HP Z440 - Upgrade CPU

[apaliska]

So I currently have an Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 installed in my HP Z440 (before that, Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 was installed). My line of work require working with huge vector files (Adobe, Corel) so I'm wondering if there is a better solution regarding CPU?

If that's important, the other components installed are:

GPU: Nvidia Quadro P5000

128 GB RAM

SSD disks

[NonSequitur777]

@apaliska,

Welcome to our HP Community Forum!

Yes, based on the numbers, so to speak, there is a better solution for your HP Z440 Workstation: the Intel Core i7-6850K: UserBenchmark: Intel Core i7-6850K vs Xeon E5-2696 v4.

As seen here, for example, in all its superb performance: HP Z440 Workstation Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[NonSequitur777]

@apaliska,

Actually, I would like to withdraw my previous CPU recommendation: I viewed the question from a Gaming point of view (my bad), NOT a multi-core ("64-Core"), multi-thread performance perspective.

The advantages of a Xeon E5-2696 v4 over an i7-6850K:

• The Xeon E5-2696 v4 is capable of dual-processing. This feature allows two microprocessors to be used in multi-socket server systems to achieve faster performance and memory bandwidth.
• Many more CPU cores on the Xeon E5-2696 v4 help to process multiple applications or heavily multi-threaded tasks.

You already have one of the best Xeon processors installed for your platform and computing purposes.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777