Why most Youtubers use intel i9s/Extremes as their main rig?

[rukspuks]

I have seen many 'tech' YouTubers peddling different processors to the audience but eventually when building their own, they use Intel's extreme editions or i9s. Why is that? Are those goody-goody new things not enough?

[Grimfrost769]

Because they need the crazy power for constant editing, uploading, and streaming. They do alot of things at once.

[Guest]

A lot of them get sponsored. If you're getting sponsored, you ask for the best thing you can get.

[NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle]

If you can afford it, why not buy the best of the best. Creme de la creme.

Or most of them get them for free. The only cost is to make some videos about it.

[Stroal]

6 minutes ago, Grimfrost769 said:

Because they need the crazy power for constant editing, uploading, and streaming. They do alot of things at once.

In my experience, Threadripper is much more suited for this, especially when considering the price.

[RollinLower]

because they are entusiasts themselves mostly too. if you are a car entusiast, are you going for your dream car or a beat up old lada? in the same way lots of tech enthusiasts go for their dream system instead of a i7, eventough an i7 would be enough in most cases.

[Psittac]

4 minutes ago, Stroal said:

In my experience, Threadripper is much more suited for this, especially when considering the price.

But they don't have to consider the price. AMD is better when price is considered, Intel is when it is not considered.

[System Error Message]

i9 or threadripper, i think i'll go with threadripper as its cheaper and has way more PCIe slots to do a multi way many GPU for GPU accelerated multi tasking.

 

A lot of youtubers are sponsored or just talk out of their ass. In the end of the day they dont believe what they preach. Take a look at the latest patch hitting intel making it even worse.

 

I've always been advocating AMD ryzen arch ever since it came out.

[DocSwag]

5 minutes ago, Stroal said:

In my experience, Threadripper is much more suited for this, especially when considering the price.

Not always, in gaming for example threadripper is simply inferior. Many prosumer workloads also demand single threaded performance in which case the i9s are better choices.

 

I don't deny that threadripper offers better value in most cases but a lot of the time these youtubers are sponsored and/or using review samples given to them. There's no doubt that a 7980XE is superior to a 1950x

[Guest]

Intel gives them the processors for free, while amd doesn't. That is why all of them have the top end free intel proccessors.

[Parideboy]

I've never seen a single Youtuber talking any good about the i9 lol

Aside from sponsored videos of course

[Ddarlington36]

2 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Not always, in gaming for example threadripper is simply inferior. Many prosumer workloads also demand single threaded performance in which case the i9s are better choices.

 

I don't deny that threadripper offers better value in most cases but a lot of the time these youtubers are sponsored and/or using review samples given to them. There's no doubt that a 7980XE is superior to a 1950x

I'm sorry but NOBODY is buying a 1950x to game on it i mean you pick the very 1 thing that it doesn't do well its not targeted to gamers infact is not advised to gamers on it. 

Pick any other threshold of comparison and 1950x wins by some pretty stiff margins. I don't think that has any merits when comparing HEDT yeah i'm pretty sure the 7980xe i9 will win head to head amd didn't target the 7980xe it was devloped after the 1950x came out in fact they targeted the i9 7900x the 7980xe was intel response to the 1950x @ twice the cost.

[done12many2]

3 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Not always, in gaming for example threadripper is simply inferior. Many prosumer workloads also demand single threaded performance in which case the i9s are better choices.

 

I don't deny that threadripper offers better value in most cases but a lot of the time these youtubers are sponsored and/or using review samples given to them. There's no doubt that a 7980XE is superior to a 1950x

 

39 minutes ago, Ddarlington36 said:

I'm sorry but NOBODY is buying a 1950x to game on it i mean you pick the very 1 thing that it doesn't do well its not targeted to gamers infact is not advised to gamers on it. 

Pick any other threshold of comparison and 1950x wins by some pretty stiff margins. I don't think that has any merits when comparing HEDT yeah i'm pretty sure the 7980xe i9 will win head to head amd didn't target the 7980xe it was devloped after the 1950x came out in fact they targeted the i9 7900x the 7980xe was intel response to the 1950x @ twice the cost.

 

Notice that he wasn't just talking about gaming?

 

As for the rest of your comment its very obvious that you lack firsthand experience with either x299 or x399 as you're absolutely wrong about the 1950x winning by "stiff margains".

 

Spinning off of your 1950x / 7900x matching, the Threadripper is great for what it is.  An affordable option to the Intel HEDT line, but that's really all it is. 

 

In tasks the take full advantage of all cores efficiently, my 1950x will generally beat out my 7900x.  In anything that falls short of 100% utilization, the 7900x wins. 

 

In any task that efficiently utilizes AVX2, the 7900x beats the snot out of the 1950x regardless of how many cores are used.  

 

In any task specifically single-threaded as mentioned by @DocSwag, the 7900x is considerably faster.

 

Long story short, this means that the 7900x wins most of the times.  

 

This is not to say that the 7900x is better, but that it's a more rounded chip for many things.  If you know for a fact that you will only be doing specific workload like Blender or the like, then sure, buy a 1950x.   Workloads that use all cores efficiently are what I use the 1950x for. 

 

Other than that, the 7900x is a better overall chip.  This is why most content creators on YouTube use the 7900x through 7980xe chips.  They have used both themselves and know which they prefer.  

 

For anyone looking for value, 1950x is a no-brainer.  

 

 

 

 

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, Ddarlington36 said:

I'm sorry but NOBODY is buying a 1950x to game on it i mean you pick the very 1 thing that it doesn't do well its not targeted to gamers infact is not advised to gamers on it. 

They may buy one to SOMETIMES game. Content creators game too.

2 hours ago, Ddarlington36 said:

Pick any other threshold of comparison and 1950x wins by some pretty stiff margins. I don't think that has any merits when comparing HEDT yeah i'm pretty sure the 7980xe i9 will win head to head amd didn't target the 7980xe it was devloped after the 1950x came out in fact they targeted the i9 7900x the 7980xe was intel response to the 1950x @ twice the cost.

Not true at all.

 

From here https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-1-2-CPU-Comparison-Skylake-X-vs-Threadripper-1012/

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From here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu,5167-9.html

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As you can see, there are quite of professional workloads/apps that definitely favor the 7900x. You seem to think that more multi threaded performance is always better for professional, which is just untrue. The 8700k is not universally the best gaming CPU, it's only MOSTLY the best gaming CPU. Same situation with professional stuff. Some stuff likes threadripper but other stuff likes the 7900x.

 

Am I saying you should not get a 1950x? Of course not. It's just that it is most definitely situational. Sometimes the 1950x is a better choice. Other times it's the 7900x.