Need help to choose CPU

[agustinpereyra]

I want to buy a new laptop which i will mostly use for video editing in Premiere Pro (4K and 1080p too). I was interested in a few with the Ryzen 9 4900HS but i've seen in some benchmarks that PP takes advantage of intel quick sync so an intel based laptop would be a better choice, is that true? And also is it worth to get a laptop with the 8 core i7 or is the 6 core fine? And does the 6 core i7 perform better that the ryzen 9 in PP? In all of these laptops the GPU would be an RTX 2060 or 2070

[emosun]

Kinda depends what the workload is in premiere as various things use the cpu differently. A lot of time render speed is totally out of the cpu's hands and has more to do with the codec and effect being applied.

That being said , for your use case...... the biggest limit will be the laptops dimensions. The laptop will of course have rather poor cooling and thus your thermals limits will be the bottleneck for your rendering times well outside of any advantages the cpu's may have had in a better case.

So I'd say just pick a laptop you like based on other factors and pray whatever effects you're applying will lean on the gpu when you select it to render.

I myself only found out just this month that the timewarp effect in after effects has not been modified for at least 5 years making it one of the worst optimized effects ever to have the misfortune to render out. lol

[agustinpereyra]

9 hours ago, emosun said:

Kinda depends what the workload is in premiere as various things use the cpu differently. A lot of time render speed is totally out of the cpu's hands and has more to do with the codec and effect being applied.

That being said , for your use case...... the biggest limit will be the laptops dimensions. The laptop will of course have rather poor cooling and thus your thermals limits will be the bottleneck for your rendering times well outside of any advantages the cpu's may have had in a better case.

So I'd say just pick a laptop you like based on other factors and pray whatever effects you're applying will lean on the gpu when you select it to render.

I myself only found out just this month that the timewarp effect in after effects has not been modified for at least 5 years making it one of the worst optimized effects ever to have the misfortune to render out. lol

The laptops i've been looking at have good thermal performance according to the reviews i've seen. I care mostly about having a fluid experience while editing than exporting time itself.

I know some codecs are a nightmare to edit (like sony h264 on the alpha line) and some effects require more gpu than cpu, but i would like to know which of those processors would give me the best editing experience among them.