2950 vs 3950 vs 5900?

[BPsentinel]

Budget (including currency): 1500

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: davinci resolve, fusion, blender

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have a 750w psu, and a 480 amd gpu.

 

My question is about the above mentione cpu-s. So I do not play games, at all. Tried, but sorry, it is not for me, but I enjoy  content creation a lot, so I would like to make videos and effects and so on with the programs I listed, mainly I am learning davinci resolve. My laptop has a i7 6820, and... so it would be useful to speed it up, but instead of spending on it, I would better spend on a new one, but which of the above mentioned cpu-s would be better for me? I will wait with a new gpu, probably in the next 6 month when the price drops enough, I will buy 2pcs of 2080ti, but I might have the budget next month to invest in a mainboard, 32gb cl14 ram, and one of the cpu-s above, but I cannot decide which one would be the best for davinci resolve. The price for all of those is around 500-600 eur, so what do you think? Which one would be the best for that?

 

[svmlegacy]

1 minute ago, BPsentinel said:

Budget (including currency): 1500

Country: Germany

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: davinci resolve, fusion, blender

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have a 750w psu, and a 480 amd gpu.

 

My question is about the above mentione cpu-s. So I do not play games, at all. Tried, but sorry, it is not for me, but I enjoy  content creation a lot, so I would like to make videos and effects and so on with the programs I listed, mainly I am learning davinci resolve. My laptop has a i7 6820, and... so it would be useful to speed it up, but instead of spending on it, I would better spend on a new one, but which of the above mentioned cpu-s would be better for me? I will wait with a new gpu, probably in the next 6 month when the price drops enough, I will buy 2pcs of 2080ti, but I might have the budget next month to invest in a mainboard, 32gb cl14 ram, and one of the cpu-s above, but I cannot decide which one would be the best for davinci resolve. The price for all of those is around 500-600 eur, so what do you think? Which one would be the best for that?

The 3950X would be your best bet for total throughput. It also is more readily available than the 5900X, and has cheaper motherboards than the 2950X.

[BPsentinel]

Oh okay, my current laptop is a msi gt73vr 6re

I7 6820

32gb 2400 cl14 ram

1tb samsung 970 plus m.2 ssd

2tb seagate hdd

 

I have 2 screens plus the laptop screen

Aoc 32" 1440p

And a noname piece of sh1t 24" fhd in pivot

 

But from a old rig what was used for mining, I have a decent 750w psu.

[BPsentinel]

2 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

The 3950X would be your best bet for total throughput. It also is more readily available than the 5900X, and has cheaper motherboards than the 2950X.

That is what I thought, thank you very much! For 2 gpu that 20pcie channel is enough I think, what do you think, will the price of the 3950 drop significantly in the next 2 months? Should I wait 2-3months, or it is not that much of a difference?

 

On the other hand, is there any benchmark between these 2 cpu-s, so I wonder how much of a difference would it mean in rendering...

[svmlegacy]

50 minutes ago, BPsentinel said:

For 2 gpu that 20pcie channel is enough I think

How the PCIe lanes are distributed is completely up to the motherboard. Regardless, there's no point for you in going multi-GPU.

50 minutes ago, BPsentinel said:

will the price of the 3950 drop significantly in the next 2 months?

Don't bank on it. The 3950X is still a good value for those who can use it. Just make sure to get it on sale.

50 minutes ago, BPsentinel said:

is there any benchmark between these 2 cpu-s

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-dive-review-5950x-5900x-5800x-and-5700x-tested/14

[BPsentinel]

On the one side I really do not know how davinci is using multi gpu, but I know for a fact that blender can distribute rendering to many gpu-s, it scales nicely. I won't start with it but that is a future problem. For now I will settle with a 3950 with a x570 motherboard, and my spare 480 amd gpu until summer brings enough videocards for the public, and hopefully 2080 prices drop. As I saw the davinci, and what I do with it is cpu intensive, when rendering the 1070 is almost at idle, so I hope that this setup will give some oomph to the rendering speed...