Hardware Recomendation for using final version of (Premier pro, Photoshop, illustrator, audition) in parallel

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April 5, 2018
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I'm working in the IT Department in a media production company, and I'm intending to buy a new hardware for our designer, and here is a brief preview of his work:

he usually uses (Premier pro, Photoshop, illustrator, audition) in parallel

And here is the information that he provided for each app:

• Adobe Premier :

o usually I will be exporting the following videos daily: (3 to 5 videos from 5 min to 30 min, also 6 other videos from 45 min to 1 hr length)

o export specs : Full HD, 30 frames/sec.

• Adobe Photoshop:

o Usually I will be exporting 6 designs daily. also 1 design per month with 300 DBI with size (3meter x 3 meter)

o Export specs : Full HD

• Adobe illustrator:

o Assume I have same designs and specs as Photoshop

• Adobe Audition

o About 5 to 7 wave files needs to be edited daily ranging from 5 min to 1hr

• Adobe In Design

o I have 10 pages working on them in parallel in A4 size

I need your recommendation regarding the hardware I will buy, and my budget is 5000 $ , and I'm confused about the following:

• What is the proper processor I will use in Xeon family? Does Xeon silver 4114 10 core enough?

• How much ram I will need? Does 32 GB ddr4 of ECC Ram will be enough?

• Regarding the Hard drives: Is it best to use (256GB SSD SATA3 for OS and programs, 1 TB of M.2 SSD hard drive for media and project files, 256GB SSD of M.2 SSD hard drive for Cached, scratched files and preview files) ? or there is another configuration I should consider for best performance?

• What is the minimum Quadro graphic card I should use, so I don’t have errors in rendering and also to get fast rendering to finish all the above tasks? Does the Quadro p4000 is enough or Quadro p5000 is better since it has ECC technology?

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RjL190365

Legend

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None of the Xeons are ideal, I'm afraid, due to their low (or in some cases, extremely low) maximum all-core Turbo clock speeds. (In the case of that Xeon Silver 4114, the maximum all-core Turbo clock speed is only 2.5 GHz, and that CPU requires a super-expensive Socket LGA 3647 motherboard, which is NOT compatible with LGA 2066, just to even run at all.) This is because most of the Adobe apps that you mentioned are not particularly well multithreaded to begin with: Some of the apps in question don't utilize more than eight processing threads, and also respond rather dramatically with increases in the CPU clock speed.

Bill Gehrke

Inspiring

First of all I would disagree with your choice of a Xeon processor for your work. Here is some test data from one of the top custom video editing workstation builders. Save money there and load up on lots more memory. This is just the start of comments