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January 28, 2017
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Will New 8 core Ryzen CPU perform well with PPro ?

  • January 28, 2017
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Yibada website is rumoring that the new AMD flagship Ryzen CPU will feature a fully unlocked 8core/16 thread CPU which will maybe equal,or, even surpass the Intel 6900K CPU at a price of between $400 and $499. This price would be HALF of intels current $1,000 for the 6900K !! Considering that tests by Puget systems and others show that an 8 core / 16 thread CPU is a "sweet spot" for most performance tasks with PPro, if true, this news would be welcome to budget system builders. The great question is if the Ryzen CPU will actually perform well with PPro. In the past, the lack of certain " instructions" on AMD CPUs caused them not to be able to compete with the performance of intel CPUs with PPro. Will the same happen this time ?

      I believe the "cache" sizes on the new Ryzen CPU may be smaller along with less Gen.3 PCI lanes. However, at this low price, the PPro performance may be only a little affected....someone will have to test it !!

      Its too bad that the accompanying new AMD GPU " Vega" will not be a considered item because of the exclusivity between NVidia and PPro regarding " CUDA acceleration ". If GPU acceleration were ever to be equal using a Vega vs an NVidia GPU, system builders could REALLY save some money !!

I guess we will have to wait and see what happens. It will be interesting !

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    Anonymous
    January 30, 2017

    Betting pool. This, in some way shape or fashion will be in the updated Mac Pro as AMD is already the GPU provider for said system.

    RoninEdits
    RoninEdits
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    January 28, 2017

    i am also keeping an eye on these new amd products. we won't know how it will perform until someone actually tests it with premiere against the intel cpu's. in the various non-adobe benchmarks i've seen so far, the amd cpu's are pretty close to the 8 core intel. if it ends up being closer to the intel 6 cores it won't be good unless prices are lower than the $400 intel 6 core... for overclockers we also have to figure out how well the amd ryzen cpu can overclock vs the intel 8 core. supposedly the amd cpu will auto boost, sorta like gpu's do, so it might be better for folks who don't like to manually overclock. the other consideration is if there will be any amd cpu bugs in adobe software, like there have been previously. that may be enough to keep "professionals" off amd as the extra cost for intel would be worth the lower risk.

    as far as the gpu's go with vega, i have seen some benchmarks as well as one person who posted their tests with an amd rx card here, and the new amd rx polaris seems to be doing just fine in premiere vs its nvidia counterpart. so i don't have a problem recommending an amd rx to anyone for premiere and vega might also perform well in premiere. we are then just left with cuda only software, which is getting to be a very small list these days. bill's testing shows that memory bandwidth is very important to gpu performance, so amd vega with hbm2 may have a big step up in performance. i think nvidia's refresh of pascal might have hbm, but the gtx 2000 series is a ways off.

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