Upgrading from Intel i9 7900X to Ryzen 3950X?

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I currently have an Intel i9 7900X overclocked to 4.4Ghz, and I'm seriously considering an upgrade to Ryzen 3950X. The only problem I have is that the Intel CPU is prosumer CPU with unique features such as quad channel RAM, AVX512 and other things.

Would I be better off waiting for Threadripper 3000? Or would Ryzen 3950X be OK?

I usually run virtual machines on my computer, along with doing video editing using Adobe Creative Cloud.

Any help is appreciated.

 

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Are you missing something with your 7900X system? Are you using more than 40-PCI-E lanes? Do you think you'll need more lanes, or faster PCI-E?

Why do you want to change? That would be the top level question.

Having more cores is always useful when you are running multiple virtual machines. The i9 7900X is a great CPU but it would be nice to have more cores and a bit more RAM. Plus added performance wouldn't hurt.

The thing is I run Windows 10 as my main operating system and then use VMWare Workstation 15 to run 2 or 3 instances of Linux which I use for programming. Having everything running nice and fast at the same time saves a lot of time in the long run.

 

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It's hard to answer your question, unless you answer the query with regards to how many PCI-E lanes you are using. There's little point in being on HEDT anymore, unless it is for the PCI-E lanes, and the higher memory bandwidth, or you want more than 16 cores.

"More cores is always useful" Is that to a point, or is more always better? I ask since if more is always better, then the sensible option would be wait and then 24/32/40/48 core Threadripper 3xxx options are. Of course that is likely to be 4 months away at least, so is it costing you time/money or is this just something you'd like

As for PCI-E lanes I don't really need that many. I'll have two graphics cards and an NVMe SSD. The rest will be SATA. In terms of cores though I could use as many as is available. I do video editing on the side and will likely increase the number of virtual machines that I run in line with performance of the new computer.