5800X and Photoshop CC

[brakeinup]

I'm about to upgrade the wife's PC used for her business. Its used primarily for Photoshop CC and ACR, some filters/plugins/actions and editing. Currently running a 4790K with 32GB memory and a Quadro 2000 plus NVME drives (modded BIOS for the NVME drives). The Intel kit is getting on a bit now so its upgrade time.

I have a 5800X in the basket (plus new MB and memory) but wondering whether this is overkill for pure editing and running some filters/plugins? Plus reading up on things they look to run a little warm and my cooling options are limited as I want to keep the old case and probably use a 120mm AIO.

Would I be better with a 5600X or squeeze in the 5800X for 'future proofing'?

For reference I ran my 3600XT system against her 4790K system on the same custom action and image - mine completed the task in half the time.

 

[brakeinup]

Pugetsystems has some comparisons of newer CPUs:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...000-Series-2099/#PhotoshopPerformanceAnalysis

So a Ryzen 7 5800 is around 20% faster than a Ryzen 5 5600X/Core i5 11600K. However a Core i5 11400F is around £150, and if you relax the TDP limits a bit on a B560/H570 motherboard shouldn't be much more than 10% slower IMHO than the Core i5 11600k. It will be easily faster than your Ryzen 5 3600 too.

Interesting approach. I'm trying to keep the system in an unmodified state for maximum stability as its a productivity system.

 

[brakeinup]

Hi I got 5800x for lightroom/photoshop use. Much more snappier now and with 32gb upgrade handles large files easier.

Fyi I have a pauper wraith prism and with a few simple tweaks guided by helpful members here I get max 80 under heavy loads/stress testing. It idles at 35-40, so your AIO will be more than adequate. It will be a better choice for future proofing.

What were you running before? Its good to know the 5800X works OK with the Wraith as that does open the door for a 120mm AIO. Its not heavy use at the moment and will only occasionally run at maximum when a heavy action is run.

 

[brakeinup]

Thanks both. I just ordered the 5800X

 

[brakeinup]

Its not really modified per-se. The Intel and AMD CPUs already boost past TDP briefly as part of their design. a lot of AMD and Intel motherboards already automatically up the TDP metrics out of the box. Hence it's not really unsafe as the CPU will be simply just working automatically. Its not really overclocking - AMD actually has done this for years. They had something called cTDP.

Apologies, I assumed you were discussing some form of system level tweaking. Cheers for the heads up on cTDP