Buy the 2700X or Wait for 3700X ?

[thelonescaper]

I'm a Video Editor by profession, just planned to build a Video Editing rig for $1000 as following-

CPU- Ryzen 7 2700x

Mobo- MSI Mortar B450M

RAM- Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO 3000MHz 16GB (2x8GB)

GPU- Radeon RX580 8GB OC (As Video Rendering Speed don't effects much by GPU)

But, recently heard about the awesome Ryzen Gen3 Specs (Thanks to TechLinked)

So I'm kind a confused to upgrade my pc, even if I have to asap. as i use an AMD Athlon II X2 255 + 4GB DDR2 + Radeon HD5450 1GB 

 

So without more sh#t talking, the main question is- Should I Wait or Not ?

Please fell free to suggest anything.

[Origami Cactus]

If you can hold out about 2 more months then wait, if you need a machine now build now, the r7 2700x is still a very good cpu.

[Supportsneedlove]

If you wait you could get more cores for the same price or the same amount of cores for less. I'd say wait if you can.

[ThePD]

Wait until CES in January. The CPU's actual specs will likely be confirmed during that time. There you can decide if waiting is worth it or not.

[Jurrunio]

Upgrade now because what you have is absolute garbage. Even if 3rd gen turns out to be impressive, what you can get into the budget is most likely going to be slower anyway because they are new. That said I'd lower the CPU choice to the Ryzen 7 2700 non-X (or even 1st gen Ryzen 7, whichever is cheapest) since that CPU cost less, more than enough to compensate for the worse cooler.

 

also watch out for whether your app of choice uses CUDA or OpenCL. Geforces works with both but Radeons only work with the latter.

[thelonescaper]

so the gen3 will probably released by February by stores right ?

[Jurrunio]

Just now, thelonescaper said:

so the gen3 will probably released by February by stores right ?

no idea. I mean, we arent even certain that AMD will announce Ryzen 3rd gen in CES, it's possible that they just introduce the Zen 2 architecture and then leave the show.

[Princess Luna]

What software do you actually use?

[thelonescaper]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

What software do you actually use?

Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop and sometimes After Effects.

[thelonescaper]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Upgrade now because what you have is absolute garbage. Even if 3rd gen turns out to be impressive, what you can get into the budget is most likely going to be slower anyway because they are new. That said I'd lower the CPU choice to the Ryzen 7 2700 non-X (or even 1st gen Ryzen 7, whichever is cheapest) since that CPU cost less, more than enough to compensate for the worse cooler.

 

also watch out for whether your app of choice uses CUDA or OpenCL. Geforces works with both but Radeons only work with the latter.

I use Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop and sometimes After Effects. which GPU you suggest in 300$ ratio ?

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, thelonescaper said:

Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop and sometimes After Effects.

You should probably do an i7 8700K build instead, as that will perform fairly much better than a Ryzen 7 2700X on what you do for a living while costing about the same for the most part.

[thelonescaper]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

You should probably do an i7 8700K build instead, as that will perform fairly much better better than a Ryzen 7 2700X on what you do for a living while costing about the same for the most part.

actually here in India Amd cpu prices are same but Intel cpu prices are 20-30% more, don't know why. that's why i've chosen the 2700x

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, thelonescaper said:

Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop and sometimes After Effects.

CUDA heavy, so Geforce is better..... 1060 6gb then it is. Try get an 8700k build if there's spare money. Adobe stuff also prefers single core performance more than multicore (though of course just to few fast cores isnt a good idea)

[Origami Cactus]

14 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

CUDA heavy, so Geforce is better..... 1060 6gb then it is. Try get an 8700k build if there's spare money. Adobe stuff also prefers single core performance more than multicore (though of course just to few fast cores isnt a good idea)

8700k doesn't perform 30% better than 2700, so i say the 2700 is better value. I agree with the CUDA thought.

Also the new 3000 series just might close the single core performance gap. So still worth waiting.