Best CPU for video rendering?

1. 2020-05-11 at 3:37 PM UTC

   #1
   Hikikomori-Fujoshi African Astronaut
   Currently rendering a 4 hour long video to H.265 in avidemux (it's gameplay footage) and it's extremely slow, the eta is 70 hours so it'll probably take two and a half days to finish.
   I'm using a laptop i3 CPU.
   What's a great CPU for video rendering under $500?
   
   I will be transcoding gameplay footage to h.265 as they come and I'm looking at thousands of hours over the course of months or a year.
2. 2020-05-11 at 4:15 PM UTC

   #2
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   The CPU is the central processing unit. You can have a great CPU, but if your GPU (graphics processing unit) is shit, it won't help you.
3. 2020-05-11 at 8:50 PM UTC

   #3
   Hikikomori-Fujoshi African Astronaut
   Pretty sure gpu doesn't really make a difference when rendering files in avidemux.
   I know some video editors can make use of GPU power, but so doubt avidemux does that.
4. 2020-05-12 at 12:17 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
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