I'm just about to pull the trigger on a major upgrade. My workload is 99% photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop) and office stuff. Currently I'm running 1st generation i7-930 on Asus P6X58D-E, 24 GB. Crikey slow in editing over time. I'm looking a i5-9600K on MSI Z390-A Pro, 32GB. But now I'm reading that Intel takes a big hit with mitigations for their design flaws. All the Photoshop folks think Intel is much better than Ryzen, but I am unaware of any test that shows how big a hit this particular Intel chip will take, so I'm holding fire. Money is also a concern.
Questions: Will this 9th generation chip take a major hit with the mitigations? Will it be so large that a Ryzen will really compete with it? Is this a good choice seeing as how Lightroom and Phtoshop are CPU dependent? Should I cough up some more for an i7-9700? Or should I feed the hamsters in the CPU more high protein food?
Thanks in advance.
Questions: Will this 9th generation chip take a major hit with the mitigations? Will it be so large that a Ryzen will really compete with it? Is this a good choice seeing as how Lightroom and Phtoshop are CPU dependent? Should I cough up some more for an i7-9700? Or should I feed the hamsters in the CPU more high protein food?
Thanks in advance.