Coffee Lake and Ryzen

[Swag]

So I'm going to be upgrading to an entirely new PC in about a month's time (currently running 3570k and RX580 8GB, the GPU will go into the new build), and I was planning on going with Ryzen because on the side from gaming, I do a lot of pretty heavy work in Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, often running a few Adobe products at the same time. I also stream sometimes, too.

 

Now I don't really follow PC tech much anymore so I was wondering if the new 8th gens from Intel are relevant to me at all or is Ryzen still the way to go for my needs?

Cheers

[Max_Settings]

We have no way of knowing until they actually come out.

[Swag]

Just now, Max_Settings said:

We have no way of knowing until they actually come out.

Ah, thanks.

[Princess Luna]

I think you'll benefit more from the i7 8700k since it is supposed to match the Ryzen 7 1700 multi-threaded performance and a lot of the software you named like Photoshop and Premiere do benefit from stronger faster cores.

 

your multi-tasking will be reduced a little but if you can adjust the tasking you have will better over all experience.

[Swag]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

I think you'll benefit more from the i7 8700k since it is supposed to match the Ryzen 7 1700 multi-threaded performance and a lot of the software you named like Photoshop and Premiere do benefit from stronger faster cores.

Interesting; I'll have a look into it a bit more. Thanks!

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Swag said:

Interesting; I'll have a look into it a bit more. Thanks!

It will basically go as this, you'll not be capable of running as many software as you would with Ryzen at the same time but those software you do have running will perform better on Intel while you remain inside its capacity.

 

6c/12t already is a lot of power, if this was between the i7 7700k with only its 4c/8t and Ryzen 7 then Ryzen would've won yes but the i7 8700k is a different story ;]~

[Swag]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

It will basically go as this, you'll not be capable of running as many software as you would with Ryzen at the same time but those software you do have running will perform better on Intel while you remain inside its capacity.

 

6c/12t already is a lot of power, if this was between the i7 7700k with only its 4c/8t and Ryzen 7 then Ryzen would've won yes but the i7 8700k is a different story ;]~

Awesome, very helpful. Thanks for the info.

[Cyracus]

depends on if you feel an upgrade in the future is something you'd be interested in, AMD will be on am4 for a few years and I believe they're far from done disrupting the cpu market, this upcoming year we should see a refresh of ryzen I expect to be much better than the first wave of chips, in part because the major bugs have been worked out of the platform. Intel is likely to make z370 a single gen chipset which would mean no upgrade path 

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8 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

depends on if you feel an upgrade in the future is something you'd be interested in, AMD will be on am4 for a few years and I believe they're far from done disrupting the cpu market, this upcoming year we should see a refresh of ryzen I expect to be much better than the first wave of chips, in part because the major bugs have been worked out of the platform. Intel is likely to make z370 a single gen chipset which would mean no upgrade path 

Ah that's actually something I hadn't even considered. I've had my current build since 2012 (except the GPU which was bought early 2017), so I'm not really one to be upgrading a lot. Though I will say I don't want to get stuck in that loop of waiting for the next update/refresh because you could do that forever and never buy anything lol.