
Those applications didn’t make the cut, but Adobe’s Premiere Pro, MAGIX’s Vegas, Agisoft’s PhotoScan, Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve, and an application most reading this haven’t heard of, LameXP (music converter), help fill out this page. That said, I plan to test both applications more down-the-road, to see if I can’t eke more reliable benchmarks out of them. It could cap CPUs at 100% usage just as well, but the performance was the same on the 2990WX as it was the 1950X. The same could be said for Capture One, a reader-requested application that was going to make a debut here. Today, the application can use most of whatever CPU you can hand it, although I am not sure it uses it entirely effectively (based on the fact that I planned to include it here, but irregularities across multiple runs told me to drop it). It is stuck on the media pending screen for all my footage and I cant edit my project. My project is quite large but I have been patient. As an example, Adobe Lightroom, for most of its life, didn’t use more than a few cores and threads. I have recently updated to the 2023 version of Adobe Premiere Pro. Sometimes, applications will give the impression that they’re making proper use of the CPU, but I’ve found more than once that some applications actually just use the entire CPU very poorly.įortunately, the situation is getting a lot better over time.

Encoding is one of those scenarios that can be extremely hit-or-miss when it comes to taking good advantage of big CPUs.

We’re going to kick off this Threadripper performance look with a handful of encoding tests.
