Thanks for your comment, think I’ll upgrade my cpu then, is Intel or amd better? I am not talking about value for money but which is more optimised for the software, from my experience Intel have always been better for productivity and amd for gaming, wondering if that has changed since the 14900K & 285K.
I am stuck between 14900K or the 285K, but hyperthreading is gone now so stuck which is the best of the best in 2025.
Topaz is indifferent to CPU manufacturer, unless it’s Apple. 
My work machine has Core i7-10700, my home machine has Ryzen 7 5700x. Both work fine. The main difference is a GPU, the RTX 4070 is noticeably faster then 3070.
That’s good news then, I might wait until march for the launch of AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and see if that beats Intels stuff.
It’s hard to find benchmarks with topaz products or video editing software when it comes to CPU, most of them are about GPU.
Thanks
The 4x upscailing results in the benchmark threads lean on the CPU a lot, so you can get a decent estimate by comparing those numbers between CPU manufacturers. More importantly, you can (sort of) “control” for the GPU differences by finding results using the same GPU’s but different CPU’s.
Intel 13 and 14 gen CPU’s seemed a bit faster than AMD’s offerings from what I remember.
That’s what I thought too but concerned about the crashing since i looked on Reddit and many people who use Topaz products have experienced blue screens with 13th/14th gen even with the latest bios updates and since the 285K doesn’t have hyperthreading anymore, it’s uncertain if it’s considered an upgrade.
I do quite well with two PCs but not fastest ones. My old graphics card is in my second slower computer and a 470Ti in the main, which is completely sufficient for me because I transfer everything that needs to be rendered for a long time to the other one working nonstop and my main gets free. You can place it for example in a garage or somewhere else you don’t have the noise. Pretty relaxed this way I can recommend it.
Have a look at the above links.
I’d say go for AM5, as AMD has promised to stay with AM5 until at least 2027. Currently, the Ryzen 9 9900X and 9950X won’t really bottleneck your gaming, unless you game at 1080p and +300fps, but offer a lot better productivity.
I currently have a 7800X3D, but I’ve quit gaming and am looking to upgrade to 9900x or 9950x. Haven’t decided yet.
If you are upgrading, make sure you get at least 6000Mhz cl30 memory, preferably Kingston or G.Skill as they both have hynix A-die (more tolerant to overclocking).
It’s not about how much you have, it’s more about how fast read/write and how low latency your ram has.
My 13900k has been fine, but it’s also been on the Bios fix since it (they) came out, and I had a voltage limit of 1.35v before that.
AMD has the better CPU’s overall, (I’m running a 9800X3D in my sim rig), but Intel has an advantage with this particular software. I suspect it has more to do with Intel’s ability to run faster RAM and TVAI loves fast RAM. AMD can technically run RAM at fast speeds, but it has to “decouple” the RAM speed from the IMC speed and takes a big penalty when you run over 6000-6400MT.
Still, peace of mind has its own value and AMD hasn’t had the reliability issues Intel has.
Bios “Fix”, Voltage reduce in case of prevent from CPU-Degradation. In the company I have several HP Z 13900k /14900k Workstations which have a CPU utilization of 100% in idle mode, because the CPU is damaged 
As Mellow said. RAM is likely to be the bottleneck for any high-end machine.
Note, the SPEED of the RAM is what matters, not the amount.
I got a linear speedup when I upgraded to faster RAM. From 4200 to 6000 it got me a ~40% speed improvement on some models. The app is still bottle-necked on RAM throughput though, so I’m eagerly following all memory hardware advancements 
Note that TVAI uses very little amount of RAM. Most models use no more than ~2GB of VRAM, some less than that, and amount of system ram for a 1080p → 8k upscale requires about 20GB system RAM. So 32GB system DRAM should suffice if you’re only doing single-clip encodes. If you have a fast graphics card such as the 4090, then a 64GB DRAM machine would be enough to eke out every ounce of aggregate FPS throughput for a two-clip parallel encode.
As has been covered here on the forum previously, the BSOD isn’t Topaz’s fault. It’s that the systems people use to run TVAI are unstable. TVAI is a unique stress test that stresses the memory controllers along with CPU and GPU like no other benchmark. You may run prime95 along with Futuremark’s furmark for instance and not have a crash. But that’s just because neither of those is stressing the memory controller at the same time.
Everyone who had a crash and when through a stability tuning exercise seem to have had those issues resolved according to past posts in the forum.
Indeed, but at the cost of insane power consumption.
That’s subjective.
Nonsense.
Reducing voltage WILL NEVER fix oxidation. RMA/replacement is the ONLY solution.
Nope. Only in gaming (and that’s questionable per title) and on paper and from shills. AMD has huge issues as well. I mean… just go to any AMD’s social handlers or AMD’s forums.
I overlooked the post, ok that’s new for me, the question is what this function does exactly, I don’t trust TVAI with such things^^
I downloaded Avidemux V2.8.1 for Windows from here I don’t know why the program is in German, because my Windows language is englisch and I can’t change the program language, maybe it takes region code when installing.
import a video first then you must choose a codec (ffv1 for lossless) then register “video” and “filter” the Resample function is under “Transformation” this function must be there if not its strange.
Or I could just continue to use the rigs I already own from both Intel and AMD.
ExtremeTech has an article with the owner of the card who admitted he screwed up by not using the cable that came with his 5090 FE. He used a cheap aftermarket cable that looked cool, but didn’t meet the electrical specs of the factory cable. Der8auer has sensationalized the story, just to generate views on his channel. It’s clickbait.
who to trust these days?
