**The Battle Between Intel's 6700K and AMD's Ryzen 9 6800X: A Deep Dive**

To finally reveal to you if it's all been worth it or I should have gone with an X99 from the very beginning, I'm using the same 64 GB Ram kit from G-Scale at 3200 MHz, a GTX 1080 Founders Edition, and the same Kraken x61 cooler. A whole lot of patience for four days of testing was required to get to this point. Aside from testing stock to stock speeds between the two processors, my 6700K easily achieves 4.5 GHz at 1.24 volts, while I didn't get so lucky with the big guy that could only reach 4.2 GHz at 1.4 volts.

**System Performance: A Closer Look**

Starting with some generic understanding of the system performance, we have 3D Mark Fire Strike Ultra with a six-core machine performing 4% faster in Cinebench R15. The Ryzen 9 6800X delivers a 34% better score both at stock and overclock, and a 24% boost in Open GL test, most likely due to higher cash. Clearly, more threads account for faster computation, and that's exactly what we see in this collection with the six-core pulling ahead.

**Heavy Workloads: The Six-Core Shines**

In heavy multitasking and open CL tests with the six-core, it pulls ahead with a 28% boost for video compression and 15% increase for heavy multitasking. While only 6 and 4% for image editing and Open CL respectively. This is an interesting contrast to our previous results.

**Real-World Tests: The GPU-Accelerated Effects**

My favorite part of this testing was real render tests in Adobe CC with real projects that we've published. I used my most recent edit, the GTX 1080 vs RX 480, and I have color adjustment layers applied with Lumry effects that are GPU accelerated. This is very important because you can see both the CPU and the GPU being utilized while encoding.

**Encoding Times: The Six-Core Takes the Lead**

Here's where we get to see the difference between stock speeds of both processors. Encoding times, without Lumetri effects, show the Ryzen 9 6800X at 4% faster than the GTX 1080 Founders Edition. However, when I included GPU-accelerated effects in my testing, the difference is only a 4-second difference on my 60-second project.

**The Motherboard of this Entire Video**

Here we go! So, I exported a 1:3 and a 7-minute timeline with both CPU at stock speeds and the six-core machine at stock speeds. The Ryzen 9 6800X finished 7% faster than the GTX 1080 Founders Edition on the longest timeline.

**After Effects: Surprising Results**

I tested a camera track feature that analyzes the footage for tracking reference points onto which you can place tracking text and do all kinds of stuff, and then warp stabilizer that analyzes the frames and Smooths everything out. Regardless of clock speeds, my 6700K completed the analysis 15% faster than the six-core machine.

**Gaming: The Six-Core Shines**

Finally, getting into some gaming, there isn't that much of a big difference here. However, the six-core showed incremental performance improvement in CPU-heavy titles up to six extra frames per second on average on an overclocked Ryzen 9 6800X in Battlefield 4.

**The Verdict: A Surprising Winner**

Based on this testing, the Intel 6700K is an impressive little chip. I almost took it for granted there for a while thinking that man I should have gone with a six-core but uh, with my overclock of 4.4 GHz, I am out competing in encoding times compared to a Ryzen 9 6800X at stock speeds.

**Pricing and Future-Proofing: The Trade-Off**

However, if you can overclock the six-core chip to pass 4.2 GHz then you're lucky uh then it will give you a marginal you know 7% increase in 4K and encoding compared to my overclocked four-core machine. But when you take into account pricing for each system, an X99 platform would be significantly more expensive than a Z170 platform.

