>>2944612I can only speak for my experience with premiere, after effects and blackmagic's resolve
where cpu doesn't make too much of a difference from what I feel. I ran that software on a lot of different workstations at uni and on my computers. of course having more cores does help, but the software seems to be efficient enough with only the 'physical' cores, hyperthreading doesn't seem to make much of a difference with my kind of work. maybe that's different for people who do complex compositing, but that's just my 2 cents on the i5 vs i7 thing.
gpu does makes a huge difference for adobe products and resolve, that blackmagic shit won't real time preview anything without at least a 390x, which I found to be a really suitable gpu. good opencl performance and the amount of vram is what counts there.
the most important thing is storage, spinning drives will bottleneck the fuck out of your editing, especially with multicam work. striped disks or even raid10 is the way to go, or just go all ssd for the projects you're currently working on if you have the cash. especially samsung 950pro/sm961 m2 ssds are a dream, but don't forget factoring in enough backup storage.
ram is also important, I think 16GB is the minimum so you don't need to heavily rely on caching too much stuff on the disks which in turn slows down scrubbing in adobe programs.
resolve wants all your ram anyway
on that note: I did a 24 part multicam edit (just synced music video overdub takes) in premiere the other night just for shits and giggles on my laptop to preview it right after shooting and it actually worked and previewed in real time with only a bit of lag while scrubbing, specs are: i7 4710hq, 32gb ram, all ssd, quadro k4000m, files are fhd 25fps prores 422.
premiere seems to become more efficient everyday, shit's magical
