Socket 1150, decent upgrade from i5 4690?

[peige]

I've got an Asus Z97-k 1150 socket mother board. Brought with at the time a "Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K"

Of the newer available 1150 cpu's is there anything worth replacing the chip with. Primary use atm is video editing, some games but not really much.

 

[Brazo]

A 4790k would make use of hyper threading which might help in video editing.

 

[abui1806]

Definitely the 4790k

 

[peige]

Excellent. Thanks for the pointers

 

[joeyjojo]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1261?vs=1263

At stock speeds a 4790K is up to 40% faster in video encoding.

Also make sure your I/O is fast enough. Keep your files on SSDs (at least) whatever the CPU.

(My hunch is the gap between i5 and i7 narrows with very fast I/O but never been able to test.)

 

[peige]

Erm, which 4790?

 

[peige]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1261?vs=1263

At stock speeds a 4790K is up to 40% faster in video encoding.

Also make sure your I/O is fast enough. Keep your files on SSDs (at least) whatever the CPU.

(My hunch is the gap between i5 and i7 narrows with very fast I/O but never been able to test.)

I *think* I/O is coping at the moment and the CPU is the bottle neck right now, its certainly running at 100% for the duration of the creation of the final video, I have it running from an SSD, 32gb of ram and a RX460 4gb on graphics so bar the motherboard its probably the weakest link.

 

[pastymuncher]

Is your 4690k overclocked? If it isn't try that first. Most should hit at least 4.4Ghz easily enough.

 

[joeyjojo]

I *think* I/O is coping at the moment and the CPU is the bottle neck right now, its certainly running at 100% for the duration of the creation of the final video, I have it running from an SSD, 32gb of ram and a RX460 4gb on graphics so bar the motherboard its probably the weakest link.

The trouble is it'll say 100% usage even if the CPU is spending substantial amounts of time waiting for disk activity to happen. This is often the reason hyperthreading improves performance - with more threads there's a chance of some threads doing useful work while others are stalled waiting for the disk. Anyone can overload a CPU to achieve this even without hyperthreading but then the cost of switching is too large to see any gains. Hyperthreading makes the thread switching cheap so it becomes worth it.

Anyway if you've got everything on SSDs though that's probably good enough. If you're curious and you've got enough memory you could do a benchmark with a RAM drive.