**Conclusion: Sticking with the 6700K**

All these benefits will come at certain cost obviously if you're future-proofing however I'm sticking with my Intel 6700K for now because Adobe loves clock speeds and that's a fact.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enspeak well it all kind of started a few months back um when I switched from my six core x79 platform towards a skyx CPU with a z170 platform as my workstation upgrade everybody flipped out everybody lost this x99 they said six core they said um instead of this little dinky 6700k four core CPU let's see if I made a big mistake the dark Bas 900 may be the most Innovative case of the year with a built-in cheat charger interior lighting tempered glass that can be installed on either side and a fully modular interior that can be inverted if you so desire be quiet stepping up their game check it out in the description below what's up guys I'm D hinu and I've been so tempted to find out how much time I've been losing working on a four core workstation PC versus a six core workstation PC for Adobe applications the answer will surprise you as it did surprise me and so the battle begins between the 6700k and a 6800k skylic versus Broadwell e 4 core 8 thread versus six score 12 thread also look how tiny the size difference is a bit crazy now it is understood that an x99 platform is more suited for encoding work for professional work for Creative work anything that requires computational power because we have higher Ram capacity on the motherboard we have more PCI lens on those processors and so my primary reason for switching to a z170 platform from the x79 platform was because I wanted to utilize the Intel 750 SSD uh which is the PCI ESD as my boot Drive which was not possible on the x79 so I've just kind of stuck with it and it has been working great for me and so now I get to finally reveal to you if it's all been worth it or I should have gone with an x99 from the very beginning in order to make the comparison even I am using the same 64 GB Ram kit from G scale at 3200 MHz a GTX 1080 Founders Edition and the same Kraken x61 cooler and a whole lot of patience for 4 days of testing so aside from testing stock to stock speeds between the two processors my 6700k easily achieves 4.5 GHz at 1.24 volts while I didn't get so lucky with the big guy that could only reach 4.2 GHz at 1.4 volts and starting with some generic understanding of the system performance we have 3D Mark fir strike Ultra with a six core machine performing 4% faster in cinebench R15 the 6800 delivers a 34% better score both at stock and overclock and a 24% boost in open GL test most likely due to higher cash so clearly more threads account for faster computation and that's exactly what we see in this colle ction with h.264 compression image editing heavy multitasking and open CL tests with the six core pulling ahead with a 28% boost for video compression and 15% increase for heavy multitasking while only 6 and 4% for image editing and open CL respectively and now my favorite part real render tests in Adobe CC with real projects that we've published Adobe Premiere first so here I used my most recent edit the gtx1 60 versus rx480 and I have color adjustment layers applied with lumry effects that are GPU accelerated this is very important because you can see both the CPU and the GPU being utilized while encoding but I wanted to make sure that GPU accelerated effects were not bottlenecking my render so here are encoding times with and without lumetri effects this is very important again which gives you only a 4 second difference on my 60-second uh project which is not significant and therefore I left all my GPU accelerated effects in my testing and so are you guys ready to see the mothership of this entire video here we go so I exported a 1 three and a 7 minute timeline with both CPU at stock and overclock and the six core machine at stock speeds finished 7% faster on the longest timeline than the sky CPU while only 8% faster when comparing overclock to over overclock between these two processors it's also very interesting to see how my 6700k at 4.5 GHz finished 3% faster compared to the six core at stock speeds then getting into After Effects I tested a camera track feature that analyzes the footage for tracking reference points onto which you can place tracking text and do all kinds of stuff and then warp stabilizer that analyzes the frames and Smooths everything out so here on my 11c file regardless of clock speeds the 6700k completed the analysis 15% faster than the six core machine very unusual result I'm happy to see that uh you know the four core machine with faster clock speeds performed better in After Effects for these particular tests versus a more core slower clock speeds and finally getting into some gaming there isn't that much of a big difference here the six core showed incremental performance Improvement in CPU heavy titles up to six extra frames per second on average on an overclocked 6800k in Battlefield 4 and so the takeaway based on this testing is that the 6700k is an impressive little chip I almost took it for granted there for a while thinking man I should have gone with a six core but uh with my overclock of 4.4 GHz I am um out competing in encoding times compared to a 6800k at stock speeds that go goes up to 3.8 GHz however if you can overclock the six score chip to pass 4.2 GHz then you're lucky uh then it will give you a marginal you know 7% increase in 4k and coding compared to my overclocked four core machine but when you take into account pricing for each system an x99 platform would be significantly more expensive than a z170 platform and you have to just take into account uh and see if you will benefit for higher maximum memory capacity so like an x99 can support up to 256 GB versus z170 only 64 GB you have to consider uh more PCI length on the CPU itself if you're doing multi-gpu and stuff like that but all these benefits will come at certain cost obviously if you're future proofing however I'm sticking with my sky 6700k for now because Adobe loves clock speeds and that's a fact any last words so yeah those are my