Want a ryzen build but

I am of two minds

current pc build is as follows

4790k @ 4.6ghz
h80i
Asus z97 ws motherboard
32 GB 2133 Kingston Beast mhz ram (@2200)
2x 390x 8GB tri-x
Antec 1200 case
Corsair RM1000l modular PSU
1x 840 Evo 500 GB
3x wd greens 3TB

So I am not exactly slumming it..

My main reason for the upgrade is that I am a cinema4d user and the 1700 gives almost double the cinebench score, this would literally mean my render times in cinema4d would be halved with the standard cpu renderer.

HOWEVER...

The thing that is stopping me from pulling the trigger is that I know Maxon, the makers of cinema4d will be pushing amd's gpu accelerated renderer out with a new release soon (we are talking maybe a couple of months away)

And I am pretty sure my current dual gpu setup would crush the 1800x cpu render times.. as well as most other cpu's on the planet, under such a workload the only things to match it will be other graphics cards with a similar TFlop output.

It kind of makes me feel like AMD is trolling me as on the one hand it releases a cpu that crushes mine for rendering... and then makes that 'victory' obsolete by crushing that render score by pushing the workload gpu accelerared.

I am fairly certain I am better off sticking with what I have while waiting for the pro render update as it will make requiring that much cpu horsepower for 3d rendering redundant within cinema4d.. but I think I may have a ryzen fever coming on :D.

meh

the more I am thinking this through logically the more I am certain I should just wait for the Pro Render update..

I just want to know what you guys think.

im somewhat confused by this but if i was you ... I would upgrade if you are doing a lot of rendering and so forth. If you do more gaming than rendering you wont see a downgrade in games, but you wont see much of an FPS upgrade either so just depends on the workload.

But the 1700 will be one MASSIVE step up from a 4790k in terms of renders so.

1) You can have up to 3 gpu's on current x370 ryzen build; more cores = rendering pipes are feed better/faster.
2) CPU wise 4790 pretty much looses everywhere against ryzen.

All you'd need to get is a mobo, and cpu... rest can stay the same. (even cooling - corsair and most other aio coolers send out free mounting brackets for zen)

The difference in CPU will make little to no difference if your workloads are GPU intensive.

Unless you use badly optimized (read:adobe CC) software in your workflow extensively, I'd say save your money,

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This is what I was thinking

As soon as the pro render update launches all the render work will be gpu bound and a cinebench multithreaded score won't really matter that much anymore

yep. GPGPU will always trump cpu on graphical workloads if you can get it. If you still want to spend a little cash on an upgrade, you can still look up render time benchmarks for your main programs and pick up a higher end GPU or one with a larger framebuffer if the numbers make sense.