Question Which of these CPUs for gaming and DaVinci Resolve 19?

[GeTShrEx]

Hi!

I'm currently building pc for gaming (but I don't play all the new AAA releases) and DaVinci Resolve 19 free version, sometimes Blender and Capcut too (with RTX 4070 Super). I did a research and in my budget and resonable cpu temps, I'm thinking between i5-14600k, 7 9700x and 9 7900.

The 7 9700x handles games well, but has 8 cores and loses in programs to the cheaper i5-14600k. The 9 7900 has 12 cores but has a gaming performance of the 5 7600 which is almost twice as cheap in my country. The i5-14600k consumes a lot of power, is on an older architecture and may have problems with Intel's 13/14th generation.

What would you choose in my case? Thanks!

 

[turtletarget111]

The 14600K has more cores for better multithreaded workloads, but the Ryzen 7 9700X has much faster cores for better gaming performance. In my opinion, if you aren't looking to upgrade your GPU anytime soon, I would opt for the 9700X. Only in October did Intel announce they supposedly fixed their 14th gen chips, and it is still unknown if Intel has found a permanent, long term solution to their CPU's killing themselves, not to mention the higher power draw. Even an eight core CPU should be more than enough for basic video editing, especially considering you should be using your video card's NVENC encoder to render projects.

If you do far more Blender work and video editing than gaming, it may be worth considering stepping up to the twelve core 7900X. It has slightly worse gaming performance, but the extra cores will be a net positive if you don't game as much as your other tasks.