Encoding Performance

Handbrake is a popular awarding for encoding video and we've used it to catechumen a 4K H.264 video to 1080p using H.265 and recorded the average frame rate. The 1950X was half dozen% faster than the 7900X in this test, not a huge gain but given both CPUs cost the same amount it's a practiced result for the Threadripper CPU. That said the 1920X does cost 33% more than the 7820X and withal it was just five% faster here, so a less impressive result for AMD in that comparison.

The Premiere Pro CC results involvement me the well-nigh every bit I spend a lot of time rendering these 4K videos on my Core i7-6950X editing machine. Back when I first reviewed the Core i9-7900X I said that I planned to probably supervene upon my 6950X with Threadripper.

Still, I also noted that the current version of Premiere Pro CC isn't that skilful at taking advantage of loftier core count CPUs and as a result the 7900X was just 4% faster than the 6950X, then a bit of a disappointing result in that location. This criterion is CUDA-accelerated by a GTX 1080 Ti so continue that in mind, merely in that location aren't a huge amount of effects in my videos for the GPU to accelerate.

Given that the higher-clocked 7900X was just 4% faster than my 6950X and both are 10-core parts, I wasn't hopeful for Threadripper to save me much time. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised when the 1950X took but 128 seconds to render the i infinitesimal thirty seconds sample video. That's a 12% comeback over the 7900X. Meanwhile the 1920X was too just 7% slower than the 7900X.

All of this is to say that it looks indeed similar my next build will employ a Threadripper processor -- the 1950X specifically.