i3 8100 vs i5 9400F Photo/Video

[Salim98]

Hello

I'm currently struggling to decide with a pretty tight budget, little help would be very much appreciated 

I'm mainly a photographer looking to get a PC going on, i use Adobe softwares (Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro)

so i'm confused since adobe introduced this Hardware acceleration thing that works with iGPU, what CPU works better, the 8100 with iGPU or 9400F Without ? i want to get the best performance possible (P.S My graphic card is GTX 1070) 

The i5 is not that far away in price but i want to know first which performs better is my case and gaming performance is not a top priority for me right now, what matters the most is workflow, lag and that stuff. export time not an issue for me just want smooth experience when im working.

 

This is only for some time to come because now things are a bit unstable after that i will be upgrading to something like 8700 

 

Thanks a lot 

[Mister Woof]

If it has hardware acceleration then the 9400f can't take advantage of this feature as it lacks the specific hardware (iGPU) to do it.

 

My understanding is the feature is so powerful for this use that the 8100 with iGPU will probably be faster than the 9400f without.

 

But, I may he wrong.

[Zando_]

5 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

If it has hardware acceleration then the 9400f can't take advantage of this feature as it lacks the specific hardware (iGPU) to do it.

 

My understanding is the feature is so powerful for this use that the 8100 with iGPU will probably be faster than the 9400f without.

 

But, I may he wrong.

IIRC the 9900K will often beat the HEDT i9s in Premiere due to QuickSync support, and those go upt to 18c/36t vs the 8c/16t 9900K. So on a smaller CPU where it's only 2 cores difference it'll probably be a lot better. 

Best of both worlds would be getting a used i5 8400 or 8600. 

[Jurrunio]

9400F since you said export times dont matter

[Salim98]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

9400F since you said export times dont matter

Yes but according to others the workflow will be better on the i3, sadly hard to pass by used I5 8400 where i'm from

thanks a bunch, needed some convincing 

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, Salim98 said:

Yes but according to others the workflow will be better on the i3, sadly hard to pass by used I5 8400 where i'm from

thanks a bunch, needed some convincing 

Quicksync is only used during export. When your editing the preview screen is CUDA accelerated

[Salim98]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Quicksync is only used during export. When your editing the preview screen is CUDA accelerated

That means during editing/scrolling through and assembly iGPU doesn't help with anything? if this quicksync only helps at export then i'll go with the i5

[Jurrunio]

30 minutes ago, Salim98 said:

That means during editing/scrolling through and assembly iGPU doesn't help with anything? if this quicksync only helps at export then i'll go with the i5

yup, only faster with iGPU at the end.