intel i7 8700k or ryzen 7 2700x for 4k editing?

To answer the question: intel i7 8700k or ryzen 7 2700x for 4k editing?

Neither. Do not edit in 4k.

ERGO: Use proxies @ 1/4 SD quality and watch either processor "rip" through the timeline

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I feel like anyone using PROXIES in the timeline might agree that Premiere is just as fast as Resolve, FCP, even Avid...

I suspect anyone trying to edit 4k footage without proxies is going to have more concerns than simply the processor...

I use Premiere.

I have an Intel system from Puget

I run 5 monitors

I plan to upgrade to RYZEN simply based off the overwhelming stats available online.

If it sucks, ill just sent it back and pop an Intel back in.

For me, the prospect of editing BMCC 4k RAW files... without proxies... even the mere mention of such a thing - is horrifying.

Some great videos to consider:

Is RYZEN Really Better For Video Editing? - YouTube this video is important. you need to decide what kind of VP you do.

Ask things like "do I need motion tracking? do I need the stabilizer feature? do I use AfterFX in my workflow?"

Yes? then go INTEL,

if no, then RYZEN is the one for you.

3 Months With Ryzen 7 - Was The Switch Worth It? - YouTube

This video is also important to consider

(its good info, however, I suspect there are other factors at play with his 3 month review, such as configs, BIOS and graphics cards)

How to Use Proxies to Edit 4k Video FAST | Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial - YouTube

How to use Proxy Files to Edit SUPER FAST in Premiere Pro! - YouTube

Benchmark

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-8700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-2700X/3937vs3958

Final thoughts:

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-9700K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-3700X/4030vs4043

As a Mac user who has used FCPX and Premiere Pro, it really isn't comparative. FCPX is a nice application that is utterly optimized for macOS. However, it lacks a lot of pro features that Premiere Pro and other NLEs don't have.

And to get a decent baseline iMac with good specs (say a 27" non-pro, 4-core it 4.2GHz, with 32GB, a 1TB SSD and Radeon 580. That is $3700 without tax and non-upgradable. Similar spec iMac Pro at $5000.

Now, you need less horsepower if you are using FCPX, but I can tell you this. I own a 13" MBP. i7 maxed out (i7, 16GB, 1TB SSD) and it is a dog in FCPX. It can render a lot faster than Premiere can on the same platform, but still a dog.

So, since video has become more consistent in my everyday, I am considering my first desktop PC build in 8 years. I have been debating Ryzen v. Intel and I am strongly leaning towards an 8700/8700k right now.

I'm trying to make the same decision as you right now, and yeah, it's a hard one.  Here are a lot of similar comments that I've heard throughout my research:

• Adobe is better optimized for Intel/single core speed, so choose Intel.
• Don't use premier, switch to a better editing program and get Ryzen
• You can as much as halve your export time with the "hardware acceleration" option in premier, but it only works with some Intel Cpus, and not Ryzen at all.  So choose Intel.
• Some say "hardware acceleration" ruins quality of clips, others disagree.
• Even if you use Adobe, as long as you're doing a lot of multi-tasking that can use multiple cores, the Ryzen is the better choice.

As you can see, it's kind of hard to really choose "the best" CPU for Content Creation.  It seems like Intel is the best choice at the moment if you are using Adobe, *but,* what if down the line you decide to switch editing programs, or you end up doing a ton of heavy multitasking?

Yeah, I'm not helping, I know.  These are just all the questions I ask myself as I prepare to make my own choice.

It just so happens that that export time is how I and you can judge the efficiency of your CPU's tuning for running Premiere.  So the lower that score is, the better the chances are that you can play a time line without loss of frames.  But it goes to show you that it all depends the media and what processing you are doing.  So your 30-40% CPU usage will only your project and media and the next guy will have more or less CPU usage

Here is a complex project with 7-layers and many different media show lots more CPU usage 40-100% on my 8-core with all cores involved.

It's quite simple, the better the hardware you get the more CPU power will sit IDLE, get a 6 core and you might get 50% load on timeline, get 8 core and you might get 30%, no matter the cpu cores you will still stabilize with 1 core in several minutes, i know, other software do this in seconds with all cores.

Right now Adobe Premiere pro is the worst optimized software you could edit on, it's a joke to benchmark anything on this.

If you have something decent like a 7700k or 6700k i don't recommend an upgrade.

Best advise would be to ditch Adobe for davinci resolve or final cut.

Just on a technical basis after looking at this Cinebench single threaded and multithreaded test results I would easily select the Ryzen 7 2700X processor.  We know that Puget's testing showed the i7-8700K ideal for AE with its single threaded architecture.  But this new guy the Ryzen 7 2700 X has very good single threaded performance and only slightly less that the i7-8700K, but much, much better multithreaded performance for Premiere.  So it depends on what primarily use.  Sorry, but I do not know what dynamic link software architecture uses, but as you can see even if it is single threaded technically I would still choose the Ryzen

EDIT!

I just found the Puget data for AE and the new Ryzen's.  It does not change my conclusions above for multiple Adobe CC programs, I still think I would go with the Ryzen 7 2700X 

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