HDMI or sdi input is now becoming a technology of the past.
If you are using ip technology such as ndi or srt, the few pcie lanes are not so important.
ryzen outperforms Intel in every way.


I am waiting for vmix 24 version.
I want to use 8 cameras and 8 replays at FHD 60fps.

However, the officially recommended Intel 18-core system is too expensive.
I want to use a Ryzen 3950x or 5950x system.
I/O will use only 1 pcie 4hdmi capture and all will use srt or ndi.


I don't think there will be any pcie lane problem.
What other hidden problems do I have with buying a Ryzen system?
Thanks for reading.

I'm using a Ryzen 3900x with vMix v24, 6 cameras, 6 replays, 1080p 30 fps. The CPU barely notices that anything is going on. :)

I think a 3950X would be fine. I'm positive a 5950X would do the job with plenty of power to spare.

I can vouch for this, we don't use NDI for anything that is mission critical appart from occasionally bringing in a PC Screen capture of power point. Too many times there is some randomness or jankyness, we do corporate stuff as well as sport and smooth motion is super important.

I'm with you that SDI won't go away and latency is superiour to NDI, but we use NDI a lot (besides SDI) and do not have issues. All NDI issues I have seen happened when people use cheap, crappy USB-Ethernet Interfaces to connect to a separate NDI LAN, really outdated network drivers on old machines, or (most of the time) using the wrong network switches.

Too many people seem to just not want to accept that some brands and models simply have bugs and do not work well with NDI. So if you want to use NDI with some prosumer Gigabit switch, just send at least 6-8 NDI streams with lots of movement around your Network with some test setup and multiple PCs and let it run for at least 20 hours (!), then check the statistics. All the cheaper Netgear are known not to work, older hight-class DELL switches have problems, too.