intel 13 gen upgrasde with after effects in mind

[nalla]

hi all, ok i have a budget and im not sure which way to go, i do a lot of gaming but also use after effects, so with with after effects in mind, am i best getting a 13900k with 32 gig ddr5 ram, or get 13700k and 64 gig ddr5 ram, dont think either option will make much difference for gaming,

 

[Qitarah]

13900k and 32 gb of ram, can always add more ram later on if need, once better kits become available & are cheaper.

 

[Tetras]

i do a lot of gaming but also use after effects, so with with after effects in mind, am i best getting a 13900k with 32 gig ddr5 ram, or get 13700k and 64 gig ddr5 ram, dont think either option will make much difference for gaming,

In the benches that I've seen, there is very little difference in after effects, which I assume is because the benches are primarily single core/thread oriented, but I don't know if that applies to the program as a whole. Other productivity tasks which do use the cores (like rendering) there is a pretty large difference between the two, because the 13900K surprisingly has 8 more E-cores (16) than the 13700K (8).

If your work is mainly staying within 32GB RAM and you're spending a lot of time waiting for tasks to complete, then I'd take the 13900K, since as said above, you can always upgrade the RAM later if you need it. If you actually are single core/thread limited in all of your tasks (I find it unlikely, but eh), then you might as well take the 13700K, or even the 13600K, since even in productivity there's not as much difference between them anymore, now that the 13600K has 8 E-cores too.

Gaming: above 1080p there's pretty much nothing between the 13600K, 13700K and 13900K, you need a 4090 to start showing any difference between them.

 

[nalla]

cheers for that.

 

[mickyflinn]

What's your pc spec at the moment?

 

[nalla]

9900k @5ghz, 3080ti, 48 gig ddr4 3600 ( 2 x 16 + 2 x 8 ), 1 gig nvme ssd, 2 gig nvme ssd,750 samsung pro ssd,