AMD Ryzen 7 3700x vs i7-9700k

[Erikoks]

Hey guys,

I hope you doing well.

I wanna buy new PC and can't decide between AMD Ryzen 7 3700x vs i7-9700k. 
I will be using mainly for Ableton Live 10 and gaming.
In Ableton I run some plugins that are CPU hungry and the app usually  crashes.

Please let me know if someone is familiar with this situation

[rEkmAInc1csBnlM6C85H]

Does Ableton use allot of cores or only some core when doing heavy loaded tasks? I am unfamiliar with the software.

[GoldenLag]

unless it uses the iGPU and likes a lot of low latency stuff, then the 3700x is the go-to choice. 

 

tho im not familiar with ableton. 

[Dubba]

From what I know Live 10 can use dozens of cores/threads but performance is going to be limited by the clock speed rather than core count, depending on the amount of tracks in a project of course. If it's still utilizing CPU how I vaguely remember it did, the DAW should run one processing thread per track or parallel chain in a track and it should spread those threads evenly between cores.

I'm using 3700X with Pro Tools and it was a huge leap in performance from my old Haswell Xeon 1230v3. Unfortunately I don't have experience with 9700K..

[Mathieu9836]

AMD at the moment is the go-to CPU if you want the best performance per dollar for general use.

[caldrin]

yeah AMD for sure if you are doing more than just gaming.