Ryzen 2700x or i8700K for photo and video editing?

[Matan909]

Hello everyone,

I'm in the process of deciding the different parts I want for a PC I'm building for photo and video editing (NO GAMING), and would like to hear your advice on a suitable CPU.

I use Photoshop and Lightroom for photos, and DaVinci Resolve and After Effects for video. ~70% of the time is for photos (both light and heavy work), 30% is for video (usually light work).

My GPU will probably be Quadro p2000 or Geforce 1060, and The PC will have 32Gb of RAM.
If it is of any significance, I'm using multiple monitors (currently two, but will probably add another this year), the first is a 27'' 2560x1440 10-bit display, the second is a 24'' 1920x1080 display.

From the research I've been doing so far my options have been narrowed down to either Ryzen 2700x or i8700K. I live overseas and where I live both cost around the same, while the 2700x is a little cheaper and comes with a cooler.
I don't think I will be overclocking.

OS will be Windows 10 pro 64-bit.

Which of the two would you recommend for best software-hardware compatibility and overall performance?

Your advice would be much appreciated (and I'm open to other suggestions as well).

Mat

 

[the_red_spirit]

Can't say which is better, but if you want serious accuracy and reliability, then you want Quadro instead of 1060, ECC memory and RAID 1. And if you aren't overclocking, then maybe 8700 non k will be fine. If you are very paranoid about reliability, then maybe investing into beefy air cooler is a good choice as it's not liquid cooler, so no leaks and in case of fan failure, it could work as big passive cooler. I'm not sure about your specific software, but I always think that photo editing requires more single thread performance and video editing more multicore performance. Anyway, both processors are good, and you really can't go wrong.

 

[the_red_spirit]

Did quick research:
photoshop - single thread
lightroom single thread, ram heavy
resolve - heavy multithread
after effects - single thread

I wrote preferences based on quick research. Basically you should know what your software prefers to use. From what it looks like, most software prefers heavy single (maybe not single, but totally not a lot of threads) threaded workloads. Then 8700K may be better choice, but Ryzen offers more threads and is close in low threaded workloads, so it may be smarter buy. Anyway at this point maybe you could afford Threadripper 1900X? Then you could upgrade processor in the future if you will need to, but initially motherboard will be much more expensive than AM4 platform's.

 

[mdd1963]

Given no gaming objectives, I'd go 2700X every day of the week....

8 cores, 16 threads, cooler running.....