3990x Threadripper or dual-7742 Epyc

[papadilton]

Hypothetically, on an unlimited budget, what option would be better in what general categories, 3990x Threadripper or dual-7742 Epyc. Epyc has more memory support, and you can get more PCI-E lanes by going dual-socket, but the Threadripper has higher clocks. Categories include; Gaming, HPC, Video Editing, Crypto Mining, Future-proof, and any others you can think of. 

[Badger906]

you'd be hard pressed to stress a 5900x in any of those tasks! their use case would be more for a work station running VMs. none make any sense from a gaming point of view either. unlimited budget.. id pour most of it into a couple of 3090s. yeah sli is dead. but for rendering and encoding.. 12k footage isn't you limit there!

[papadilton]

16 minutes ago, Badger906 said:

you'd be hard pressed to stress a 5900x in any of those tasks! their use case would be more for a work station running VMs. none make any sense from a gaming point of view either. unlimited budget.. id pour most of it into a couple of 3090s. yeah sli is dead. but for rendering and encoding.. 12k footage isn't you limit there!

This is more of a question of which is more important; let's take the top examples of gaming and vid editing, which is more important, higher applied memory capacity, or 25% larger clock speeds?

[BTGbullseye]

5 hours ago, papadilton said:

This is more of a question of which is more important; let's take the top examples of gaming and vid editing, which is more important, higher applied memory capacity, or 25% larger clock speeds?

Clock speeds, by a LONG ways. Even a Ryzen 1600 can support more RAM than you will ever need for those use cases, and quad channel won't appreciably impact those workloads in comparison.