More cores or more GHz?

[e-charge 6]

Evenin' all

I run my Emby server on a Dell Optiplex 5080 Micro with Windows 10 installed on an NVME. It's powered by an Intel i5-10500T with 16GB of RAM installed, and all media is stored on a USB3-connected HDD. I can have up to 3 or 4 users streaming at any given time  and don't have any issues.

I have a spare i7-10700T kicking around which I could install in this machine, taking the number of physical cores up from 6 to 8, along with the number of logical cores from 12 to 16. The base clock would drop from 2.3GHz to 2.0GHz, but the turbo clock would jump from 3.8GHz to 4.5GHz.
My question is: will I see any benefit in performing this upgrade? I know when a transcode job kicks off as the CPU cooler ramps up briefly, which isn't a big deal, but would the upgrade speed up this job? I'm using hardware accelleration and have Quicksync enabled, but I just wanted to know if the upgrade would make any difference to the transcode jobs, or anything else for that matter.

Thanks in advance.

L

[Luke 42081]

Hi, similar discussion here: 

 

[rbjtech 5284]

10 hours ago, e-charge said:

Evenin' all

I run my Emby server on a Dell Optiplex 5080 Micro with Windows 10 installed on an NVME. It's powered by an Intel i5-10500T with 16GB of RAM installed, and all media is stored on a USB3-connected HDD. I can have up to 3 or 4 users streaming at any given time  and don't have any issues.

I have a spare i7-10700T kicking around which I could install in this machine, taking the number of physical cores up from 6 to 8, along with the number of logical cores from 12 to 16. The base clock would drop from 2.3GHz to 2.0GHz, but the turbo clock would jump from 3.8GHz to 4.5GHz.
My question is: will I see any benefit in performing this upgrade? I know when a transcode job kicks off as the CPU cooler ramps up briefly, which isn't a big deal, but would the upgrade speed up this job? I'm using hardware accelleration and have Quicksync enabled, but I just wanted to know if the upgrade would make any difference to the transcode jobs, or anything else for that matter.

Thanks in advance.

L

A negligible improvement only - if it's a literal cpu replacement (pull out the old, drop in the new) then worth doing - but if it's a replacement of the entire system / a rebuild - then not worth it imo.   

A significant upgrade is to get the UHD 7xx GPU (in the i3/i5/i7 series 11 and above) - that integrated GPU will double/triple the number of transcodes vs the UHD 6xx. 

[caffeineshock 18]

On 1/2/2024 at 12:18 AM, e-charge said:

Evenin' all

I run my Emby server on a Dell Optiplex 5080 Micro with Windows 10 installed on an NVME. It's powered by an Intel i5-10500T with 16GB of RAM installed, and all media is stored on a USB3-connected HDD. I can have up to 3 or 4 users streaming at any given time  and don't have any issues.

I have a spare i7-10700T kicking around which I could install in this machine, taking the number of physical cores up from 6 to 8, along with the number of logical cores from 12 to 16. The base clock would drop from 2.3GHz to 2.0GHz, but the turbo clock would jump from 3.8GHz to 4.5GHz.
My question is: will I see any benefit in performing this upgrade? I know when a transcode job kicks off as the CPU cooler ramps up briefly, which isn't a big deal, but would the upgrade speed up this job? I'm using hardware accelleration and have Quicksync enabled, but I just wanted to know if the upgrade would make any difference to the transcode jobs, or anything else for that matter.

Thanks in advance.

L

as soon as you use the gpu for transcode, your cpu almost does not matter. the only job of the cpu is to provide the data for the gpu which is not that hard of a job for a half-decent cpu. you could run it of a dualcore with 1ghz if you dont use software-transcode

both of your cpus use the same gpu, the intel 630. there wont be any difference at all

IF you use software-transcode,, more cores = more better

IF your cpu cooler ramps up despite the fact that you use hardware-transcode and a low-power-cpu with only 25W tdp, you should consider upgrading your cooler