broadwell-e or 1080ti?

[DominicNikon]

should i buy a broadwell-e 6 core cpu or a GTX 1080 or 1090ti? im using my computer for playing GTA V and video editing. i have a i5 4670k and a GTX 980 and im on 1080p 60hz

[Rune]

Broadwell-e would be more useful for you.

[Kobathor]

Why not just get a 4790k then use the rest on a new video card?

[DominicNikon]

Just now, Kobathor said:

Why not just get a 4790k then use the rest on a new video card?

its not adding real cores only hypertheading 

[DildorTheDecent]

Would definitely take the extra cores. HT is hit and miss imo. Great for games but not much else really. The benchmarks it's pretty good for. 

[Kobathor]

3 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

its not adding real cores only hypertheading 

It gives improvements in games. Also better frame-time in most games. Unless you're doing crazy video editing, a 4790k will do. Hardware Canucks uses a Skylake 4-core for 4k video editing (6700k.)

[Enderman]

3 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

its not adding real cores only hypertheading 

and its a big improvement in both games and video editing

[daniellearmouth]

16 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

its not adding real cores only hypertheading 

Good enough, and means you don't have to buy a new motherboard.

[DominicNikon]

22 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

It gives improvements in games. Also better frame-time in most games. Unless you're doing crazy video editing, a 4790k will do. Hardware Canucks uses a Skylake 4-core for 4k video editing (6700k.)

but its old now?

[Kobathor]

4 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

but its old now?

It's from 2013. Not that old. It performs hardly worse than Skylake.

[DominicNikon]

1 minute ago, Kobathor said:

It's from 2013. Not that old. It performs hardly worse than Skylake.

how much better in video editing? 

[Kryptyx]

4 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

but its old now?

CPUs have not made any breakthrough changes. It's the same thing year after year with just minor performance improvements. Overclocked 4790k is still one of the best CPUs on the market. Hyoerthreading is a big deal when you're talking about multi-threaded applications.

[DominicNikon]

1 minute ago, Kryptyx said:

CPUs have not made any breakthrough changes. It's the same thing year after year with just minor performance improvements. Overclocked 4790k is still one of the best CPUs on the market. Hyoerthreading is a big deal when you're talking about multi-threaded applications.

how would adding 4 more threads be better option then adding 2 more real cores?

[daniellearmouth]

7 minutes ago, DominicNikon said:

but its old now?

2014 isn't THAT far back.

 

And besides, you'll be getting a significant boost in performance in multithreaded tasks. Like, your workload will easily be sated by a 4790K.

1 minute ago, DominicNikon said:

how would adding 4 more threads be better option then adding 2 more real cores?

Because you would need a new motherboard to even use one of the Broadwell-E CPUs, and as far as cost-effectiveness goes, you'll spend £250 (or $300-something) on a CPU, compared to the potentially £500 (or $600-something) on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM.

And quite frankly, paying twice as much for just two more cores in a CPU in your case would straight up be a waste.

[DominicNikon]

1 minute ago, daniellearmouth said:

2014 isn't THAT far back.

 

And besides, you'll be getting a significant boost in performance in multithreaded tasks. Like, your workload will easily be sated by a 4790K.

Because you would need a new motherboard to even use one of the Broadwell-E CPUs, and as far as cost-effectiveness goes, you'll spend £250 (or $300-something) on a CPU, compared to the potentially £500 (or $600-something) on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM.

And quite frankly, paying twice as much for just two more cores in a CPU in your case would straight up be a waste.

ok so what about my GTX 980?

[Kryptyx]

1 minute ago, DominicNikon said:

how would adding 4 more threads be better option then adding 2 more real cores?

When you factor in the cost difference of the new build it is just silly. You'll need a new board and ram to justify 2 cores (4 threads). If you want to do it then by all means go for it but it isn't really cost effective at all. 

[DominicNikon]

Just now, Kryptyx said:

When you factor in the cost difference of the new build it is just silly. You'll need a new board and ram to justify 2 cores (4 threads). If you want to do it then by all means go for it but it isn't really cost effective at all. 

4790k $288 and broadwell-e $700+

[daniellearmouth]

1 minute ago, DominicNikon said:

ok so what about my GTX 980?

The 980's still good. Stick with it for a fair while more.

[Teddy07]

I personally would wait for AMD Volta

[Kryptyx]

1 minute ago, DominicNikon said:

4790k $288 and broadwell-e $700+

Exactly. It's not cost effective.

[daniellearmouth]

1 minute ago, Teddy07 said:

I personally would wait for AMD Volta

Zen, you mean.

Volta's NVIDIA.

[Teddy07]

2 minutes ago, daniellearmouth said:

Zen, you mean.

Volta's NVIDIA.

Totally right. I ment AMD Vega

[daniellearmouth]

2 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

Totally right. I ment AMD Vega

Oh.

 

That is...literally the first I've heard about it.

[Teddy07]

1 minute ago, daniellearmouth said:

Oh.

 

That is...literally the first I've heard about it.

It is AMDs high end version of Polaris version