Hello! This is my first post here after lurking for several months.
My wife wants a new computer for her photography business / our home office. Her usage will be heavily based around Photoshop and its related software as well as spreadsheet work. Home use will be the basic stuff as well as some moderate gaming. We will have a 1440p monitor. Multitasking capability is appreciated because as of right now, when Photoshop is running its processes, the computer is basically unusable until its done.
We currently have an old MacBook Pro with the (now ancient) Intel i5 520M 2.4Ghz chip.
My main question is what CPU and chip set to get? Which CPU would have a better future proof outlook? ( i7 7700k or a Ryzen 7 flavor)
My current thoughts are that the Intel chip provides great single thread performance and lags behind the AMD on multi threaded stuff. Intel is well supported and very stable at this point and Ryzen is new, has a few bugs, and needs some more time to get worked out. The better gaming performance that Intel has currently is not all that important to us as gaming is not as high a priority.
However, Intel will likely be moving away from the 1151 socket soon where as AMD has plans for several years on the AM4. Should a new/better AMD chip come out, upgrading would be easier.
The future path of AMD looks promising because we need this system to last another 5 years or so before we need another major upgrade. Also hopefully more cores will be taken advantage of by developers in the future so the Ryzen might eventually get more mainstream support.
Basically it looks like i7 7700k offers more power and stability right now but with very limited upgrade potential and Ryzen is slightly behind and less stable? but with a hopefully brighter future both with programming and future socket plans.
Sorry for the wall of text. If you need any other info just ask. My wife wants to make sure we have a solid plan before I can pull the trigger on the parts list.
By the way our budget is around $1800 to $2000 USD not including the monitor and accessories.
My wife wants a new computer for her photography business / our home office. Her usage will be heavily based around Photoshop and its related software as well as spreadsheet work. Home use will be the basic stuff as well as some moderate gaming. We will have a 1440p monitor. Multitasking capability is appreciated because as of right now, when Photoshop is running its processes, the computer is basically unusable until its done.
We currently have an old MacBook Pro with the (now ancient) Intel i5 520M 2.4Ghz chip.
My main question is what CPU and chip set to get? Which CPU would have a better future proof outlook? ( i7 7700k or a Ryzen 7 flavor)
My current thoughts are that the Intel chip provides great single thread performance and lags behind the AMD on multi threaded stuff. Intel is well supported and very stable at this point and Ryzen is new, has a few bugs, and needs some more time to get worked out. The better gaming performance that Intel has currently is not all that important to us as gaming is not as high a priority.
However, Intel will likely be moving away from the 1151 socket soon where as AMD has plans for several years on the AM4. Should a new/better AMD chip come out, upgrading would be easier.
The future path of AMD looks promising because we need this system to last another 5 years or so before we need another major upgrade. Also hopefully more cores will be taken advantage of by developers in the future so the Ryzen might eventually get more mainstream support.
Basically it looks like i7 7700k offers more power and stability right now but with very limited upgrade potential and Ryzen is slightly behind and less stable? but with a hopefully brighter future both with programming and future socket plans.
Sorry for the wall of text. If you need any other info just ask. My wife wants to make sure we have a solid plan before I can pull the trigger on the parts list.
By the way our budget is around $1800 to $2000 USD not including the monitor and accessories.
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