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It's definitely not for gamers, even silly "I have to have the best thing" gamers. Games are considered "lightly threaded" in these sorts of conversations, so y
by SCdF 7y ago
It's definitely not for gamers, even silly "I have to have the best thing" gamers. Games are considered "lightly threaded" in these sorts of conversations, so you're looking for max boost clock / IPC.
However, Lots of the youtube influencer ruling class will buy it, in part because of what you said ("those who can afford it..").
The real legitimate consumer base for this are people whose work productivity is held back by compute loads that are embarrassingly parallel. If you spend a lot of your time waiting for a (well threaded) compiler to finish, or blender to render something out, or whatever.
- rasz 7y agoto be fair YT and twitch "influencer ruling class" uses all threads for video encoding (you need software encoders for best quality)
- SCdF 7y agoAt least for Premiere it's not as useful as you'd think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJssAQZlZc&t=38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJssAQZlZc&t=38s (at least for now, I don't work in that industry but it may just be a code quality issue)
- BubRoss 7y agoffmpeg is a much better way to look at video encoding. Codec libraries themselves have varying ability to use multiple cores effectively.
- dragontamer 7y agoTwitch / "Influencer" video gamers aren't using Premiere for videos. Twitch streamers need a "streaming" solution. They play live, and instantly react to the crowd. If someone pays for an emote or something, the Twitch-streamer is expected to look on camera and say thank you to the donor (and maybe repeat the message that the donor paid for). This means that a Twitch streamer's computer MUST encode the gameplay live. Traditionally, Twitch streamers would buy two computers, one to play video games, and a 2nd computer to process the video stream and upload it to Twitch. With the advent of 16+ core computers, Twitch streamers have begun to simply buy one computer, lock 8-cores to the video game, and then lock 8-cores to the Twitch encoder. Presumably, something like a Threadripper (24+ cores) could process the video stream for better quality and lower bandwidth. Maybe live VP9 encoding, for example (8-cores for the video game, 16-cores or more for the encoder)