AMD Ryzen 3rd gen. ZEN 2 processors for audio PC
- KVRian
- 935 posts since 21 Aug, 2017 from Brasil
- KVRAF
- 7343 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
To save people from having to watch 22 minutes of that: he likes the Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus. It runs relatively cool for its cheap price.
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- KVRist
- 139 posts since 23 Mar, 2019
Pete's comparative cpu tests are excellent, but not being an SGA user I am wondering, does anyone know, however approximately, how one instance of say the high quality setting used in the latest test compares to a soft synth;-any of the more well known vsts would be helpful as I have no idea at all of the scale of the relationship between the two.
Thanks
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 2989 posts since 5 Nov, 2014
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- KVRAF
- 3319 posts since 16 Jan, 2005 from Ottawa, Ontario
Not when a 12 core AMD at #1 is smoking an 18 core Intel thusly...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/desktop.html
...not daw relative marks, but still..
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- KVRAF
- 35410 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
- Banned
- 3564 posts since 22 Aug, 2019
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- KVRAF
- 2941 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
Scanaudio has been quiet lately.... I though they were going to release the results of some new memory dependent tests for the Ryzens. Perhaps things still still too fluid to justify the testing time?
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- KVRAF
- 35410 posts since 11 Apr, 2010 from Germany
I guess it really depends where you're looking, and how it is tested. First time i read about that.
- KVRAF
- 7134 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
So the hottest new CPU is still only twice as "fast" (single threaded) as my ageing AMD FX 8350? That does surprise me. (Although the "number of samples" is 192 for the top vs ~16K for my FX, so not exactly like for like...)
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- KVRAF
- 2941 posts since 23 Dec, 2002
Yes the single threaded scores are not anywhere near Moore's law (should be retired and called Moore's Trail of Broken Dreams). Relative to my 3930K which is what 6 years old now the latest builds give me about 50% more single core performance which is a bit of a letdown there.
However the multithreaded performance is very impressive and if your DAW can use the cores you'll have a smile on your face in most cases.
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- KVRAF
- 3057 posts since 4 Jan, 2005
Hey pljones is that your main DAW computer just curious ? I'm on an i7 920 6gb ram , I think I'm gonna ditch my FireWire EchoAudiofire4 and get a new Focusrite 4i4 before I blow the cash on a new build .. Seems Windows10 and the EchoAudiofire4 are not liking each other as much these days ... I mainly use drum samples types of VSTi , loops , and record audio , no big CPU taxing softsynths , so I just feel I don't quite need the ROBUST power of a new CPU and computer build , So is that your main DAW computer ???
- KVRAF
- 7134 posts since 8 Feb, 2003 from London, UK
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Well... "main" in the sense I do my "offline" work on it and it's still fine for that, using my FW Echo AudioFire4 - but I have to use ASIO4All when I'm using MuLab. Meanwhile, Reaper is OK with it. Weird but with Echo having dropped any idea of keeping drivers up to date, there you are.
My "live" kit is a Core i5 8600 ITX box with a Zoom UAC-2. It's not perfect. (I get audio glitches which I can't diagnose - buffer size doesn't fix them...)
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Well... "main" in the sense I do my "offline" work on it and it's still fine for that, using my FW Echo AudioFire4 - but I have to use ASIO4All when I'm using MuLab. Meanwhile, Reaper is OK with it. Weird but with Echo having dropped any idea of keeping drivers up to date, there you are.
My "live" kit is a Core i5 8600 ITX box with a Zoom UAC-2. It's not perfect. (I get audio glitches which I can't diagnose - buffer size doesn't fix them...)
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