worth the upgrade from 3930 to 6850?

[schwett]

hi all, it's been a while since i tinkered with anything. with the release of broadwell-e i7 CPUs i'm hankering for an upgrade, and also to pick up some SSD performance.

my current rig:

3930K (asus rampage iv gene)
32gb DDR3 1066
GTX 770
240gb OWC PCIe SSD (one of the original ones)
a bunch of big drives for primary storage

i do mostly a lot of photo editing in bridge and photoshop, a fair amount of 3d modeling and rendering in 3ds max, and other general compute stuff. not much gaming.

for $2500 i'd go to the following:
6850K (asus x99-m)
64gb ddr 4 3200
gtx 1070
1tb ocz rd400 m.2 drive

but i'm wondering, will the upgrade really be worth it? cpu benchmarks seem barely 15% better. obviously more memory and faster video will help some things, but i spend a fair bit of time waiting for photoshop to filter/render/demosaic and i'm not sure these upgrades will make a big difference there.

any input appreciated - if there was an easy way to slap a modern nvme ssd in my current rig and boot off it, i'd probably just do that and the 1070, but that doesn't look easily possible.

 

[UsandThem]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/552?vs=1728

My vote would be wait a little bit longer. There is probably not as much performance difference as you had hoped, but really it comes down to your needs.

 

[schwett]

maybe i should just get a regular (not NVMe) upgrade for my ssd and a gtx 1070. the cpu gains seem minimal. i would have expected much faster memory would help some of those benchmarks out more...

 

[UsandThem]

maybe i should just get a regular (not NVMe) upgrade for my ssd and a gtx 1070. the cpu gains seem minimal. i would have expected much faster memory would help some of those benchmarks out more...

That's the route I would go if I were in your shoes. The 3930k still holds its own against Intel's latest, and is still a very viable CPU.

 

[RaistlinZ]

For your use, it seems you'd benefit most from more cores/threads.

 

[UsandThem]

For your use, it seems you'd benefit most from more cores/threads.

Agreed.

The upcoming Skylake X and Kaby Lake X might be worth upgrading to. It just depends on what the benchmarks show when they finally do arrive. However, there was also such high hopes for Skylake when it was first announced, and it largely landed with a "meh" from most people who were on Sandy Bridge and later CPUs.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...-and-skylake-w-processors-in-q2-2017.2475298/

 

[mnewsham]

If you do upgrade to broadwell-e (I'd recommend waiting however), you have no reason to get the 6850k over the 6800k. For your uses they're identical and the 6850k simply costs more for literally zero advantage.

If you had triple GPUs or a huge RAID array or something maybe the 6850k would make sense, but in your proposed upgrade the 6850k is just money down the drain compared to the 6800k.

 

[schwett]

interesting - wouldn't the small bump in clock be worthwhile? it seems to bench about 5% faster.

thanks to all for the replies. seems like waiting is the best approach.

 

[mnewsham]

interesting - wouldn't the small bump in clock be worthwhile? it seems to bench about 5% faster.

thanks to all for the replies. seems like waiting is the best approach.

They're both unlocked and both overclock to ~4.4GHz, I dont see how you can make a case for 30% larger price tag for 5% increased clock speed when they both overclock to the same exact speed.