Should I upgrade my TR3960X to a TR3970X for an extra 8 cores/16 threads

[Pooh]

I would be interested to hear from any other felloe TR users if they have gone form a 3960 to a 3970 and if they found any major performance differences.

Most of the heavy lifting i do is in Premier Pro / Handbrake from a hobby perspective. Mainly work in 4K

I know the TR39XX series is getting a bit long in the tooth but it would be a major cost to upgrade to the later TR series and I don't think I could justify the cost.

 

[Pooh]

From the few benchmarks and reviews I've seen on the net, even though it has 33% more cores/threads, it doesn't seem to work out that way in reality. Is the all-core boost clock lower?

The average increase is around 10-15%, with some apps being very small (like 3-5%) and more rarely a little larger (in the region of 20%).

In the review on THG, the increase in Premier Pro overall was just 5%, though export was over 8%.

For handbrake, PCMag have a review and it was about 6% faster for their test.

Puget have some numbers here:

Adobe Premiere Pro - AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000 Series CPU Performance

AMD's new Threadripper Pro CPUs are here, combining many of the features from their Threadripper and EPYC CPU lines including increased memory and PCI-E capability. But are these extra features useful for Premiere Pro, or should you stick with the normal Threadripper processors?

www.pugetsystems.com

Thanks Tetras - Excellent link and benchmarking data

Think I'll stick with the 3960X for the time being

 

[Pooh]

Have you tried using GPU codecs with handbrake. I’ve mucked about with the AMD ones and had some good results. Conversion time was much quicker.

I've messed about with the GPU codecs but have never really been happy with the quality of output compared to the CPU codecs.

 

[Pooh]

Does anyone know why the difference exists between GPU & CPU encoding. Why is the CUDA encoding quality sub par compared to CPU encoding.

 

[Pooh]

Thanks for the info tommoT