1950x or i9 7900
The type of video editing you are doing matters.
Intel may be better depending on the software you are running, regardless of cores.
Adobe After Effects, for example, scales horribly with cores and an 8700K will perform 10%~ better.
This is just an example.
However, I would argue that overall, a 2700X is the best value for your money for a 4K setup, since the Wraith Prism does a great job at even supporting XFR to 4.2ghz (as I've seen in my friend's 4K video workstation I put together for him).
Quicksync really doesn't matter in professional applications, as you will want a real video card with dedicated VRAM for preview rendering as well as boosted exports in applications that support it for that.
Honestly, if you have the kind of money you have since you are considering HEDT, i would consider the following:
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AMD Ryzen 7 2700X w/ Stock Cooler
- This will work splendidly and you really aren't going to go much higher than 4.2ghz anyway, so the stock cooler and allowing XFR to do its thing is fine.
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64GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- Video Editing applications gobble up system memory. If you have the money for HEDT, then I would say that you have the sweet spot money for the Adobe Suite, including After Effects and Premiere Pro
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Samsung 970 Pro For System
- I push the Pro over the EVO strictly because of the high rated writes. Overall, the 970Pro/EVO is the fastest NVME M.2 on the market for this type of work.
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Samsung 970 Pro For Project Files
- You want to idealy separate your project files from your OS and applications. I would recommend the Pro since this is where you are going to be reading/writing your project files. You could also put in a separate drive to write to if you want as well :).
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Geforce GTX 1070
- 8GB VRAM for project rendering and preview rendering. Also, the faster graphics cards on the market do not scale relatively in video editing performance. Plus, the 1070 is still a beast for gaming, so this is the sweet spot if you are serious about video editing.
So to recap, RAM and Storage are probably far more important than everything else with the budget that you are insinuating that you have as they are the most expensive.
A 2700X is plenty for most software. Though an 8700K competes and is better in some applications due to poor optimization, the fact is that you are saving $100~ on a cooler, which can go into the other parts of your system.
I would stay away from Radeons for video rendering just because CUDA is widely supported, especially in the Adobe suite. OpenCL is supported too, but CUDA really does have a leg up.
I hope this helps :).
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