Looks like i'll stick to the 7900. Now to wait for price drop lol
In the context of content creation. I also don't think getting a 9000 series is worth it for content creation over 7000 series. I don't know why the videos say that it will help.
When we look at benchmarks, we should decide for ourselves
how meaningful those CPU benchmarks for content creation are. I will take this in the context of video editing with Premier Pro 24.5.
1. Export Settings
I made this comparison with the latest version of Adobe Premier Pro 24.5 and the settings below. On the left, the export setting is to export with CPU, and on the right, with GPU. This is shown in
Figure 1.
Figure 1 - Illustration of Software/Hardware Encoding on Premier Pro 24.5
2. File Size Comparison
Figure 2 - File Size Comparison of Hardware vs Software Export.
Figure 2 shows
1. CPU-exported (software) video clip takes way longer than GPU-exported (hardware).
2. CPU-exported video clips have a much larger file size.
Points 1 and 2 determine that CPU export should never be used unless there is an absolute reason to do so. GPU export is the preferred way to go, and the CPU does not play a significant part during GPU export.
3. Benefits of CPU in Editing
https://www.pugetsystems.com/soluti.../adobe-premiere-pro/hardware-recommendations/
Figure 3 - Benefits of CPU in Video Editing
Figure 3 by Pugetsystems describes how a CPU with more cores helps with export times. However, Section 2 of Figure 2 shows that there's already no reason to use CPU export, as it is majorly disadvantageous in terms of both export times and file size. So even if the CPU does help with export time, it is only significant when performing CPU export, which isn't going to be preferred.
PugetSystems further states that having a CPU with more cores is not that impactful when it comes to dealing with live playback, which is true, as live playback is a real-time processing task.
That's something to think about when looking at such benchmarks. Is it relevant?
4. Buying CPU for Editing
There are some things to consider when it comes to getting a better CPU for editing.
1) Your CPU absolutely sucks, and it's a very old gen CPU (this will affect daily tasks that are outside of editing too).
2) You don't have hardware acceleration support (both software and hardware need to have support).
3) You know you have a specific workload that is completely unsupported by hardware acceleration.
Refer to Figure 4.
4) Not operating in a codec supporting GPU acceleration.
Refer to Figure 5.
5) Unlimited funds, can buy just about anything anything.
https://helpx.adobe.com/sg/premiere-pro/using/effects.html#gpu_accelerated_effects
Figure 4 - List of Accelerated Effects in Premier Pro (Last updated on 12 Apr 2023)
https://helpx.adobe.com/sg/x-productkb/multi/gpu-acceleration-and-hardware-encoding.html
Figure 5 - Hardware Acceleration Decoding/Encoding Support in Premier Pro
4. Conclusion
Key Takeaways
1) GPU acceleration significantly reduces export times and file size, so there is no reason to use CPU export unless one absolutely has to.
2) GPU acceleration completely eliminates issues during live playback and editing, which is necessary for a smooth workflow. To further improve this, you will need a CPU with better per-core performance, not more cores (see point 3).
3) That's assuming you already have a healthy number of cores (at least 8 full cores, e cores don't count). CPU upgrades will only matter if there is a further improvement in its per-core performance, as also mentioned in
Figure 3.
4) This is all in the assumption that you are not heavily multi-tasking while performing video editing, and of 4k60 videos that are of high bitrate.
With all these presented facts, it's very unlikely that getting a 9000 CPU will be better over a 7000 series one unless the condition falls within
Section 4, which really means trying to makie hell a lesser hell due to the environment not being properly set up (the real problem).
