No reason not to use amd with latest blue iris, right?

JayBart

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After a recent upgrade, I have a 9850x3d, 48g ddr5 ram, a decent 870xe mobo. My blue iris setup in my vacation home is running a 9900k/1080ti.
I'm thinking of upgrading it to the AMD hardware I have -- I know in the past intel cpus were superior for blue iris setups, that's no longer the case, right, with streams?
Any issues with using the 9850x3d?
 
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Correct, AMD has been fine to use with Blue Iris for at least 5 years now. Intel was the undisputed best choice for Blue Iris from about 2010 to 2017 because AMD was simply not competing effectively. AMD released the Zen 1 architecture in 2017 which made them less of a terrible choice, but even then, Blue Iris could use Intel's Quick Sync Video for hardware accelerated decoding, which offered an efficiency gain that you could not match with an AMD CPU.

Blue Iris changed the game when it added support for sub streams in version 5.2.7 (May 1, 2020), almost exactly 5 years ago. Now if you care at all about efficiency, you configure Blue Iris to use sub streams on all your cameras. This makes the video decoding workload so small that hardware accelerated decoding doesn't matter anymore, at least not enough to make up for its occasional malfunctions. For some users, sometimes, it would cause video corruption or instability or both. Now it is advisable to use sub streams and leave hardware accelerated decoding turned off, and this is what really what takes away Intel's advantage in Blue Iris.

So honestly the 9900K is still a very powerful performer for Blue Iris and I would advise not upgrading if it isn't giving you any problems. You could take out the 1080ti card because it is probably just wasting power unless you need it for AI acceleration. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D is comically overkill. In fact if you find yourself with an overpowered CPU like that running Blue Iris, you should probably turn on efficiency/eco modes in the bios, such as a lower TDP limit, to reduce the power consumption.
 
yeah, I know , the 9900k I have is overkill, and I really love that platmform, but the 9850 is just sitting on a shelf.
I am using sub streams on my BI in my house (yet another overkill machine --10980xe w/ 2x titan xps .. all watercooled) and love it. Just wasn't sure if there was some other reason not to use amd.
 
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Well I assume you mean 9950x3d because 9850 is not a thing in current gen AMD. How did you upgrade from that to something else?? It is brand new and top of the line! Do I misunderstand? I just wouldn't recommend it as a new purchase for BI purposes, but if you have it just collecting dust then sure, why not move BI to it.
 
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Aha, well 9800x3d is still unnecessarily powerful for BI, but less so than a 9950x3d :) Sure, use it but enable the 65w eco mode in the BIOS otherwise it probably won't give you much if any energy savings over the Intel 9900k.
 
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