(Xeons) E5-2695.V3 or E7-4890.V2 for Editing/Rendering

[Rawriorr]

Imagine a world where these CPU's are the same price around $300. Let's call this world "EbayLand".
>Xeon E5-2695V3=14Core/28Thread
>Xeon E7-4890V2=15Core/30Thread

These are basically the 2 things within my budget for a full system spec that are available and theres no (useful) benchmarks on these to compare them in a meaningful way.

The main things are photography/editing software like CaptureOne, Photoshop, and Lightroom. In the future, it will be doing video editing and maybe some encoding or something.

Does anyone have any insight on which of these would be better suited for a Editing/Rendering build assuming the full build costs are the same?


TIA!

Open to alternatives, but with these at $250-$300 (more expensive motherboards aside) it's still worth it to cut on the speeds as production is becoming a bottleneck now.

EDIT : For clarification, this would be single CPU vs Single CPU, not multiCPU setups.

 

[kanewolf]

An E7-4xxx CPU is intended for a 4 socket motherboard. You would have to check compatibility on a 2 socket motherboard.

 

[Rawriorr]

An E7-4xxx CPU is intended for a 4 socket motherboard. You would have to check compatibility on a 2 socket motherboard.

The motherboard compatibility shouldn't be an issue, and I'm only using single CPU setup in these.

I am still not sure which CPU is objectively better.

 

[King Dranzer]

For single CPU setup the answer is E5-2695 V3 as it supports DDR4 and is nearly as good as E7-4890 v2 and you can get dual CPU motherboard for $300 and add another CPU in future if required.

 

[Rawriorr]

For single CPU setup the answer is E5-2695 V3 as it supports DDR4 and is nearly as good as E7-4890 v2 and you can get dual CPU motherboard for $300 and add another CPU in future if required.

Ok awesome! Thanks for the advice. If they're marginally different then I'll take the DDR4 + expandability option

 

[kanewolf]

Those $300 E5-2695 V3 CPUs in "Ebayland" are ES -- Engineering Sample CPUs. They are not technically legal to sell. The person that possesses them doesn't own them. They are still the property of Intel. Intel only loans ES CPUs, they do not sell them.

 

[marko55]

Kanewolf is correct, but more importantly with an engineering sample CPU is you're pretty much guaranteed NOT gonna get the actual factory spec of that CPU. It will likely have a lower turbo clock than the production spec, could have thermal issues, may not actually clock memory to spec (you may only get 1600 out of your ddr4) and more. They're pre production for a reason.