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I work in AV & often have several Aftereffects, Photoshop, Premiere projects open, along with ffmpeg encodes running in the background, with a Windows VM running hefty and poorly optimised media server production software and a load of proprietary, poorly optimised 32-bit control programs.
32GB gets munched in a second and I find myself having to consciously manage which projects to close, which VM to suspend...
Mine has the 2.3GHz i9, apparently the 2.4GHz is materially faster as it’s a better-binned piece of silicon and runs at lower voltages for a given turbo state than the 2.3.
What’s been a real game changer for me is being able to exploit the T2 chip’s hardware-accelerated h.265 encoding via ffmpeg. Delivering previews to clients has never been so quick.
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Mine has the 2.3GHz i9, apparently the 2.4GHz is materially faster as it’s a better-binned piece of silicon and runs at lower voltages for a given turbo state than the 2.3.
That's interesting - I'd read almost the opposite of that but goodness knows where so probably just nonsense and not on somewhere like r/videoengineering
I think that's the thing - I see a lot of promise in the new M series chips but it ain't there yet and the current gen intel are still solid things (particularly with the 5600m).
So long as they don't drop support off a cliff for bootcamp for at least a few year it'll do me fine.
I've used beefy but aging desktops twinned with underpowered laptops for ages but traveling around to shoots means it's tough to do remote edits / preview stuff shot in 8k to clients on the fly. Main thing is I want to have (near to) desktop performance, mobile so I can use a single machine and not have to archive Resolve databases / duplicate projects etc.
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What's your use case with 64GB?
I'll probably give it another month or so to see if they slip out a 10th gen intel upgrade but very much doubt it. Then will pick up:
2.3GHz 8-core 9th-generation i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz
64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB of HBM2 memory
4TB SSD storage
But not sure on CPU and whether to opt for the higher option (2.4GHz 8-core 9th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz)
I'll mostly be using it in Mac OS and working in Resolve and Fusion but I'm a sucker (for my sins) for bootcamp gaming (PUBG mainly) so don't trust parallels etc for competitive games and am concerned the higher CPU will throttle faster or if you disable that then the lifespan will be greatly reduced. Only want to play in 1080p so hoping I'd get 3-5 years out of it without very noticeable slowdown.