AMD 3800X or 3900X for graphic desig, video editing and 3D rendering/

[yoshiii]

Hello,

 

Which cpu will be best for graphic design, video editing and 3D rendering?  The AMD 3800X or the 3900X? 

I know there is a shortage of 3900X right now.  Should I hold off for the new Threadripper cpu's? Should I consider the i9 9900K? 

I will game on the pc but the design and editing, rendering are the main purpose for it.

[Jarno.]

hi @yoshiii

 

I would recommend to wait for new Threadripper. The news I saw about it is quite promising.

Release in November i think? So it is not that far away.

 

 

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

 

What's your budget/country and monitor resolution/refresh rate?

What rendering software? If it's blender you just want 2-4 GPUs depending on your workflow.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Jarno. said:

hi @Yoshii

 

I would recommend to wait for new Threadripper. The news I saw about it is quite promising.

Release in November i think?

They might only be releasing Threadripper 3000 with the 24 core CPU. maybe a 32 core CPU as well.

[yoshiii]

4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

What's your budget/country and monitor resolution/refresh rate?

What rendering software? If it's blender you just want 2-4 GPUs depending on your workflow.

 

 

They might only be releasing Threadripper 3000 with the 24 core CPU. maybe a 32 core CPU as well.

USA

 

I am choosing a monitor now but will be 1440p or 4K at 144hz

 

Will use Lightwave and Octane. Blender too for some things.

 

[ThePD]

How long before you decide to create his new build? Might the 3950X be something worth looking at. Releases the same time as the Threadripper chips talked about above. Might meet your needs without costing you as much as a TR but giving you significantly more performance than the 3800X or 3900X.

[yoshiii]

4 minutes ago, ThePD said:

How long before you decide to create his new build? Might the 3950X be something worth looking at. Releases the same time as the Threadripper chips talked about above. Might meet your needs without costing you as much as a TR but giving you significantly more performance than the 3800X or 3900X.

About a month or two.

[ThePD]

1 minute ago, yoshiii said:

About a month or two.

Might be worth the wait. Puts you right in the middle for price/performance. November release time if I recall.

[yoshiii]

2 minutes ago, ThePD said:

Might be worth the wait. Puts you right in the middle for price/performance. November release time if I recall.

Sounds cool

[Streetguru]

1 hour ago, yoshiii said:

USA

 

I am choosing a monitor now but will be 1440p or 4K at 144hz

 

Will use Lightwave and Octane. Blender too for some things.

 

Octane appears to be CUDA only, so more than likely get a 1080ti and a 2nd one at a later date, but what's your budget? It's going to have the most VRAM for the money.

[yoshiii]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Octane appears to be CUDA only, so more than likely get a 1080ti and a 2nd one at a later date, but what's your budget? It's going to have the most VRAM for the money.

I plan on buying the RTX 2080ti. 

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

I plan on buying the RTX 2080ti. 

You can get 2 or close to 3 1080tis for the same price and it's going to be faster, unless you are going specifically for ray tracing stuff.

[yoshiii]

7 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

You can get 2 or close to 3 1080tis for the same price and it's going to be faster, unless you are going specifically for ray tracing stuff.

I dont really want to take a risk with buying used gpu's that are no longer made.  Not spending that much for them. 

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

I dont really want to take a risk with buying used gpu's that are no longer made.  Not spending that much for them. 

They aren't even old GPUs, there's no risk, ebay has tons of buyer protection anyways.

You're going to have 50% more performance than what a single 2080ti can do.

There's 2 MSI duke cards available
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-Duke-11GB/223676144500?epid=245282127&hash=item3414231b74%3Ag%3AzFkAAOSwVildh4Wt&LH_BIN=1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DUKE-11G-OC-Graphics-Card/293242458266?hash=item44469cd09a%3Ag%3Aw9gAAOSwaQhdht2t&LH_BIN=1

Otherwise there's this lot of 2.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DirectX-12-GAMING-X-11-GB/323899467395?epid=26003449389&hash=item4b69e9a683%3Ag%3AzmoAAOSwnstdaWKl&LH_BIN=1

 

[yoshiii]

13 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

They aren't even old GPUs, there's no risk, ebay has tons of buyer protection anyways.

