i5 4590 vs. i5 4690 rendering and editing

[ThanosB]

Hello,

I'm building a new pc and I am thinking of using it for a bit of rendering and editing in the future. Will I see a big difference between these 2 CPUs? Will the i5 4690 will be a lot faster than the 4590? The differnce in my country is 17€.

 

[raisonjohn]

Just to answer your question. For 17 euros, not much difference.

But my recommendation, since you will be rendering and editing, is to go with a 4-core with Hyper-Threading Technology (making the 4 core perform on 8 threads). All i5's do not have HTT, so that's the disadvantage and I feel you won't get your money's worth. Get the i7, or if you are on a very tight budget, the Xeon.

Additional info: you also want to have your RAM as 16GB (2x8GB) for your work.

 

[blasc]

Just to answer your question. For 17 euros, not much difference.

But my recommendation, since you will be rendering and editing, is to go with a 4-core with Hyper-Threading Technology (making the 4 core perform on 8 threads). All i5's do not have HTT, so that's the disadvantage and I feel you won't get your money's worth. Get the i7, or if you are on a very tight budget, the Xeon.

Additional info: you also want to have your RAM as 16GB (2x8GB) for your work.

basically, all of this

 

[ThanosB]

Just to answer your question. For 17 euros, not much difference.

But my recommendation, since you will be rendering and editing, is to go with a 4-core with Hyper-Threading Technology (making the 4 core perform on 8 threads). All i5's do not have HTT, so that's the disadvantage and I feel you won't get your money's worth. Get the i7, or if you are on a very tight budget, the Xeon.

Additional info: you also want to have your RAM as 16GB (2x8GB) for your work.

I won't be doing a lot of it and I can't afford an i7. Will a Xeon E3-1220 V3 be able to game and edit a lot better?

 

[blasc]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

 

[ThanosB]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

a 4590 is plenty fast enough for rendering for most people.

 

[blasc]

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

then get the 4590.

 

[ThanosB]

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

then get the 4590.

Great! Thanks!

 

[raisonjohn]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

If the 4460 is way cheaper than the 4590 and 4690, I recommend to save money and get that instead (since you mentioned that gaming and editing is not really your priority).

 

[ThanosB]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

a 4590 is plenty fast enough for rendering for most people.

I'll be just fine with that then!

 

[ThanosB]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

If the 4460 is way cheaper than the 4590 and 4690, I recommend to save money and get that instead (since you mentioned that gaming and editing is not really your priority).

It is about 25€ cheaper. Do you think it would be better to pick that one?

 

[raisonjohn]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

If the 4460 is way cheaper than the 4590 and 4690, I recommend to save money and get that instead (since you mentioned that gaming and editing is not really your priority).

It is about 25€ cheaper. Do you think it would be better to pick that one?

Definitely! Price-performance wise it will get the job done for your needs. There is only a very slight difference in core clock speed and you won't be using that difference for the priorities that you listed (that is, programming and casual gaming/editing).

 

[ThanosB]

good enough for gaming, much better for rendering. If rendering is your priority, go for the Xeon

It is not my priority for now. For now it is a lot of programming and gaming on my free time. I'm thinkin of making videos when I have a lot of free time. Maybe I will go with the 4590 since there is not much difference between this and the 4690.

If the 4460 is way cheaper than the 4590 and 4690, I recommend to save money and get that instead (since you mentioned that gaming and editing is not really your priority).

It is about 25€ cheaper. Do you think it would be better to pick that one?

Definitely! Price-performance wise it will get the job done for your needs. There is only a very slight difference in core clock speed and you won't be using that difference for the priorities that you listed (that is, programming and casual gaming/editing).

Ok thanks a lot! Maybe i'll do that...unfortunately I picked another best solution too early and I don't know if I can change it. The best solution is definately yours. Thanks again!

 

[blasc]

best solution changed, as requested by the OP.

 

[ThanosB]

best solution changed, as requested by the OP.

Perfect! 😛 How can I do it?

 

[blasc]

you had a button on the best solution post saying " Unselect current solution" in gray ^^

if you don't have that option, i think you need to achieve a minimum number of posts or have to be registred for a certain period.

can't really remember ^^

 

[ThanosB]

you had a button on the best solution post saying " Unselect current solution" in gray ^^

if you don't have that option, i think you need to achieve a minimum number of posts or have to be registred for a certain period.

can't really remember ^^

Nope I don't have that option

 

[raisonjohn]

you had a button on the best solution post saying " Unselect current solution" in gray ^^

if you don't have that option, i think you need to achieve a minimum number of posts or have to be registred for a certain period.

can't really remember ^^

Thanks for the answer change @blasc!

Yup, it has something to do with receiving a certain number of correct answers in the forum (I think if I'm not mistaken it's 5 best answers?).