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December 5, 2018
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i9 9900K or AMD Threadripper?

  • December 5, 2018
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Alrighty, I'm upgrading gear and trying to figure out if I should get the AMD Threadripper or the i9 9900K, what do you all think?

Also, I am thinking either the RTX 2070 or 2080 and 32 Gb RAM.

I use premiere more than anything for multi-camera editing. I'm using a 1st Gen i7 980x with a GTX 680. So, I'm very excited to make this upgrade! I was thinking i9 9900 but the benchmark is so much better on the AMD (e.g. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X) (PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End ). I have read that AMD sometimes doesn't work with premiere though. Also the three comparison puts the 9900K in the lead of all CPU's!: (PassMark CPU Benchmarks - Single Thread Performance )

I sometimes use photoshop, illustrator, lightroom, audition, and would love to be inspired by a better performing machine to learn some new things like maybe some animation.

One thing that I invested in was some software to do 360 tours which requires processing very high resolution photos, at least 36 per 360, and creating 360 virtual tours. This was killing my computer. So, I'm hoping to get something that will improve this workflow significantly as well as make premiere editing profoundly smoother and rendering faster.

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Participant
February 11, 2019

Just don't buy the Threadripper.

Got one myself and the performance is more than horrible. My 5 years old Laptop runs better.

As you can see here I'm not the only one...

Better Threadripper Support – Adobe video & audio apps

Adobe seems to be aware, but doesn't give a sh*t about it apparently... as always.

NeofilmAuthor
Inspiring
February 11, 2019

Thanks!!! sorry to hear about your problems, but at least you're helping others by sharing your experience! Hey, maybe it will work better with DaVinci Resolve? You should try it, it's free, however, the h.264 format may be sluggish on the free version.

NeofilmAuthor
Inspiring
December 5, 2018

Thanks Stan, in the meantime, if someone would like to share their specific to my situation suggestions and reason that would be very helpful. Thanks again.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 5, 2018

I like the Puget benchmarks that are specific to Adobe software. Here is one; browse their site for other options.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2018-Core-i7-9700K-i9-9900K-Performance-1254/

NeofilmAuthor
Inspiring
December 5, 2018

It's odd how they say right off in the first paragraph

"It is unlikely that these new 9th Gen CPUs will be able to keep up with the highest-end processors from Intel and AMD, but for those on a bit more of a budget there is a chance that the i7 9700K and i9 9900K will be a great choice."

What 9th gen processors? Aren't they talking about Intel? This makes no sense to me unless they're talking about 9th gen something else.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 6, 2018

Neofilm  wrote

What 9th gen processors? Aren't they talking about Intel? This makes no sense to me unless they're talking about 9th gen something else.

They're referring to the i9 K series; the i9 X's are the highest-end from intel.

I am not an expert in this area; I'm also looking...

My shorthand for K vs X is that the K's often had a higher base clockspeed, but fewer cores (and cheaper).