Benchmarks from my 6800k to - 2950x Threadripper build

iggy097 wrote on 12/2/2018, 11:40 AM

Thought I’d share my results from the upgrade to my editing system. Old system was i7 6800k, Asus rog Strix X99 Mobo, MSI GTX 1080, 32GB Trident Z Ram. Watercooled and overclocked to 4.1 on 6 cores.

New system is AMD 2950x Threadripper, Asus Rog Strix X399 Gaming mobo, GTX 1080ti on waterblock, 32GB G Skill Flare X 3200 14 Ram. Watercooled and on PBO with Ryzen Master. Slight OC to the GPU as well (+75/+200) – Ram is stable at 3066 – couldn’t get it stable at 3200.

Rendering was done in Vegas Pro 16 NV Encoder when available. Footage was 4K 24p from Sony A7iii

Vegas Pro Results – 10 minutes of 4K footage from Sony.

Corsair Results

Render to 4K - 8:26

Render to 1080 – 4:48

Render to 640 WMV – 6:25

Render to 4K with Looks – 19:18

Render to 1080 with Looks – 7:13

Render to 640 with Looks – 5:32

Threadripper 2950x Results

Render to 4k – 5:47

Render to 4k (game mode) – 6:57

Render to 1080 – 3:07

Render to 640 WMV – 2:17

Render to 4K with Looks (NV Encoder) – 16:13

Render to 4K with Looks (AVC Encoder) 22:12

Render to 1080 with Looks 6:06

Render to 640 with looks 2:42

Comments

astar wrote on 12/2/2018, 1:46 PM

Seems like the results and complaints of others, it would seem there is an optimization problem with either Windows or Vegas on that system architecture.

What if you ran 4x instances of Vegas all rendering different clips? I would think you would see more of an improvement over 6800k doing the same. Obviously only the 1st instance of Vegas would have GPU support.

iggy097 wrote on 12/2/2018, 3:15 PM

Running multiple instances is beneficial - that does use all the cores correctly.

john_dennis wrote on 12/2/2018, 3:22 PM

I try not to get involved with hardware in the middle of my four year machine cycle, but I do have one observation.

It seems the user interface of the software is getting less colorful while some system builds are getting more colorful.

fifonik wrote on 12/2/2018, 3:49 PM

Nice observation. It is getting harder to get bell bearing case fan to replace noisy one without any colourful LEDs and whistles. Or case without huge window on the side and again a number of LEDs.

Back to the topic: I expected bigger differences. Looks like VP cannot utilize all these CPU "multi threadings" and everything is limited by the new GPU.

karma17 wrote on 12/2/2018, 4:23 PM

If you don't mind me asking, what was your final cost on the Threadripper system?

iggy097 wrote on 12/2/2018, 4:33 PM

If you don't mind me asking, what was your final cost on the Threadripper system?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6cwRyX - 2800ish

iggy097 wrote on 12/2/2018, 4:34 PM

Nice observation. It is getting harder to get bell bearing case fan to replace noisy one without any colourful LEDs and whistles. Or case without huge window on the side and again a number of LEDs.

Back to the topic: I expected bigger differences. Looks like VP cannot utilize all these CPU "multi threadings" and everything is limited by the new GPU.

And of course it depends on what codec you are rendering with as well. The Magix NV encoder uses my GPU quite a bit - and doesn't use the CPU as much as I'd like.

Where is WMV really uses the CPU to it's potential.

iggy097 wrote on 12/16/2018, 2:29 PM

After dialing in my memory timings and GPU OC - as well as a few other settings - was able to get my benchmarks significantly higher.

OldSmoke wrote on 12/16/2018, 3:00 PM

I think it's time to upgrade my system.