You're going to have 50% more performance than what a single 2080ti can do.

There's 2 MSI duke cards available
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-Duke-11GB/223676144500?epid=245282127&hash=item3414231b74%3Ag%3AzFkAAOSwVildh4Wt&LH_BIN=1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DUKE-11G-OC-Graphics-Card/293242458266?hash=item44469cd09a%3Ag%3Aw9gAAOSwaQhdht2t&LH_BIN=1

Otherwise there's this lot of 2.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DirectX-12-GAMING-X-11-GB/323899467395?epid=26003449389&hash=item4b69e9a683%3Ag%3AzmoAAOSwnstdaWKl&LH_BIN=1

 

Thanks, Ill look into it.

[yoshiii]

4 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

Thanks, Ill look into it.

Two ?

 

[yoshiii]

18 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

They aren't even old GPUs, there's no risk, ebay has tons of buyer protection anyways.

You're going to have 50% more performance than what a single 2080ti can do.

There's 2 MSI duke cards available
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-Duke-11GB/223676144500?epid=245282127&hash=item3414231b74%3Ag%3AzFkAAOSwVildh4Wt&LH_BIN=1
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DUKE-11G-OC-Graphics-Card/293242458266?hash=item44469cd09a%3Ag%3Aw9gAAOSwaQhdht2t&LH_BIN=1

Otherwise there's this lot of 2.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-DirectX-12-GAMING-X-11-GB/323899467395?epid=26003449389&hash=item4b69e9a683%3Ag%3AzmoAAOSwnstdaWKl&LH_BIN=1

 

Are  you familiar with monitors?

 

[Streetguru]

21 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

Are  you familiar with monitors?

 

For pure production stuff I'd go for a 32" 4k IPS display, it should have 100% sRGB which is likely good enough.

If you also do gaming, then just go for a 1440p 21:9 120hz display they're around $400 for a probably has good sRGB, and $550 for a has 100% sRGB
 

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[Kinda Bottlenecked]

5 hours ago, yoshiii said:

USA

 

I am choosing a monitor now but will be 1440p or 4K at 144hz

 

Will use Lightwave and Octane. Blender too for some things.

 

 

Which program do you render with?

[yoshiii]

50 minutes ago, Pohernori said:

 

Which program do you render with?

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I will use both Lightwave and use Octane when best used and Blender for some things.

 

[Streetguru]

1 hour ago, yoshiii said:

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I will use both Lightwave and use Octane when best used and Blender for some things.

 

Turns out there's a video for 2 1080tis. 2080s would also work, but those only have 8GBs of VRAM.
 

 

[yoshiii]

1 hour ago, Streetguru said:

Turns out there's a video for 2 1080tis. 2080s would also work, but those only have 8GBs of VRAM.
 

 

Thanks

 

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

3 hours ago, yoshiii said:

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I will use both Lightwave and use Octane when best used and Blender for some things.

 

 

Well as in do you solely use octane to render your works or do you use the cycles engine in blender as well? 

 

Can I ask whats your work flow like?

[yoshiii]

3 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Turns out there's a video for 2 1080tis. 2080s would also work, but those only have 8GBs of VRAM.
 

 

How about two 2080ti's ?

[Streetguru]

9 minutes ago, yoshiii said:

How about two 2080ti's ?

More than likely the render engines will scale with up to 4 GPUs

Otherwise you might want a Titan RTX simply because it's the only one with 24Gbs of VRAM, which may be useful depending on the application. Also it may have some pro driver optimizations

But really I'd just start with 2 1080tis, and if those aren't good enough, you have a 30 day return window anyways, if they work out you may consider adding more, probably consult their forums though.

And in those cases you might want threadripper 3000
 

 

[yoshiii]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

More than likely the render engines will scale with up to 4 GPUs

Otherwise you might want a Titan RTX simply because it's the only one with 24Gbs of VRAM, which may be useful depending on the application.

But really I'd just start with 2 1080tis, and if those aren't good enough, you have a 30 day return window anyways, if they work out you may consider adding more, probably consult their forums though.

And in those cases you might want threadripper 3000
 

 

So should I have one machine for doing photoshop, graphics, illustrations and have the other one for rendering and video editing?