[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: Ryzen 9 CPU

[Niklas Haas]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:20:55 +0200 Niklas Haas <ffmpeg at haasn.xyz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My current workstation (first generation Zen) is getting rather old (8 years).
> On top of being slow and power hungry, it is also not very representative
> anymore of modern hardware.
> 
> Additionally, I would like to try and incorporate AVX-512 instructions for
> my swscale rewrite, in particular for the pixel conversions.
> 
> The recently released Ryzen 9 series of workstation CPUs are looking very
> attractive right now; In particular the 9950X3D, which appears at the top of
> the timed compilation benchmarks.
> 
> As such, I am humbly requesting the purchase of this CPU, alongside a suitable
> mainboard and RAM:
> 
> https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/fFshGJ
> The total price at time of posting would be 1364 EUR.

Note: While double-checking the compatibility, I noticed that the proposed
Motherboard has its PCI-Express lanes configured rather suboptimally for my
workstation.

I found instead the MSI MAG X870E TOMAHAWK WIFI, which costs roughly the same
as the Gigabyte board but supports running a PCIe x16 slot and two M.2 SSD slots
at full bandwidth, or alternatively splitting the bandwidth of one SSD with
the USB 40 Gbps port on the back.

(This is in contrast with the Gigabyte motherboard, which can only split the
bandwidth of SSDs with the PCIe slot, and instead always dedicates x4 lanes to
the less-useful rear USB-C port)

> 
> Thanks,
> Niklas