What CPU do i need?

[Simon Bruun]

Hi 

 

I've been an Intel fanboy all my life, and it hurts me to see the latest LTT video about the the "i9 9980XE" (no, not because of the intro) - What is going on over at blue team ??

 

I've been a casual PC builder from around the Pentium 166Mhz era, and never once had an AMD PC. Back then, there is a lot of hate going on against AMD, and I guess that just stock with me, and made me root for the Intel all my life.

I've also been a gamer all my life, and still going strong. But for last few years I've been more and more into 3D posing, and rendering, and would like my next build to be more focused for 3D content creation, but at the same time, not completely neglect my gaming experiences. 

 

I badly want Intel to release some next gen CPU (could it be the 10nm?), that would make the decisions easy for me. But, if I was to buy a CPU today, it looks like I would need to put on a red T-Shirt, and get an AMD.

Just checking out the basic score at passmark.com, it is crazy to see the Threadripper 2950X beat the i9-7960X, witch is a 1000$ more.

 

I still got my setup from this old thread, except i traded my 1080ti for a 2080ti. 

 

I consider myself a patient man, but I think I have confused patience, with a naive hope. Hope that Intel will release my custom made CPU, that is really good at gaming, and really good 3D rendering, but not an over the top 2,000$ chip.

 

I guess if I wanted to stay blue, the i9-7920X (or maybe i9 9920XE) would be ideal, but skylake almost seem like a curse word now a days. I've watched endless videos about CPU's, and hearing the words "Just another iteration the Skylake" again and again, is making me cringe, when thinking about getting a new Intel CPU. 

 

I guess I basically just want my expensive 2080ti to be the bottleneck of my PC, in both gaming or 3D Rendering. 

 

A confused, and defeated blue fan looking for comments and suggestions. 

[r2724r16]

Intel's been slacking lately, and that's no secret. Performance from their side is amazing. however it isn't a good value compared to some of AMD's offerings. For the first time in a while, it actually makes sense for a person to buy an AMD CPU for content creation.

[Worstcaster]

It is Intel's job to bring you the consumer what you need and what.  If they are not providing it than going with AMD is probably your best choice.  It may even help Intel in the long run.  If they listen to want people are telling them and start producing chips that can compete in both price and performance with the AMD chips then they can win back that customer base.  If AMD if best for your needs now, then buy AMD.  When you need to build your next set up after this you can check and see if Intel finally made the improvements to win you back to them.

[Cereal5]

@bleedblue I think he’s talking about you

 

If you still want to game I’d go for something like a 1920X so you can get a bit more clock speed out of it. I think the 1950/2950X still OCs well though. I mean Intels mainstream CPUs are still good (8700K,9700K). The 9900K is pretty pricey but it’s still good. Not 1920X good for rendering etc, but still good, cause that’s about what price matches up to. 

[KhandakeF]

Intel's probably gathering nature energy so they could go sage mode on AMD

[Rune]

I'm quite happy with my 9900k in video rendering and gaming, but before this I had a 6850k so it was a fairly large step up in terms of processing power and I don't need more than 20 pcie lanes.

[bleedblue]

 

 

42 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

@bleedblue I think he’s talking about you

Eks Deee

 

Brand loyalty's silly. Just get the best you can at the price point you're in.

[porina]

52 minutes ago, Simon Bruun said:

I guess if I wanted to stay blue, the i9-7920X (or maybe i9 9920XE) would be ideal, but skylake almost seem like a curse word now a days. I've watched endless videos about CPU's, and hearing the words "Just another iteration the Skylake" again and again, is making me cringe, when thinking about getting a new Intel CPU. 

 

I guess I basically just want my expensive 2080ti to be the bottleneck of my PC, in both gaming or 3D Rendering. 

I kinda feel like if all these 'tubers don't like skylake-X, give them to me. I'll give it a comfy home. Feed some smooth voltage. Massage in some thermal compound...

 

Anyway, if you want the fastest CPU for gaming while doing other stuff on the side, 9900k is probably the choice.

 

However hidden under the 9980XE wave is the 9800X, which I think is my next CPU purchase. Do check if it might suit your use cases though. It wont be as good as the 9900k at pure gaming numbers, but you get more PCIe slots, more ram channels, and AVX-512. It only costs a little more than the 9900k and X299 mobos aren't much more either. If you're serious about a system like this, the difference shouldn't be a barrier.

 

There isn't anything to fear about the name Skylake, as there's practically zero architecture difference between the -lakes, apart from the different cache structure of the -X parts. From memory the 1st gen Skylake-X parts were actually based on same process as Kaby Lake, so you got a bit more clock out of them than consumer Skylake if you overclock. I'm not sure it has been stated anywhere what process they used for the refresh.

[Magus]

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[wasab]

AMD moAr cores!!!