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Xeon CPUs are not magic. They use the same CPU cores as their desktop counterparts, but support more memory and memory channels, support for ECC memory, and have more PCIe lanes. If you don't need any of those things, Xeon CPUs give you nothing that a desktop CPU can't.

One short coming of (nearly all) Xeons is their lack of iGPU. Which isn't a problem if you intend to add a dedicated GPU, but it is something to consider. GPUs can run circles around CPUs for encoding. Both in speed and in power efficiency.

Most of the cheap Xeons you are probably looking at are probably 8-10 year old Xeons with Broadwell, or older, CPU cores. They would NOT be much faster than your FX9590.

If you have a budget in mind, we can give you some hardware selection recommendations based on your needs and intended usage.