Hello All,
I am in the process of speccing out a new desktop.
For those who don’t follow the computer scene, there have been a few significant recent developments.
AMD has leapfrogged Intel in the CPU realm for the first time in a long time (ever?).
Even though Photoshop seems to favor Intel, the AMD 3900X beats the Intel 9900K in PS benchmarks. It crushes the Intel where software is more highly optimized for multi-core architecture. $499 when it comes back in stock.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ries-1529/
There will be a 16 core, 32 thread CPU, the 3950X, released next month for $750.
nVidia has released new video cards that offer significantly better performance/$...
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ance-1548/
They also have unlocked the ability to edit 10 bit color for RTX cards...
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/29/nvi ... photoshop/
I am glad I didn’t buy a computer two months ago!
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agreed that AMD has been shaking up things nicely and the price performance ratio is pretty incredible.
however, unless you use apps that are highly multi-core optimised, the gains are not that great.
specially photoshop for example is pretty poor in using extra cores and the difference is quite small, so other aspects might be the deciding factor (like thunderbolt support etc).
I guess most stacking software will be better optimised and then AMD should provide quite a value advantage. in a lot of cases storage I/O might also affect performance a lot though, so a large fast M2 SSD is important.
10bit display support has been available for quite a while with the right drivers and software, you'll need a good monitor to take advantage of it though.
chris
however, unless you use apps that are highly multi-core optimised, the gains are not that great.
specially photoshop for example is pretty poor in using extra cores and the difference is quite small, so other aspects might be the deciding factor (like thunderbolt support etc).
I guess most stacking software will be better optimised and then AMD should provide quite a value advantage. in a lot of cases storage I/O might also affect performance a lot though, so a large fast M2 SSD is important.
10bit display support has been available for quite a while with the right drivers and software, you'll need a good monitor to take advantage of it though.
chris
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sure, that might be true, but multi-threading is very tricky to optimise for a lot of computer problems.
just check the benchmarks on pugetsystems, even after effects which needs massive rendering and has been optimised for years (if not decades) is not necessarily faster with a lot or cores (if you have enough RAM and fast I/O you can start multiple instances for different frame ranges and work around that though).
where it usually works incredibly well is 3D rendering, which is reflected in the cinema4D benchmark - but even there the GUI performance for example is usually better on a processor with fewer but very fast cores:
https://www.cgdirector.com/cinema-4d-vi ... rk-scores/
just check the benchmarks on pugetsystems, even after effects which needs massive rendering and has been optimised for years (if not decades) is not necessarily faster with a lot or cores (if you have enough RAM and fast I/O you can start multiple instances for different frame ranges and work around that though).
where it usually works incredibly well is 3D rendering, which is reflected in the cinema4D benchmark - but even there the GUI performance for example is usually better on a processor with fewer but very fast cores:
https://www.cgdirector.com/cinema-4d-vi ... rk-scores/
Thanks for the heads-up! I usually follow these, but this had slipped under my radar.
As it happens my current computer is a candidate for upgrade so this is all the more interesting ... and 100%/50% increases in total and single thread benchmarks sound worth it. And I'm not even talking about quite the top processor.
As to programs ... the two that really matter are DPP and stacking and both are pretty good at redlining the processor.
As it happens my current computer is a candidate for upgrade so this is all the more interesting ... and 100%/50% increases in total and single thread benchmarks sound worth it. And I'm not even talking about quite the top processor.
As to programs ... the two that really matter are DPP and stacking and both are pretty good at redlining the processor.