I might go down the zen 3 route if performance v price works out, but would certainly want a board with 3 x M.2 slots and not have to bother with an adapter card.
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AMD Zen 3 (5000 Series), rumored 17% IPC gain.
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I might go down the zen 3 route if performance v price works out, but would certainly want a board with 3 x M.2 slots and not have to bother with an adapter card.
Soldato
That's 12x PCI-E lanes if you want to take advantage of them all at the same time, then you are looking at 4x from the dedicated M.2 lanes, 4x from the 20x the CPU offers, and the full 4x available to the chipset, then the remaining 16x for the graphics card. As long as you don't want to use anything other PCI-E devices then you'll be fine, or you'll suffer a bit of restriction in speed if they are sharing chipset lanes with other devices.
I see why you might have preferred Threadripper if you really need the lanes.
I won't be using any other PCI-E devices, are you saying using 3 x M.2 will have an impact on the GPU performance here? I could drop one M.2 if I really had to, but ideally need 3 for my drive configuration.
Soldato
Depends, 16x dedicated to the graphics, 4x dedicated to the first M.2 slot (these are both from the CPU) and then 4x from the chipset to the CPU, but the chipset will support up to 8x PCI-E 4.0 lanes, but obviously you can't put 8x 4.0 lanes of bandwidth up to the CPU across a 4x lane 4.0 link so you've got to not be using those drives at the same time if they need to go via the CPU for anything.
It's purely for Adobe, I don't really game any more. So Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Premiere Pro being the heavyweight... CPU and GPU heavy, but also need the M.2's. I think the M.2 slots are more needed for media source and scratch.... so if I needed to compromise the setup I could drop the software from M.2 if it would prevent a performance drop elsewhere? Would that be the best bet?
Soldato
I highly doubt you'll notice any drop, or in fact face any compromise.
Excellent, thanks. I've not kept up with all the tech for about 10 years... still playing catch up so the advice is very welcome!
Soldato
Exactly. Just like @Jim 76 i mainly use my rig for Premier Pro, Photoshop and Lightroom but also FS as well. I have a 500GB M.2 and a 1000GB Sata. I also have external storage that all completed work is stored on. In all honesty, speed of work and the ability to later watch that work has never been an issue.
Unless you are in a data center, endless M2 drives are a complete waste of time, money, effort or even worrying about.
Soldato
Yes, yes it is.
Fantastic, cant wait to see what it can do!
All along I've been thinking Zen 3 will be my (long over due) upgrade, but I suspect Zen 2 may well get a reasonable discount in the coming weeks/ months and whilst not as fast, may end up being better price / performance value, wait and see. It'll be nice to see what AMD has later today, I have no brand loyalty at all but I would quite like AMD to come out on top for a bit, in a underdog comes good kinda way.
Soldato
They'll have to wait for a while, the 5700XT is EOL now
Soldato
Let me know when its on shelves and I can actually buy something...
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They'll have to wait for a while, the 5700XT is EOL now
I just realised this...
They're going to have a 5700X cpu with possibly a 5700XT version and also have a GPU of the exact same name.
AMD really need to rename their GPU's I feel
Soldato
4070 / 4080 / 4090
Ryzen R7 5700X on X570 motherboard with RX 5700XT video card
Soldato
From the naming convention change it seems to me they will stick with x570 mobos.
Which is probably a good thing. We don't need a new series of boards.
Which is probably a good thing. We don't need a new series of boards.
Why not? From my pov I'd like new boards.
They'll have to wait for a while, the 5700XT is EOL now
AMD refuted that and said the 5700XT is continuing into at least Q1 2021... they clarified that the 5700 is now special order only.
So I think the people reporting that news got their wires crossed and assumed both were being discontinued when in fact it was only the 5700 for now.
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