Core i5 2500K vs Core i9 10 core

[EnochLight]

We have clients running i9 CPUs.
They tend to be more "hardcore" (most professional) composers.
Typically running large orchestral templates... pulling heavy disk-streaming polyphony from multiple SSDs.
Unless you fit this type of scenario, the i9 is overkill.

Curious, as disk streaming from SSD's really doesn't tax a CPU much, not like running some thread-hungry VST, anyway. I'm surprised your clients didn't op for the i7-6850k or similar instead.

[Jim Roseberry]

We have clients running i9 CPUs.
They tend to be more "hardcore" (most professional) composers.
Typically running large orchestral templates... pulling heavy disk-streaming polyphony from multiple SSDs.
Unless you fit this type of scenario, the i9 is overkill.

Curious, as disk streaming from SSD's really doesn't tax a CPU much, not like running some thread-hungry VST, anyway. I'm surprised your clients didn't op for the i7-6850k or similar instead.

Many do opt for the 6850k.
For those not pushing templates quite as far, the 6850k is a great choice.

Those who run *huge* orchestral templates typically want/need all the machine they can get.
Note: These aren't typical users. These are folks pushing the limits of hardware.
ie: Have you checked out the Hans Zimmer piano library?
Running it at small ASIO buffer sizes is a substantial load... on even the fastest of machines.
As nice as the 6850k is (and that's what I run myself), the 7900x yields more processing power.
20 processing threads at 4.5GHz vs. 12 processing threads at 4GHz.
For most users, the i9 is absolutely overkill.

[Scotty]

Try running a few instances of Soothe on a track in high resolution mode and it will eat cpu cycles for breakfast and it is worth every sacrifice. Bring on the I9 and I am not a media composer. -


Presently exhausting my 4.2ghz - 4.5 ghz overclocked 3930K (quad channel) water cooled machine with UAD-2 cards and having to up the buffers on my dual raydats to 4096 to complete some of mixes. I would welcome the headroom.

We have clients running i9 CPUs.
They tend to be more "hardcore" (most professional) composers.
Typically running large orchestral templates... pulling heavy disk-streaming polyphony from multiple SSDs.
Unless you fit this type of scenario, the i9 is overkill.

Curious, as disk streaming from SSD's really doesn't tax a CPU much, not like running some thread-hungry VST, anyway. I'm surprised your clients didn't op for the i7-6850k or similar instead.

Many do opt for the 6850k.
For those not pushing templates quite as far, the 6850k is a great choice.

Those that want to run *huge* orchestral templates typically need all the machine we can build.
Note: These aren't typical users. These are folks pushing the limits of hardware.
ie: Have you checked out the Hans Zimmer piano library?
Running it at small ASIO buffer sizes is a substantial load... on even the fastest of machines.