MishaEngel wrote:David Williams wrote:If you're on a tighter budget, sure, but he's already specc'ed TR2 and 2080TI. And CPU cache is great for smaller, repetitive operations, but does nothing for sustained through put, which is what video is all about. I'd still recommend waiting for TR3.
That said, your option would work fine too for general edit/grade for UHD x264, if somewhat slower for heavy usage at higher resolutions and post processing.
I'm interested in the ASrock TRX40 Creator for a future build if TR3 looks to be worth updating too from my Gigabyte G7 + 1950X. ASrock are a solid brand.
44 GB/s effective
(Max Bandwidth 47.68 GiB/s at 3200) is a lot of memory bandwidth and enough to feed 16c/32tr running at 4.5 GHz all-core(according to AMD). 8k BRAW 3:1 at 60 fps and 8k .R3D 5:1 at 25 fps will run in realtime on this CPU and GPU. It will eat UHD x264 for breakfast no matter the chroma sub. sampling.
To my knowledge no current TRX40 board supports TB3 and for the money saved you can buy a nice BMPCC4k or something else.
You can quote theoretical numbers till the cows come home. I have multiple systems, I test them. It makes a difference. It's a major reason for hearing people complain systems not peaking CPU and GPU while still being framerate limited, system buses are saturated. Data moves, roughly, drive>cpu>gpu>cpu>drive, both ways. Now add multiple streams for cross fades, composites, windows, etc. Current systems are often bus limited.
Thunderbolt means nothing to me? Never has, it's just an encapsulation protocol that other bundles current protocols into one for convenience, with extra overhead in hardware and cost. Handy for laptops perhaps, with limited area for ports. It's now it's self encapsulated into USB
Anyway, enjoy your new system when you build it.