Is there a point where extra processing cores are overkill in Vegas?
We are putting together a new workstation that will be used 90% of the time for vegas editing and rendering. All either full HD or 4k videos.
With dual XEON chips, we have lots of options. With faster-clocked 6-core or slower clocked 10 core chips somewhat similar in price, any advice on which way to go?
First, a little more info:
The other 10% of the time our system will probably be running hitfilm or after effects (older version that takes advantage of multiple processors).
So the system we are looking at will have a solid state OS drive (maybe a new Intel 750 1.2GB) and the 'work drive' will be a RAID0 set of 2TB SSDs (Samsung Pros or similar). We will also have another SSD as the 'render to' drive for the final product.
We are looking at the Titan X 12GB Video Card.
So our real question is which XEON chips we should choose.
Remember we are getting two of them
In the running currently (but we are open to other suggestions)
E5-2667 v3 - 8-core 3.2GHz
E5-2650 v3 - 10-core 2.3GHz
E5-2630 v3 - 8-core 2.4GHz
So the question is, for Sony Vegas, should we opt for more cores or faster GHz?
Thanks for your opinions!
Andrew
ps - I know there are lots of past threads regarding this, but it is usually regarding XEON vs i7 and not actually regarding the number of cores.
We are putting together a new workstation that will be used 90% of the time for vegas editing and rendering. All either full HD or 4k videos.
With dual XEON chips, we have lots of options. With faster-clocked 6-core or slower clocked 10 core chips somewhat similar in price, any advice on which way to go?
First, a little more info:
The other 10% of the time our system will probably be running hitfilm or after effects (older version that takes advantage of multiple processors).
So the system we are looking at will have a solid state OS drive (maybe a new Intel 750 1.2GB) and the 'work drive' will be a RAID0 set of 2TB SSDs (Samsung Pros or similar). We will also have another SSD as the 'render to' drive for the final product.
We are looking at the Titan X 12GB Video Card.
So our real question is which XEON chips we should choose.
Remember we are getting two of them
In the running currently (but we are open to other suggestions)
E5-2667 v3 - 8-core 3.2GHz
E5-2650 v3 - 10-core 2.3GHz
E5-2630 v3 - 8-core 2.4GHz
So the question is, for Sony Vegas, should we opt for more cores or faster GHz?
Thanks for your opinions!
Andrew
ps - I know there are lots of past threads regarding this, but it is usually regarding XEON vs i7 and not actually regarding the number of cores.