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Is the price/performance ratio worth it with i9 now?
When I built my highh spec machine a few years ago I seem to remember that I would have been paying about £500 more than a decent i7 for about 5% gain in performance.
Stonehedge-
I don't know, I didn't bother looking at the i7 vs i9, as I have my eyes set on the AMD Ryzen series... seems more value for money...
Admittedly, the i9 still gives better single core performance than the Ryzen 3900x (£412 inc delivery from AMD directly), which is currently the best AMD has to offer until the 3950x comes out later this year, but that's like £700+ and I don't think us mere mortals would see any real benefit... maybe it will, but it ain't worth the extra £300...
I know most 3D stuff uses single core, but the multi cores performance the Ryzen gives simply blows the i9 out of the water making the slightly inferior single core performance worth the compromise. And imagine how much joy this would bring when working on a heavy video project!
ExTra
OK, so I am starting over with my PC list, some of you will remember I asked a lot of about a custom PC before Christmas, but I managed to make do with my laptop and I didn't actually have time to do a lot of power hungry stuff over the last 6 months anyway, but I now really do need a super duper PC asap...
I have a pretty good idea what I want, 2 questions here:
Is there any real world disadvantage / incompatibility to use AMD CPU with Nvidia GPU? I know crossfire wouldn't be possible, but I have moved on from wanting to use 2 GPUs, so that wouldn't be a problem for a long time to come, if ever,
Initially, I had my heart set on the Intel i9 with a nice Nvidia card or to go AMD through and through...
However, the new AMD Ryzen 9 3900X is beautiful and cheaper... and after much research into graphics cards with 3D software, Nvidia is the way to go with the renderers I intend to use, so as much as I think AMD is good, I don't really have a choice with what brand of GPU to go with...
Also, I can't make head or tail of these motherboards...