Any one upgraded from i7-4790k to 1800x?

[hasu]

I want a new machine for Photo Editing primarily using Adobe Lightroom. I might start video editing pretty soon as well.

I can either use an existing machine based on i7-4790k for this purpose or build a new one based on 1800x. What would be my best bet? No budget constraints for either of these two since I rarely build new machines these days.

Thank you!

 

[Elixer]

No budget you say? Threadripper 1920X [12 cores, 24 threads] ($799)

No idea how much a mobo would cost though.

It really depends how hardcore you are with photo editing, if this is professional work, I think it would be worth it. If only casual work, a 1800X is good. i7-4790k is only quad core... (which is also OK for casual work). It just depends on how long you want to wait to get the job done.

 

[rchunter]

4790k is still good especially overclocked. It will work fine for photo editing. If you find yourself getting more into video work and doing a lot of it then build either Ryzen or skylake-x machine.
I wouldn't worry about it though until you are sure you need it.

 

[Headfoot]

Id see how it goes on the 4790k first, it'll probably be quite alright

 

[richierich1212]

Yeah just see how your video editing goes with the 4790K first. Otherwise Ryzen or Skylake-X will be great options as well as the upcoming Threadripper platform of you need more than 4 cores / 8 threads.

 

[Geforce man]

I have found on my wife's pshop machine (Lightroom and photoshop) that the programs heavily favor faster cores over slower cores. For your purposes, an 1800x would be a downgrade. I initially didn't do my research when building the machine, and went with a i7 5820k and x99 setup, when I could have easily just done a socket 1150 setup with a 6700k, which was also available at that time. Max out your ram though, those programs chew through that, especially when doing a ton of layers. Her machine has 32gb, and i'm quickly thinking i'll need to bump it to 64.

 

[cfenton]

If all you are using is Lightroom, then the only thing that improves from having more than four cores is export speed. You're better off with four fast cores than eight slower ones for everything else in Lightroom. I don't do any video editing, so I'm not sure how much that benefits from more cores, other than encoding, obviously.

 

[vissarix]

I want a new machine for Photo Editing primarily using Adobe Lightroom. I might start video editing pretty soon as well.

I can either use an existing machine based on i7-4790k for this purpose or build a new one based on 1800x. What would be my best bet? No budget constraints for either of these two since I rarely build new machines these days.

Thank you!

As you can see more cores wouldnt help you much in this case...So building a new machine is a waste of money for this specific usage..

 

[Glo.]

Ryzen CPUs have the same single core throughput as Haswell and Broadwell architecture. So you would not see any improvements initially.

Bot Ryzen has other side. Because it has made 6 and 8 cores extremely affordable you will see avalanche of application being updated to utilize more cores, and especially - Zen architecture.

So if you will not see improvements immediately, you will see improvements over time.

P.S. If anything, and any build I would consider, professional or gaming workload, I would look either at Ryzen 5 1600 or Ryzen 7 1700, because they give you the most for the price you have to pay for them. 290$ for 8 cores, anyone?

 

[LTC8K6]

Ryzen CPUs have the same single core throughput as Haswell and Broadwell architecture. So you would not see any improvements initially.

Bot Ryzen has other side. Because it has made 6 and 8 cores extremely affordable you will see avalanche of application being updated to utilize more cores, and especially - Zen architecture.

So if you will not see improvements immediately, you will see improvements over time.

P.S. If anything, and any build I would consider, professional or gaming workload, I would look either at Ryzen 5 1600 or Ryzen 7 1700, because they give you the most for the price you have to pay for them. 290$ for 8 cores, anyone?

By the time we see an "avalanche of application being updated to utilize more cores, and especially - Zen architecture.", we will be on another generation of chips.

And the part about Zen is just advertising, imo.

 

[IEC]

You need to look at what applications you run (and will run) and how well-threaded they are. Lightroom isn't exactly well-threaded...

If you have well-threaded apps that scale to more cores (and/or more machines) or plan to heavily use such an app in the near future, then Ryzen is the most efficient way to add a lot of CPU power. From perf/$ and perf/W perspectives, at least.

 

[hasu]

Thanks for all the comments! I am going to install Windows 10 Pro and all my photo editing software in a week or so on to my i7-4790k (which is now Linux Mint). Even though I am not a professional photographer I do take plenty of pictures (always 16 to 24 mega pixel RAW) of various social gatherings of friends and such. It would have been nice to compare this with 1800x just to get a feel.