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i7 4770k - a little dissapointed

t103Ninja

t103Ninja

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so im coming up from an i3 3220 to an i7 4770k, my pc is mainly for gaming but i also capture gameplay with dxoty at 1080p and edit and render that footage to

my i3 was doing a great job but i figured an i7 would be a massive jump in performance so id be able to get more editing/rendering done, i have it overclocked to 4.5ghz ive stress tested it gamed and recorded on it and done just general stuff its running rock solid and pretty cool but when it comes down to something CPU intensive like rendering a video i really dont notice much of a difference my i3 would render a 30 minute video in about 45ish minutes my i7 is doing it in the same ammount of time give or take a minute or two

that time is also the same wether im running stock or with the 4.5 overclock and in dxtory i lose about the same ammount of the FPS as i did with the i3

i expected a big jump in performance but now im sitting here feeling kinda like i wasted my money
 
You sure you don't have your GPU processing the video? That would explain why upgrading your CPU hasn't made much difference. When I processed video in the past I used CUDA.

If not it depends on how well the applications you are using utilise the available CPU power and threads. If the program can only utilise a maximum of 4 threads (whereby the i3 has 4 threads and the i7 has 8) and the program is badly optimised, you might not see much of a jump.

But rest assured that there is a massive performance difference between the chips, see here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/677?vs=836

Bearing in mind that is with the 4770K at stock settings.
 
acme15 said:
You sure you don't have your GPU processing the video? That would explain why upgrading your CPU hasn't made much difference. When I processed video in the past I used CUDA.

If not it depends on how well the applications you are using utilise the available CPU power and threads. If the program can only utilise a maximum of 4 threads (whereby the i3 has 4 threads and the i7 has 8) and the program is badly optimised, you might not see much of a jump.

But rest assured that there is a massive performance difference between the chips, see here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/677?vs=836

Bearing in mind that is with the 4770K at stock settings.
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no i dont use the GPU because i feel it loses a touch of quality, as for the programme im using vegas pro 12 wich as far as i understand will use all 8 threads correct me if im wrong on that
 
Is your GPU usage peaking at 100% in all threads in the Task Manager?

It sounds like the bottleneck might be elsewhere.. superslow memory? :)
 
Check your temps and make sure it isn't throttling.

Also what hard drive do you have? it might be a bottleneck if they are large videos you are encoding.
 
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Make said:
Is your GPU usage peaking at 100% in all threads in the Task Manager?

It sounds like the bottleneck might be elsewhere.. superslow memory? :)
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dont you mean CPU usage? the answer to your question is no the most usage i have seen outside of stress testing was 90% during a render
i have 8gb of ram at 1600mhz... i will be upgradng that to 16gb at 2400mhz pretty soon
 
JasonM said:
Run some benchmark software, it's the only way you know how it's really running. Passmark is good for checking CPU speed.
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downloaded passmark the cpu scored 12,827 and according the comparrison thingy a stock 4770k scores 10,127
so thats good but its still isnt performing any better than my i3 in actual tasks
 
It's not using Quick Sync is it?

Cause then the boost would be from the HD4600 1GHz turbo in the 3220 to 1.25GHz trubo in the 4770K?
 
I'm afraid I really don't know much about Quick Sync, I've just heard of it and it might explain why you weren't seeing much difference. The i7 with 8 logical's should decimate the 3220 with just 2 :confused:
 
My 3770K doesn't hit 100% usage when I render using Sony so don't worry too much about that.

When you choose "render as" what option are you choosing? I generally use mainconcept mp4.

I was going to suggest making sure using gpu rendering wasn't on but you have that covered. I went from i5 to i7 and noticed only a marginal increase in performance but you're right, your new i7 should destroy the i3
 
Steveocee said:
My 3770K doesn't hit 100% usage when I render using Sony so don't worry too much about that.

When you choose "render as" what option are you choosing? I generally use mainconcept mp4.

I was going to suggest making sure using gpu rendering wasn't on but you have that covered. I went from i5 to i7 and noticed only a marginal increase in performance but you're right, your new i7 should destroy the i3
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i use mainconcept mp4 and WMV both of them are kind slow, i may aswell have just gone for an i5 and saved some money lol

the sony AVC mp4 does actualy scream through the render even at 1080p but to be fair so did the i3 no real change
 
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oceaness said:
I'm afraid I really don't know much about Quick Sync, I've just heard of it and it might explain why you weren't seeing much difference. The i7 with 8 logical's should decimate the 3220 with just 2 :confused:
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i thought quicksync was supposed to work with the cores/thread to speed up the render, but ill have a poke around in the bios see if i can see anything about turning it off
 
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t103Ninja said:
i thought quicksync was supposed to work with the cores/thread to speed up the render, but ill have a poke around in the bios see if i can see anything about turning it off
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It will only help if rendering using the quicksync (or so I thought) for mainconcept renders it won't make a difference.
 
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