Yeah that Ryzen looks really nice for the money.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-389-8-core-cpu-benchmarks-leaked/

I would choose your CPU based on the best Integer performance you can get, then the best GFLOP performance.

The Vega GPU that should ride along with that is expected to be in the 12TFLOP or 12,000 GFLOP range. So the combination would be pretty nice for Vegas. Plus the Vegas is going to have a Hyperthread like ability for GPU. AMD boards generally have better accessory connectors than the DMI bottle neck of Intel designs. The CPU performance until now has been the limiting factor with AMD CPUs.

You do not get something for nothing in terms of cores. Hyperthreading is supported by the OS, and application generally does not see that low. HT just fills the gaps between the cars on a busy freeway, so that they are bumper to bumper. This increases performance, but not a performance increase of actually having more HT cores.

Vegas these days requires 8+ HT cores for recommended operation. With 8 cores, the memory requirements goes up. 4-8GB per core is generally the rule of thumb. Make sure to choose high density memory DIMMS, and not just fill the board. Place pairs in the dual or quad channel slots and no more. Most memory controllers will not operate fully populated slots in dual channel mode unless the memory is highly matched. Any difficulty in operating in dual channel mode, and the controller will drop back to single channel mode.

How the x370 chipset connects to the Ryzen CPU will be interesting. If they cheap out, the X99 may still offer more overall IO bandwidth, even though the CPU performance is where it needs to be. I have not seen an official chipset block diagram from AMD. If someone knows of one, link it.

Does Vegas Pro take advantage of multiple Threats or just true cores?

Exactly what NormanPCN said. It is the operating system (so, Windows in this case) that decides which application thread is assigned to which hardware core/thread (not any threat, though 😏).

Vegas not only supports multiple threads, it even lets you configure how many rendering threads to use. It is generally recommended you set that value to one less than the total number of threads your hardware supports. So, if you choose a 16-thread CPU, set it to 15; if you choose a 12-thread CPU, set it to 11. That also means that if you go with the 16-thread CPU, your videos should render about 15/11 (roughly 1.4) times faster than using the 11-thread CPU. However, the choice of the GPU will affect the speed as well.

Yeah that Ryzen looks really nice for the money.

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700x-389-8-core-cpu-benchmarks-leaked/

I would choose your CPU based on the best Integer performance you can get, then the best GFLOP performance.

The Vega GPU that should ride along with that is expected to be in the 12TFLOP or 12,000 GFLOP range. So the combination would be pretty nice for Vegas. Plus the Vegas is going to have a Hyperthread like ability for GPU. AMD boards generally have better accessory connectors than the DMI bottle neck of Intel designs. The CPU performance until now has been the limiting factor with AMD CPUs.

You do not get something for nothing in terms of cores. Hyperthreading is supported by the OS, and application generally does not see that low. HT just fills the gaps between the cars on a busy freeway, so that they are bumper to bumper. This increases performance, but not a performance increase of actually having more HT cores.

Vegas these days requires 8+ HT cores for recommended operation. With 8 cores, the memory requirements goes up. 4-8GB per core is generally the rule of thumb. Make sure to choose high density memory DIMMS, and not just fill the board. Place pairs in the dual or quad channel slots and no more. Most memory controllers will not operate fully populated slots in dual channel mode unless the memory is highly matched. Any difficulty in operating in dual channel mode, and the controller will drop back to single channel mode.

How the x370 chipset connects to the Ryzen CPU will be interesting. If they cheap out, the X99 may still offer more overall IO bandwidth, even though the CPU performance is where it needs to be. I have not seen an official chipset block diagram from AMD. If someone knows of one, link it.

Yeah, I'm planning to upgrade to Vega gpu when it comes out, there's still a couple months for it so no worries there, I will take your other advice aswell thanks

A physical CPU core that supports hyper-threading exposes two logical cores which run on the physical core. All software that supports multi-threading will use any CPU core. There is nothing special or unique about hyper-threading. Both logical cores are equal full cores as far as any software is concerned.

For some strange reason I thought that hyperthreading was like having a vtec engine, the more you press the gas the fastest you go, but astar described it as this "HT just fills the gaps between the cars on a busy freeway, so that they are bumper to bumper. This increases performance, but not a performance increase of actually having more HT cores", it's clear to me how TH really works now, thanks Norman