Cpu requirements for SVP

What is your current CPU, what kind of a budget are you looking at with for this new PC, and how impatient are you? (i.e. would waiting up to 4 months at the very worst be a no-go?)

I think that CPU will be too weak for 1080p, but I'm not 100% sure so I'm going to do some tests with my own Pentium G3258 @ 4.6GHz.

Waiting for Intel Cannon lake and  Nvidia 1100?  That's an...interesting...choice.

Most of the PC gamers I am aware of that are waiting for future parts are waiting for AMD's Zen CPUs (Q1 2017) and AMD's Vega GPUs (Q2 2017) because Intel is practically guaranteed to have yet another only ~5% IPC increase and Nvidia's next-gen Volta GPUs aren't launching until 2018 (they're releasing "Pascal refresh" for 2017).

Anyway, the reason I asked what your current CPU (or perhaps your previous CPU?) was because different people have different interpolation tolerances, so some people use much less intensive settings than others - in other words, what one person may deem to be "too weak", another person may deem to be "more than enough".  As an example, even my Pentium G3258 (a CPU with IPC a bit worse than a G4400) @ 4.6GHz isn't enough for 1080p with SVP settings that I deem "adequate", but if I lower some settings, then it's more than fast enough even at its stock 3.2GHz.

The thing is, there becomes a point where more smoothness results in more noticeable artifacts, so even when performance is not an issue, it all comes down to balancing your tolerance for artifacts vs your tolerance for what movie buffs call the "soap opera effect".

tl;dr: Whether or not a Pentium G4400 is fast enough for 1080p all depends on what kind of settings you are used to in SVP - or have you never actually tried SVP before?

FYI your G4400 has a hardware decoding block. In fact, it has a fairly good one.

Yeah, it should be fine.

SVP actually has multiple "default settings" and it simply chooses the most adequate default depending on your CPU performance - this is again why I had asked about your current/previous CPU.

Nevertheless, considering that you didn't ever tweak your settings, that tells me that you aren't some one looking to maximize smoothness, and there were several settings that I typically enable that hit the CPU quite hard, particularly shader @ "Complicated", which is never enabled by default in SVP even with the fastest of CPUs.

Therefore, even if you do have to tweak the settings in order to have good performance, you sound like someone that wouldn't really have an issue with not having "the smoothest motion possible" (which is actually quite apparent considering that you're looking to play 24fps content at 60Hz which is less than ideal).

Actually, a lot of anime is encoded in 10bit AVC which no hardware decoder supports.

There's still different levels of smoothness.  Not only that, but SVP can actually interpolate to pretty much any framerate and not just 60fps.

Since you're only using SVP 4 Free, you do not see all of the settings.  The old SVP 3.1.7 has most of the settings that SVP 4 has, so you can use 3.1.7 to "try out" those settings for free.

Also, as I alluded to earlier, you actually get a smoother result by interpolating by integer values, so 24fps content (like anime) looks smoother at 72Hz than it would at 75Hz even though 75 is a greater value than 72 - more info.

D'oh, you posted before you saw my edit!   Please go re-read my previous post for more information.

Well then why are you looking to getting Cannon Lake?  SVP loves "moar cores", so either Skylake-E or AMD's Zen would be better suited to the task.

SVP does not reduce the video quality (unless you have a 10bit monitor - SVP outputs at 8bit currently) - the artifacts I mention are purely in the interpolated frames, not the source frames.

My settings are very intensive and are designed for 720p with my 4.6GHz overclock and would never give good performance on a G4400 with 1080p content.

If you want, I can give a screenshot of my settings from my laptop with an i5-520M; while said settings are also being used for 720p content, a G4400 may be able to use the very same settings but for 1080p (though you may need to change "half pixel" to "two pixels" and reduce "12px" to "16px").