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Originally Posted by ~ VEGETA ~
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Not worth the money. I recently moved from an E5-2670 to a Ryzen 2700 and I literally almost doubled my frame rate while cutting my power usage by a good third (150 watts while encoding vs 230 watts). If I overclock the 2700 to 2700x speeds, I do double my performance from my old Xeon at the same power usage. The sheer lack of AVX 2.0 makes them horrible for x265. There is a thread by Sagitarre? that properly benches processors for x265. If you check the thread you'll see that all AVX processors are beaten by similarly spec'd AVX 2.0 processors. Even my old 8 core was beaten easily by a quad core with AVX 2.0.
I'd strongly suggest you wait till Zen2 comes out before you make your purchase. You will either be able to get a new system that will destroy the dual Xeon and sip power, or someone's old stuff because they wanted to upgrade. Should be anywhere from 1-2 months at this point.