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Jaygrant
Jaygrant
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December 22, 2017
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Best Intel Cpu for premiere pro After effects and 3d work

  • December 22, 2017
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Hi

I work a lot within premiere pro and after effects and do some light 3d work inside cinema 4d.

what is the best all round cpu for these programs that intel provides.

i had me eye on the 7940x but the 7900x is cheaper and seems to yield similar results.

Anyone got any tips or advice?

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    Correct answer Bill Gehrke

    It going to depends on what you are doing in your workflow.  Premiere Pro and Cinema 4d have quite well mutithreaded effects and features which love lots of cores, but After Effects is not well threaded and lots of cores actually slow down performance.  For best After Effects performance the best rated CPU is a 6-core 4.7GHz i7-8700K processor.  See this testing by Puget for the numbers to verify this.  The reason it is outstanding with non-mutithreaded applications is the high basic core clock, i.e. the 4.7GHz Turbo Speed

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    Andy 1968
    Inspiring
    August 29, 2021

    The thread is old but Intel CPUs have Quick Sync AMD CPUs do not. That being said it would be best to wait a few more months to see what Intel's 10 nm Alder Lake CPUs can do. Will Alder Lake be the best bang for the buck in 2021? Only time will tell. 

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    zed_8821
    Participant
    October 15, 2024

    Hey Andy, hope you're doing well. 
    Can you tell me what's the situation now? I need to upgrade my PC for AE and I'm not sure which CPU to get.

    Bill Gehrke
    Bill GehrkeCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    December 22, 2017

    It going to depends on what you are doing in your workflow.  Premiere Pro and Cinema 4d have quite well mutithreaded effects and features which love lots of cores, but After Effects is not well threaded and lots of cores actually slow down performance.  For best After Effects performance the best rated CPU is a 6-core 4.7GHz i7-8700K processor.  See this testing by Puget for the numbers to verify this.  The reason it is outstanding with non-mutithreaded applications is the high basic core clock, i.e. the 4.7GHz Turbo Speed

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    Optinus_
    Participating Frequently
    April 25, 2018

    I will building a new workstation and I forget how many post that I have ever read about it watched bunch of videos and finally I am so confused.

    I was thinking to buy i9 7940x but that CPU is really bad for after effects? If it is.. only getting render? I do not have any time issue for rendering. I just want to work on huge project like 4K-6K footage and cinemaDNG codec as a live preview.

    i9 7940x is really bad choose for After Effects? Or the almost the same performance with i7 8700K? everybody is choosing i7 8700K because of price/performance?

    I have been thinking to fix multi-core issue with rendergarden, if it bothers me

    So could you help me out please? I am really so confused what I need to choose

    http://www.userbenchmark.com/PCBuilder/Custom/S67316-M347462.251565.200815.161079.102222vsS59466-M353078.251565.200815.1…

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    RjL190365
    Legend
    April 25, 2018

    Here's the deal with the i9-7940X when it comes to performance in After Effects:

    1) After Effects itself does not scale well with more than about four cores and eight threads. And any workarounds to enhance multithreaded performance won't be of much if any help if the main program itself scales poorly in performance above a certain point.

    2) The multithreaded clock speed of that CPU is slower than that of some otherwise lesser CPUs. After Effects in its current form scales far more with small changes in the CPU clock speed than with extremely large changes in the number of CPU processing threads.

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