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How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

I'm only interested in more cores x more performance, because I'd be buying for CPU rendering power.
I've got a 6-core with a moderate overclock, so I wouldn't drop any significant amount of money for an 8 core.
However, a 10 - core with the incremental upgrades in IPC since my 3930K would present about double rendering performance. If they pitch it around £800, I will give it serious consideration, if not then, no.
I will def be keeping an eye on zen too, I don't know how many cores they intend to offer but I'll be looking at the price vs multi-core performance on that too.
 
Nasher said:
Could this be the first worthy upgrade from 2600k? :D

For the price, I suspect not...
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depends what you use it for. do rendering work look at a 2600k compared to a 5820k then you already see a massive leap in performance.

so people who do editing and stuff its quite a big deal.
 
I'm going to - it's time for a major overhaul, from a 2600k (overclocked at 4.4 ghz) and 580s in SLI, to the 10 core Broadwell-E, with 2 of the next gen videocards, under custom water, all with a high overclock.

The question is which would be the best waterblock for the CPU with 3x 480mm radiators ;)
 
Probably not now. Got a fairly good 5960x from the J batch chips which is sitting happy at 4.75 Ghz on all 8 cores. I would imagine that it would be comparable in performance to the replacement sitting at 4.4-4.5 Ghz which I imagine most would settle at so the IPC improvement would make the performance a wash.

Skylake-E and the replacement motherboard for me now :)
 
I'll probably be going for the 6/8 core 40-lane version, depending on overclocking ability. The extra cores will be really handy, but if it doesn't clock well then I'll stick it out on Ivy until Skylake-e.
 
Why do the "No point upgrading from Sandybridge" brigade always have to pollute these threads?

The clue is in the title. Broadwell-E.

Ballers only. No poors allowed.

I for one will probably not be getting Broadwell-E. Although I've not upgraded to Windows 10 yet, so if it does come out before the W10 promo upgrade ends then I suppose I could consider that it would be saving me £190 from buying Windows down the line anyway...?
 
Cromulent said:
This is just wrong. When encoding 3 or more videos in a batch process having a 10 core could easily knock 30+ minutes off the encoding time compared to my current 6 core. Possibly more given the increased IPC of newer CPUs as well.
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In the real world, do you perform a function that requires it to be done 30 minutes quicker?

If you're reporting news articles then I suppose there's a benefit to being "first to post" but even if you are PewDiePie and earn your millions from Youtube videos, I'm sure there's little to no downside in leaving the PC to encode over night.

At which point it's irrelevant whether you have 4 or 24 cores.
 
Radox-0 said:
Probably not now. Got a fairly good 5960x from the J batch chips which is sitting happy at 4.75 Ghz on all 8 cores. I would imagine that it would be comparable in performance to the replacement sitting at 4.4-4.5 Ghz which I imagine most would settle at so the IPC improvement would make the performance a wash.

Skylake-E and the replacement motherboard for me now :)
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Radox-0 said:
Probably not now. Got a fairly good 5960x from the J batch chips which is sitting happy at 4.75 Ghz on all 8 cores. I would imagine that it would be comparable in performance to the replacement sitting at 4.4-4.5 Ghz which I imagine most would settle at so the IPC improvement would make the performance a wash.

Skylake-E and the replacement motherboard for me now :)
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Broadwell-e is the same design as haswell-e just on a smaller process - A 'Tick' in the traditional if now broken 'Tick/Tock' Intel release schedule for CPU's

A broadwell-e processor at 4.5ghz will perform pretty much the same as a haswell-e cpu clocked similarly. Ipc will show little improvement due to the design being pretty much the same. Traditionally the 'Tocks' (new architectures) provide the greatest IPC improvements due to their updated designs. The ticks have previously allowed for cheaper manufacture, lower temps at the same clocks and sometimes higher max attainable overclocked frequencies (although this has not consistently been the case recently

Haswell to broadwell (non e) involved a more significant ipc improvement but the architecture changed (l4 cache from Iris pro etc - which is not applicable to -e CPU's)


For Haswell-E to Broawell-E the biggest improvements will be in power usage and heat output. It may overclock differently to haswell-e but we will have to see

In short unless your really need to drop you heat and or power usage Broadwell-e will only being a meaningfull upgrade if you go 'up' the comparable list i.e 6 core to 8 or 8 to 10 etc

5820k to 6800k for example is likely to be a very underwhelming 'upgrade'
 
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badbiddy said:
In the real world, do you perform a function that requires it to be done 30 minutes quicker?

If you're reporting news articles then I suppose there's a benefit to being "first to post" but even if you are PewDiePie and earn your millions from Youtube videos, I'm sure there's little to no downside in leaving the PC to encode over night.

At which point it's irrelevant whether you have 4 or 24 cores.
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the point is if you need to do something urgent. it does matter.
 
deadline a video to be up before release or to be up before others.

its often the case that you dont get much time before release on projects.

like right now im doing a nearly hr film saving it. at high res detail thats quite along time even on a fast 4 core machine. once you look at 6/8 even 10 core it makes a big difference.

means you can do more in same time not have to rush as much.

its okay saying leave over night what if it has to be done there and then which is often the case ? then you need the quickest option. so these new cpus are very welcome.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
deadline a video to be up before release or to be up before others.

its often the case that you dont get much time before release on projects.

like right now im doing a nearly hr film saving it. at high res detail thats quite along time even on a fast 4 core machine. once you look at 6/8 even 10 core it makes a big difference.

means you can do more in same time not have to rush as much.

its okay saying leave over night what if it has to be done there and then which is often the case ? then you need the quickest option. so these new cpus are very welcome.
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Right, so I did actually caveat for such a scenario. But are people that have a reliance on quick encoding really using a single mainstream desktop?

Surely you'd already have a couple of high core count Xeons for encoding rather than waiting for the Intel enthusiast range to come out.
 
You'd probably have a commercial black-box solution for encoding to desired format and multicasting to video host + storage on the fly.
 
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