Video Editing Question - CPU

[MasterProTech]

Hi i planning to do video editing and i am wondering if should get 1 Xeon six-core cpu or 2 Xeon four-core cpu (both have hypertheading and made around 2009-2011). I am planning to use Adobe Premiere Pro. so which one should i get

[SquintyG33Rs]

the one with the fastest single core performance

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, SquintyG33Rs said:

the one with the fastest single core performance

I thought video editing benefited from higher multithreaded performance.

[MasterProTech]

Just now, SquintyG33Rs said:

the one with the fastest single core performance

But video editing is more relied with cores than clock speed and i am wondering if i have 2 cpu it uses all the cores

[MasterProTech]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I thought video editing benefited from higher multithreaded performance.

yea true, i wonder if it will use all 4 core in each cpu if it only uses one cpu then i would rather go with a six core cpu

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, MasterProTech said:

yea true, i wonder if it will use all 4 core in each cpu if it only uses one cpu then i would rather go with a six core cpu

I'm pretty sure you want the best multithreaded performance. However, you'll see better performance if you can spread the workload over two 8 thread CPUs. Although that would depend on Adobe's programming to allow for multiple CPUs.

 

I would say just get the 6 core Xeon.

[SquintyG33Rs]

4 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I thought video editing benefited from higher multithreaded performance.

to an extent yes but i'm pretty sure premier doesn't scale across that many and so a faster single core will boost the render time more than the potential extra cores.

the same way graphics acceleration for video rendering only affect certain transforms which in the end doesn't make a difference nearly as big as you see in 3D rendering where a GPU is almost a live rendering machine compared to the CPU.

 

i didn't recommend either of the two directly because the 4 core xeons might be faster than the 6 core one because they have less cores. and in that case they are always going to be better than the 6 core, for both multi threaded work and single threaded.

[SquintyG33Rs]

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'm pretty sure you want the best multithreaded performance. However, you'll see better performance if you can spread the workload over two 8 thread CPUs. Although that would depend on Adobe's programming to allow for multiple CPUs.

 

I would say just get the 6 core Xeon.

dual CPU doesn't have to be explicitly supported by the software itself. it's a windows level support. the software only sees the threads so 1 or 2 CPU isn't a problem outside of the latencies that the cross talk introduces

[Evanair]

I've used both Dual CPU and Single-Higher clock CPUs.  Prior to them removing the Multi-core rendering in AE, the dual CPU's would have been better.  CC has removed this, go with the 6 Core.

 

Creative Suite has a hard time taking advantage of tons of threads, hell, half my threads on my 1800x sit dormant while rendering.

[MasterProTech]

1 minute ago, Evanair said:

I've used both Dual CPU and Single-Higher clock CPUs.  Prior to them removing the Multi-core rendering in AE, the dual CPU's would have been better.  CC has removed this, go with the 6 Core.

 

6 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'm pretty sure you want the best multithreaded performance. However, you'll see better performance if you can spread the workload over two 8 thread CPUs. Although that would depend on Adobe's programming to allow for multiple CPUs.

 

I would say just get the 6 core Xeon.

 

1 minute ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

dual CPU doesn't have to be explicitly supported by the software itself. it's a windows level support. the software only sees the threads so 1 or 2 CPU isn't a problem outside of the latencies that the cross talk introduces

Thanks,

 i will most likely go for 1 six core cpu for my video editing system.

[ZcanKal]

If you have enough of a budget, then the i7 8700k would be better at single and multithreaded performance compared to the old Xeons.

[Crunchy Dragon]

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[Crunchy Dragon]

6 minutes ago, ZcanKal said:

If you have enough of a budget, then the i7 8700k would be better at single and multithreaded performance compared to the old Xeons.

It would have to be a pretty big budget to allow for an 8700K, Z370 motherboard, and DDR4 memory.

[ZcanKal]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

and DDR4 memory.

Especially the DDR4.