Will I gain or lose gaming performance by upgrading to 5820k and DDR4?

[lexidobe]

I need a 6 core CPU for video editing and rendering. I have a 4790k.

[kameshss]

What's your current specks?

 

Edit: Just saw your profile.

 

You won't see a bit of performance increase in Gaming. (but about 1 - 2 fps extra)

 

But for Video Editing and Rendering, it'll help a lot.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

What would you be upgrading from?

@lexidobe

[The_Stig]

No, you will not lose gaming performance with a 5820k

[Arwanell]

maybe you will lose a bit, since 4790k has better single core performance

but it's negligibile

 

but in rendering/editing it will be a monster

[stealth80]

AFAIK the 5820's are pretty good clockers, Im not sure how the cores compare at the same speed, but if I had my time again I would have gone X99 on my system (at the time I didnt think I would be going m.2 and SLI)

[DunePilot]

I need a 6 core CPU for video editing and rendering. I have a 4790k.

Seems like a waste of money to me... better off buying a used workstation for the sole purpose of work unless you think you can sale the 4790k system for a decent price.

 

Looking at what, 35% increase perhaps? If you can resale might be worth it. But you can pick up a 16 core 32 thread workstations for under $1500 and have a true rendering beast if you actually are going to be using for purely work. Definitely something to consider. Time is money.

[BrightCandle]

You will see some reduction in gaming performance, partly due to reduced clockspeed and partly due to the cache structure on the -E series of CPUs being designed for multithreaded access. In a lot of games its not going to matter but when it does it can be quite a bit slower than just having a mainstream CPU. Its worth about 5 fps in Arma 3 for example.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Most AAA games these days seem to effectively use all 8 thread of my E3-1231v3, so I wouldn't be too worried about losing gaming performance with six actual cores and twelve threads. I imagine you will lose performance in single thread dominated games like Arma III or Far Cry 4 though, since I doubt you'll get as high a clockspeed on a 5820k as you will 4790k.