an i5 3570k. However, it's not like a 3570k would be the same as a 4690k. 😉

 

[tortvoice v]

Adobe thrives with Cuda, Blender support only Cuda http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/OpenCL, Handbrake and Gimp have support for both (but quality suffers in GPU encoding in Handbrake) and not sure about DaVinci Resolve Lite... I was inclined towards OpenCL because it's unbiased and have an open platform available for all but stats are against it..[/quotemsg]

Actually, Adobe is now working with AMD, and the latest versions of their software support OpenCL rendering acceleration, as well as HSA for future applications.

You may check some of the benchmarks for the software from the last month or so...as those software updates would be very recent.[/quotemsg]

Checked some recent benchmarks and You're right.. Hope that Blender too will follow..