Worth upgrading from i7-9700?

[yannis76]

Hi,

my main use is photo processing (LR), MS Office and occasionally some strategy gaming (XCOM, Total War series and FM series). Current setup: i7-9700, 32GB RAM and 2070 Super. Resolution: 3440*1440, haven't found yet a game not performing well, so main interest if photo processing.

thanks
Yannis

 

[yannis76]

Hi all!

I am coming back to my question raised last February, checking whether a 13700 upgrade would noticeable speed gains in LR. I see latest versions of LR getting a bit slower and was wondering whether a CPU or GPU upgrade would make sense...

thanks

 

[yannis76]

I looked into this as I'm also currently using an i7-9700 and the price of an i9-9900(X) was so high for the small perormance gain that it just wasn't worth it. I'm currently building a complete new system based on a Ryzen 7 7700 but the GPU has yet to be selected.

ok will be curious to read your impressions by this upgrade. Not so much in games but productivity

 

[yannis76]

Any update news on the 9700 upgrade to a newer cpu?

 

[yannis76]

The 14700 is the only 14th gen CPU that has a meaningful difference in performance, due to the extra E-Cores over the 13700, so not much has changed. Since the single core performance is slightly higher because of their higher clocks, office and photo apps tend to show some gains, but we're talking very marginal improvements (a few % at most).

So that means that LR doesn’t benefit from multiple cores?

 

[yannis76]

The 14700 is the only 14th gen CPU that has a meaningful difference in performance, due to the extra E-Cores over the 13700, so not much has changed. Since the single core performance is slightly higher because of their higher clocks, office and photo apps tend to show some gains, but we're talking very marginal improvements (a few % at most).

What about upgrading to 13700k? When I compare it to my humble 9700, I see several technical differences, such as more cores and higher frequency.

 

[yannis76]

didn't got the actual point

If its worth upgrading from i7-9700 to i7-13700k for image editing and some strategy games (mainly Total War series)