I need to choose the Right hardware balance

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September 15, 2020
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Okay I will keep it simple ,

Lets say you want to spend Total of ~$2100 for CPU + GPU for Video Editing PC (ONLY NO GAMING)

What is the right balance ?

1- Spend $1400 on 24 cores Thread Ripper 3960X , AND $700 for RTX 3080 ,

OR

2- Spend $600 on i9-10900K 10 corses CPU , AND $1500 for RTX 3090

The rest of the system will be the same , 128GB RAM , 2 TB NVME SSD , 10TB HDD .

Please Experts replies only from people who render movies using 4K resolution .

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It depends on which video codec that you'll be primarily be working with. Because Premiere Pro still does not natively support hardware H.264 or HEVC playback using anything other than an integrated Intel GPU, if you'd be working directly with those codecs (as opposed to transcoding them to a more edit-friendly codec), then the 10-core i9-10900K will be almost as fast as that 3960X. But if you are willing to take a few minutes of your time transcoding to an intermediate editing codec, then the 3960X is the better CPU. However, the integrated Intel on-CPU graphics is disabled by default when a discrete graphics card is installed, and therefore must be force-enabled at BIOS level in order to enable QuickSync decoding. If that were to be the situation permanently (with the iGPU completely disused), then the 3960X is by far the better CPU.

In either case, the current version of Premiere Pro cannot fully utilize any of the GeForce 3000 series Ampere-architecture GPUs (just like the very newest available versions of Premiere Pro are now just beginning to show a distinct performance advantage of the 1600- and 2000-series Turing architecture over the previous-gen 1000-series Pascal architecture). For that matter, neither will the first few point releases of the next major version that is due to be released this November. As a result, neither the RTX 3080 nor the RTX 3090 will be sufficiently faster in Premiere Pro than an RTX 2060 Super to justify such a higher cost (at least not for the first year or two after those GPUs are released). In other words, the software needs to catch up to the hardware in order to justify such a 3000-series purchase.