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Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 - How good is it?

Urbanfreestyle said:
Been playing with this now for a few days. Clocked it to 4.4 so far and runs lightroom and photoshop much quicker than my old i7!!!
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The Pentium dual core needs the overclock. Even an overclocked Core i7 920 would probably beat it.
 
Urbanfreestyle said:
I can't read german :-/
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CAT's point is pretty clear. The chart shows seconds taken to complete RAW conversion(s) in Lightroom. The Pentiums sit at the very bottom, getting destroyed by almost everything with 4 cores or more (even a Core 2 Quad and some AMD APUs).

Clearly this Lightroom test likes threads, so your claim that your Pentium runs better than an i7 is either because (a) your workload isn't so threaded or (b) you've got it overclocked enough to bring it into contention. Looking at the numbers, to get it up to i7 level would need a 50% ish overclock though, not something most chips can do.
 
Isn't Light Room a plugin for Photoshop though?

TBH I've had a Pentium for a while now and it's pretty pants. It seems to bench OK and does a half decent job of displaying good FPS. Sadly as I got into some gaming on it the stutters started. It's just not man enough and is, as I suspected, just a toy to play with.

If you're not gaming though and just light office duties and some Photoshop I'm pretty sure it would be great. I've put a Quadro in my Pentium rig now and just use it for light duties when I'm not in the mood for all of the heat and noise my desktop likes to make.
 
kind of, Photoshop and lightroom run exclusively from eachother however lightroom is like the catalogue for all your photos and photoshop is the editor. Although i mainly do my editing in light room. Photoshop is for the more heavy editing rather than tweaking.
 
kayomani said:
Mine is running at 4ghz with no extra volts, I think you'd be silly to not oc.
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Mine runs at 4.2 stock volts but it's still not enough for a smooth, decent gaming experience. Get a FX 6300 or something.

Urbanfreestyle said:
kind of, Photoshop and lightroom run exclusively from eachother however lightroom is like the catalogue for all your photos and photoshop is the editor. Although i mainly do my editing in light room. Photoshop is for the more heavy editing rather than tweaking.
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From what I remember it launches separately though, so could well address the CPU differently to Photoshop. That's what I was getting at.
 
yeah it will run seperately (that's how i run it)
it is also running GPU accelleration to so that helps! I was dreading buying such a cheap processor but i can't complain one bit. I may upgrade to a quadcore or more in the future but for now this runs beautifully!.
 
Ps and LR are two completely separate programs.

They complement each other and can do many things the other can but if anything, ps acts as a plugin to lightroom, not the other way round.
 
McGraw said:
Ps and LR are two completely separate programs.

They complement each other and can do many things the other can but if anything, ps acts as a plugin to lightroom, not the other way round.
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Glad somebody pointed this out.

Although they now overlap in some of the things they do, Lightroom is more tailored to the processing of digital photos, similar to what you did in a camera dark room back in the day. Especially if you shot in RAW. Which is basically the raw image data before it gets turned into the jpeg. This is why jpegs always look better than raw images out of the same camera. Though you can get it looking much better than the jpeg if you process the image in something like Lightroom or DX0.
Photoshop is tailored to editing, so if you wanted to stick your head on Frank Zane's body then you'd used Photoshop.

The OP would only perceive the Pentium K faster than the
I7 if doing basic tasks but once you start doing anything a bit more intensive then the K would be limiting.
 
i didnt think it that nessacary for it to be clarified. most people that use LR / Photoshop know the difference :-P

and in reply to FlanK3r, i think from what most people are saying, the answer is no but i myself after running for a week or so is that i haven't found a program that mine clocked at 4.4 can't handle happily. I have now also been playing Dirt 3 on ultra (yes i know this is more to do with the GPU) and i have also been running Kali linux, Windows 8, 10, server 2k3, 2k8 and 2012 in virtual boxes :-)
 
I absolutely cannot fault it for the price! ive been running games very handy, as people are saying having multiple things open etc can really hinder it. It was really impressive buy for £50 when my amd died
 
Is this CPU worth getting as a stop gap for me .... im thinking of getting a 4790K but cant quite stretch it this month.

Will be playing games such as GTA V , Diablo 3 ...

This will be in a Z97-UD3H-BK , 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP , Sapphire Vapor-X 290X
 
Lustral said:
Is this CPU worth getting as a stop gap for me .... im thinking of getting a 4790K but cant quite stretch it this month.

Will be playing games such as GTA V , Diablo 3 ...

This will be in a Z97-UD3H-BK , 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP , Sapphire Vapor-X 290X
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I did just that using it as placeholder until Broadwell arrived (well that wasn't worth waiting for LOL)...

It's done just fine, no issues @ 4GHz, not inclined to drive it higher.

Depends on a lot of variables: how long before you get an upgrade, etc. Don't play either of those games so don't know about them.
 
Pleiades said:
I did just that using it as placeholder until Broadwell arrived (well that wasn't worth waiting for LOL)...

It's done just fine, no issues @ 4GHz, not inclined to drive it higher.

Depends on a lot of variables: how long before you get an upgrade, etc. Don't play either of those games so don't know about them.
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Currently i have a X58 , i7 930 , 16GB RAM ... , ideally i want to get the upgrade done and sell my surplus motherboard , CPU , RAM and GPU
 
Just picked one of these cpu's up for £30...whats a decent budget motherboard to go with this that will allow a mild overclock and is micro sized?
 
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