Intel i9-9900 vs AMD TR 1950x Video editing

petrolhead

uning Premier Pro CC, mainly 1080

Which CPU would you choose and why

next010

Anandtech benchmark database allows comparison of the two, though it doesn't bench Premier it does do Handbrake and Cinebench.

Intel CPU's are really good at video encoding, I would say if it's just for video go with the Intel, the AMD TR is no slouch either but costs a lot more.

petrolhead

Cinebench R15 Single Threaded
Score (Higher is Better)
amd 164
intel 216
Cinebench R15 Multi-Threaded
Score (Higher is Better)
amd 3017
intel 2032

Handbrake 1.1.0 - 1080p60 x264 3500 kbps Faster
Frames Per Second (Higher is Better)
amd 259
intel 229
Handbrake 1.1.0 - 1080p60 HEVC 3500 kbps Fast
Frames Per Second (Higher is Better)
amd 215
intel  226

In Cenebench this is probably where the delama is between Intel and AMD.  Intel wins with its 5ghz but amd wins with its cores.

Then there is overclocking.  once the AMD is clocked to 4.1ghz it starts to get hot putting strain even on an AIO cooler.  The Intel is ok but again once you get to 5ghz it also suffers from heat

This is interesting - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Multi Core Performance

Suggesting that once you get to 8 core its dimminishing returns.

Then there is cost, based on todays prices from Overclockers:

Intel: i9-9900k = £500, motherboard £160.  Total=£660
AMD: TR 1950x = £560, motherboard £300. Total=£860 and from what I can see no mATX boards

noiseboy72

Premiere Pro does most of the rendering on the GPU, so the processor is of less importance than with some other programs. Make sure you have a really good graphics card and you should be able to render very quickly.

Personally, I prefer the Intel products. My work video editing and graphics workstation has the Xeon / NVidia combination in an HPZ440 workstation. Blazing quick and the fans fire up once in a blue moon to anything above idle.

petrolhead

I think you may find thats its Davinci Resolve that does most of the rendering on the GPU.  Premier Pro is more CPU based and little difference in performance bwteeen a GTX 1060 and GTX 1080ti

Premiere Pro CC 2018: NVIDIA GeForce vs AMD Radeon Vega

noiseboy72

I'll be honest, that's not been my experience. Resolve tends to be much more processor hungry and definitely runs slower for many basic editing task than Premiere.

I know that Premiere never played well with SLi cards and some consumer grade cards don't give the level of expected performance. The Quadro cards do work very well and I found that 4 tracks of video, some effects and a bit of audio would render in about 4x normal speed - so 60 minutes of video would render in 15 minutes.

There are quite a few plugins that do render only on the CPU, but I'm always careful to avoid using these whenever possible.

petrolhead

Recommended System: Recommended Systems for DaVinci Resolve

However I now think the question is irrelevant for my needs as there are no mATX motherboards for Threadripper at the mo so will go for i9-9900k

Will start a new thread re which Mobo to buy

Thanks for your help