2*Xeon E5440 2.83 Ghz vs i5 3550 3.3 Ghz

funkytwig · Nov 30, 2013

Hi, I am looking at upgrading a video editing desktop. A friend of mine has a Dual socket Desktop with two Xeon E5440 2.83 Ghz, would that be better than my Single CPU i5 3550 3.3 Ghz?

Ben

MC_K7 · Nov 30, 2013

Not worth it IMHO. I believe the Xeon E5440 is based on Core2 technology. At best two of them could be similar to your single i5, so probably not worth changing.

nikoli707 · Nov 30, 2013

the two xeons are much faster than your 3550 in something like video editing... were talking about 8 real cores here. but do people still look for cpus really to do video editing. we have gpgpu apps now that handle video editing and a gtx670/hd7950 are somewhere in the 20 to 600 times faster than any cpu ever made in doing stuff like that.

noidea_77 · Nov 30, 2013

Tell us about the software / programs you are using. That's important, because by far not all of them make use of multi core cpus / multi cpu systems. Most of the video / picture editing software uses the graphics card instead.

funkytwig · Nov 30, 2013

Davinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro. I realise that a lot of the processing is done in GPU but these is also a significant amount of stuff that uses CPU.

Ben

noidea_77 · Nov 30, 2013

That should work with your i5 and a supported graphics card just fine (http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html) Better spend your money on SSD(s) and more ram.

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