i7-6700k or i7-5820K for high res game video encoding
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I currently have the 6700K (same deal, just unlocked). I'm no expert in this stuff, but I believe the 5820K would be better. It has more cores and can multitask better than the 6700k. But that's just based on theoreticals. Personally, I believe there is no need for 6 or 8 core processors at the moment, as most programs don't utilize all the cores. I just got the 6700K because its new technology, more future proof, and more powerful per core performance. Again, not an expert, take what I say with a grain of salt.
Simply because of the resolution involved here, the 5th and 6th cores will make a huge difference. However, the 6700K does have a stock clock rate that should make a huge difference as well.
I'd say 5820K wins if you can overclock it somewhere near the 6700K. If you were putting a 4.4GHz 6700K against a 4.1GHz 5820K, absolutely the 5820K. At stock, it's much closer.
Without SLI, you won't be able to generate the FPS needed to really tax the video encoding aspect of that but if you do SLI then you can bet on the recording aspect to take up a huge portion of your CPU's time.
There should be x264 encoding benchmarks for 4K video on the 5820K. Given that part of the CPU would be devoted to steering the GPUs, I'd roughly expect the available performance for encoding to be reduced by a factor of 3 (ie, 30fps becomes 10fps).
I'd say 5820K wins if you can overclock it somewhere near the 6700K. If you were putting a 4.4GHz 6700K against a 4.1GHz 5820K, absolutely the 5820K. At stock, it's much closer.
Without SLI, you won't be able to generate the FPS needed to really tax the video encoding aspect of that but if you do SLI then you can bet on the recording aspect to take up a huge portion of your CPU's time.
There should be x264 encoding benchmarks for 4K video on the 5820K. Given that part of the CPU would be devoted to steering the GPUs, I'd roughly expect the available performance for encoding to be reduced by a factor of 3 (ie, 30fps becomes 10fps).
the 5820k is 6core / 12 thread while the 6700k is 4 core / 8 thread. The 5820k would win in an encoding war but if you OC the 6700k it will beat out a stock 5820k easily.
If you are recording 4k. Get ready to use up that hard drive space quick. You can eat 1-5GB per minute depending on the settings.
If you are recording 4k. Get ready to use up that hard drive space quick. You can eat 1-5GB per minute depending on the settings.
I want to record at 30fps at 4k, ideally - I will SLI if I have to for that FPS, but given that I'm mostly recording indie space games and no AAA titles (Homeworld: DoK is the most taxing game I'll play) I had planned on recording to a M.2 SSD. I was going to OC the 5820k to at least 4ghz. Thoughts? Thanks!
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Noticed convo happening here regarding gpus, thought i'd share as it might interest you instead of going sli. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2966584/980-pascal.html
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