4 cores@3.7ghz or 8 cores@2.1ghz

[The Elder Smurf]

I'm looking into an lga 2011v3 editing rig and noticed the E5-2620v4 and the E5-1630v4 are roughly the same price. Now I know the rule of thumb is "more cores=better", but by MY logic, half the cores but almost double the speed should cancel out in multi threaded apps, right?

[MaxBunny]

More cores are only better if the applications make use of them. Quality over quantity.

[Kobathor]

Why not just get a 5820k?

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, The Elder Smurf said:

I'm looking into an lga 2011v3 editing rig and noticed the E5-2620v4 and the E5-1630v4 are roughly the same price. Now I know the rule of thumb is "more cores=better", but by MY logic, half the cores but almost double the speed should cancel out in multi threaded apps, right?

For editing, get a 6800k. You don't need that many cores for ediitn and premiere doesn't scale that well to multi core.

[Zyndo]

If ALL you're doing is heavy compute tasks or graphical rendering or other massively multithreaded things like that, then the 8 core @ 2.1 will be slightly better. But there are SO MANY other games, applications, and programs that cannot take advantage of that many cores, and having faster cores will make everything you do benefit, rather than just the specific scenarios where the 8 cores will excel.

If i were you, I could go with the 4 core. The marginal difference between it and the 8 core when the 8 core excels will be offset by all the other times the 4 core would excel. Of course, I'm more a gamer than a workstation kind of guy, so maybe that's not the case for you, but its what I would recommend since I don't know everything you're going to be doing.

[Thony]

8@2.1Ghz better for rendering, Terrible for gaming.

[Energycore]

15 minutes ago, The Elder Smurf said:

I'm looking into an lga 2011v3 editing rig and noticed the E5-2620v4 and the E5-1630v4 are roughly the same price. Now I know the rule of thumb is "more cores=better", but by MY logic, half the cores but almost double the speed should cancel out in multi threaded apps, right?

THe 2620v4 Boosts up to 3.0GHz so you can expect actual speeds close to that.

 

You could even manually force the CPU to always run at 3.0 although it might need more voltage (more heat) to run at that speed.