I had been hoping to hold out for the new Ryzen 9 chips but my server threw a fan blade on the CPU about a month ago so I ended up buying new guts for my workstation and moving the guts of my workstation to my server. Most of these benchmarks are exactly the types of load I do so the performance uplift is very compelling to me. But I have some concerns especially around AV1 encode. I see numbers forAOM AV1 for my current CPU that are in the 36 FPS range but I have never gotten above 0.1 FPS in real world testing. Now my encodes are 4K rather than the Full HD encodes the tests do but still I have to wonder if the bench tests are some how offloading some of the work to the GPU and that is where the performance is? I also couldn't find what video card is being used for the Intel tests. That is important as for most of my graphics work flow the CPU is twiddling it's thumbs while the GPU is on the verge of meltdown. I also wonder how much of the uplift is better encoders as Michael rides the bleeding edge where as I stick to what Fedora, Redhat & RPMFusion have available. There have been a lot of improvements in encoders over the last year especially the AV1 encoders.
Bottom line is this has me very intrigued. If I can knock an hour off of an encode simply by swapping out the CPU it becomes a no brainer for me. I'm just not convinced I will see that kind of gain. In any case I don't have to worry about that yet as my next purchase will be a 6800XT or 6900. After that I will look at where I sit and possibly circle back to looking at the CPU again.
Bottom line is this has me very intrigued. If I can knock an hour off of an encode simply by swapping out the CPU it becomes a no brainer for me. I'm just not convinced I will see that kind of gain. In any case I don't have to worry about that yet as my next purchase will be a 6800XT or 6900. After that I will look at where I sit and possibly circle back to looking at the CPU again.
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