Laptop or a Desktop which is worth for my use?

[lillo9546]

I yet have a Desktop pc with theese conf

MSI B450 TOMAHAWK

16GB DDR4

R5 3600

RX 570

512GB NVME

 

I am pretty amazed about this pc, but there is a problem.

My personal use of the pc is to do

- video editing in Premiere (normally i would import 4k footage, then it will transcode into a 540p proxy and i will edit in proxy mode so i have smooth playback). My videos are usually 10 minute timelapses or 3/4 hour realtime videos.

- then video rendering from 4k to 1080, into a Apple pro res big file (i dont need to stay at my pc i just leave it and keep it exporting)

- then video encoding with handbrake into an mp4 1080 x264 format (again i dont need to stay at my pc i can just keep it plugged to ac)

- Reference: here come the problem, since i am an artist and i need references to draw, my desktop pc is fixed while a laptop could be detached from ac and bring to the table where i have a big monitor and connect it to an HDMI to have display the big references and zoom and modify as i want. 

 

My thought on my setup are thoose. If i can sell my pc for worth money without a huge loss (a friend of mine is building a pc so i can give him with losing 100 max 150 euros, because he knows that all  parts are perfectly working and used well), and buy thoose 45w laptop new for me that have thoose 8750h or 9750h cpus, will be the same for me? I mean no much change in the rendering and encoding tasks? i saw cpus benchmarks on geekbench 5 and passwmark and score are the same between 8750h and 3600. Also which is the power consumption of thoose new 45w laptop?

 

Thansk tell me also your toughts

[vK 3 1 RON]

I'm not well-versed on video-editing software and it's needs. But I'd imagine from my few hours in After Effects and such that RAM speed and storage device write-speed are also very important for this, so it's good to check out what speed those are (the type too, an NVME SSD is supremely faster than a 7200rpm hard drive) in the laptop. 

 

Someone else will be able to give you much better info but those are my thoughts

[lillo9546]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

I'm not well-versed on video-editing software and it's needs. But I'd imagine from my few hours in After Effects and such that RAM speed and storage device write-speed are also very important for this, so it's good to check out what speed those are (the type too, an NVME SSD is supremely faster than a 7200rpm hard drive) in the laptop. 

 

Someone else will be able to give you much better info but those are my thoughts

Yeah that would be a must i am more interested on how thoose cpus could compare

[Vishera]

36 minutes ago, lillo9546 said:

I yet have a Desktop pc with theese conf

MSI B450 TOMAHAWK

16GB DDR4

R5 3600

RX 570

512GB NVME

 

I am pretty amazed about this pc, but there is a problem.

My personal use of the pc is to do

- video editing in Premiere (normally i would import 4k footage, then it will transcode into a 540p proxy and i will edit in proxy mode so i have smooth playback). My videos are usually 10 minute timelapses or 3/4 hour realtime videos.

- then video rendering from 4k to 1080, into a Apple pro res big file (i dont need to stay at my pc i just leave it and keep it exporting)

- then video encoding with handbrake into an mp4 1080 x264 format (again i dont need to stay at my pc i can just keep it plugged to ac)

- Reference: here come the problem, since i am an artist and i need references to draw, my desktop pc is fixed while a laptop could be detached from ac and bring to the table where i have a big monitor and connect it to an HDMI to have display the big references and zoom and modify as i want. 

 

My thought on my setup are thoose. If i can sell my pc for worth money without a huge loss (a friend of mine is building a pc so i can give him with losing 100 max 150 euros, because he knows that all  parts are perfectly working and used well), and buy thoose 45w laptop new for me that have thoose 8750h or 9750h cpus, will be the same for me? I mean no much change in the rendering and encoding tasks? i saw cpus benchmarks on geekbench 5 and passwmark and score are the same between 8750h and 3600. Also which is the power consumption of thoose new 45w laptop?

 

Thansk tell me also your toughts

A 6 core laptop will be worse,Laptops are heavily are underclocked,and when on battery they are underclocked even more.

The 3600 will beat both CPUs,and mobile GPUs are extremely overpriced and are underclocked too.

 

I tested my 2600 against my brother's 8750H,I beat it no problem.

[GoldenLag]

37 minutes ago, lillo9546 said:

Also which is the power consumption of thoose new 45w laptop?

Performance will be worse between the 3600 and 9750h/8750h 

 

The base clock of the 3600 is much higher at 3,6ghz and not 2,6 which is what the 9750h will run at during rendering. 

 

You should probably look at a secondary device for references. 

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, lillo9546 said:

Yeah that would be a must i am more interested on how thoose cpus could compare

Okay, I don't think that a 9750H or a 8750H could perform better than a 3600. Even if it could, the laptop would likely have slower RAM or slower Storage write-speeds, you haven't quoted any specific model of laptop so it's hard to judge that too harshly, but just to be aware. I think your PC is going to perform better. 

[Vishera]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Okay, I don't think that a 9750H or a 8750H could perform better than a 3600. Even if it could, the laptop would likely have slower RAM or slower Storage write-speeds, you haven't quoted any specific model of laptop so it's hard to judge that too harshly, but just to be aware. I think your PC is going to perform better. 

I tested the 8750H against my 2600,

My 2600 wrecked it.

[lillo9546]

3 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Performance will be worse between the 3600 and 9750h/8750h 

 

The base clock of the 3600 is much higher at 3,6ghz and not 2,6 which is what the 9750h will run at during rendering. 

 

You should probably look at a secondary device for references. 

in terms of time how much approx would it mean? For example, if a video would take 1 hour to render on the 3600, this mean that render on a 8750h would take 2 hours?

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, Vishera said:

I tested the 8750H against my 2600,

My 2600 wrecked it.

Yeah I was just saying "think" because I didn't want to definitely say one way or the other, yeah I know that a 3600 would destroy a 9750H or 8750H but I like to view it as, I'm here to advise and give my personal opinion - and I think that without a miracle, the PC is the better option  

[GoldenLag]

4 hours ago, lillo9546 said:

in terms of time how much approx would it mean? For example, if a video would take 1 hour to render on the 3600, this mean that render on a 8750h would take 2 hours?

Id say it would take about ~1,5 hours. I dont know how much higher than base clock than the 3600 actually runs. Enable PBO and it runs even higher. 

 

Edit: difference could be even higher, but napkin math says about 60% longer rendering time on the 9750h.  Assuming no overclock higher boosts like PBO. And assuming the 3600 rund at its base clock, which it never does.

 

A 4,2ghz overclock or PBO at 4,2ghz would run about 85% faster than the 2,6ghz 9750h. 

 

Note i havent doublechecked these numbers, and its napkin math. 

 

 

Would advice a secondary device. A cheap decent laptop should do the trick.