findings I'm very surprised and my findings to be honest um thank you guys so much for watching this video that's it you're done can I go nowspeak well it all kind of started a few months back um when I switched from my six core x79 platform towards a skyx CPU with a z170 platform as my workstation upgrade everybody flipped out everybody lost this x99 they said six core they said um instead of this little dinky 6700k four core CPU let's see if I made a big mistake the dark Bas 900 may be the most Innovative case of the year with a built-in cheat charger interior lighting tempered glass that can be installed on either side and a fully modular interior that can be inverted if you so desire be quiet stepping up their game check it out in the description below what's up guys I'm D hinu and I've been so tempted to find out how much time I've been losing working on a four core workstation PC versus a six core workstation PC for Adobe applications the answer will surprise you as it did surprise me and so the battle begins between the 6700k and a 6800k skylic versus Broadwell e 4 core 8 thread versus six score 12 thread also look how tiny the size difference is a bit crazy now it is understood that an x99 platform is more suited for encoding work for professional work for Creative work anything that requires computational power because we have higher Ram capacity on the motherboard we have more PCI lens on those processors and so my primary reason for switching to a z170 platform from the x79 platform was because I wanted to utilize the Intel 750 SSD uh which is the PCI ESD as my boot Drive which was not possible on the x79 so I've just kind of stuck with it and it has been working great for me and so now I get to finally reveal to you if it's all been worth it or I should have gone with an x99 from the very beginning in order to make the comparison even I am using the same 64 GB Ram kit from G scale at 3200 MHz a GTX 1080 Founders Edition and the same Kraken x61 cooler and a whole lot of patience for 4 days of testing so aside from testing stock to stock speeds between the two processors my 6700k easily achieves 4.5 GHz at 1.24 volts while I didn't get so lucky with the big guy that could only reach 4.2 GHz at 1.4 volts and starting with some generic understanding of the system performance we have 3D Mark fir strike Ultra with a six core machine performing 4% faster in cinebench R15 the 6800 delivers a 34% better score both at stock and overclock and a 24% boost in open GL test most likely due to higher cash so clearly more threads account for faster computation and that's exactly what we see in this colle ction with h.264 compression image editing heavy multitasking and open CL tests with the six core pulling ahead with a 28% boost for video compression and 15% increase for heavy multitasking while only 6 and 4% for image editing and open CL respectively and now my favorite part real render tests in Adobe CC with real projects that we've published Adobe Premiere first so here I used my most recent edit the gtx1 60 versus rx480 and I have color adjustment layers applied with lumry effects that are GPU accelerated this is very important because you can see both the CPU and the GPU being utilized while encoding but I wanted to make sure that GPU accelerated effects were not bottlenecking my render so here are encoding times with and without lumetri effects this is very important again which gives you only a 4 second difference on my 60-second uh project which is not significant and therefore I left all my GPU accelerated effects in my testing and so are you guys ready to see the mothership of this entire video here we go so I exported a 1 three and a 7 minute timeline with both CPU at stock and overclock and the six core machine at stock speeds finished 7% faster on the longest timeline than the sky CPU while only 8% faster when comparing overclock to over overclock between these two processors it's also very interesting to see how my 6700k at 4.5 GHz finished 3% faster compared to the six core at stock speeds then getting into After Effects I tested a camera track feature that analyzes the footage for tracking reference points onto which you can place tracking text and do all kinds of stuff and then warp stabilizer that analyzes the frames and Smooths everything out so here on my 11c file regardless of clock speeds the 6700k completed the analysis 15% faster than the six core machine very unusual result I'm happy to see that uh you know the four core machine with faster clock speeds performed better in After Effects for these particular tests versus a more core slower clock speeds and finally getting into some gaming there isn't that much of a big difference here the six core showed incremental performance Improvement in CPU heavy titles up to six extra frames per second on average on an overclocked 6800k in Battlefield 4 and so the takeaway based on this testing is that the 6700k is an impressive little chip I almost took it for granted there for a while thinking man I should have gone with a six core but uh with my overclock of 4.4 GHz I am um out competing in encoding times compared to a 6800k at stock speeds that go goes up to 3.8 GHz however if you can overclock the six score chip to pass 4.2 GHz then you're lucky uh then it will give you a marginal you know 7% increase in 4k and coding compared to my overclocked four core machine but when you take into account pricing for each system an x99 platform would be significantly more expensive than a z170 platform and you have to just take into account uh and see if you will benefit for higher maximum memory capacity so like an x99 can support up to 256 GB versus z170 only 64 GB you have to consider uh more PCI length on the CPU itself if you're doing multi-gpu and stuff like that but all these benefits will come at certain cost obviously if you're future proofing however I'm sticking with my sky 6700k for now because Adobe loves clock speeds and that's a fact any last words so yeah those are my findings I'm very surprised and my findings to be honest um thank you guys so much for watching this video that's it you're done can I go now\n"