DAWbench

[buzz1]

Thanks for sharing your knowlage on hardware Pictus.
I am not at all an expert so can I ask; is heating ramped up by how much work the processor has to do at any given time. But if not used near capacity stays cooler anyway.
I.E like a big car engine that may produce huge power and heat when pushed occasionally but most of the time stays well below its limits and thus lasts longer- if you get my drift.......

[Pictus]

You are welcome.
The more it works, more heat it produces, no work and they stay cool.
Also, to work at higher speeds they consume too much power and
generates too much heat, underclock and undervolt a bit and they
can run a lot cooler as you can see in the previous video.

[buzz1]

Got it.
Many thanks.

[agharta]

Power consumed is directly related to the frequency of the chip and to the square of its voltage.
That’s why reducing voltage is such a big deal.
E.g.
Increasing only the voltage by 20 percent will increase power consumption by 44 percent.
Increasing only the frequency by 20 percent will increase power consumption by 20 percent.

[Pictus]

AMD Ryzen 7950X: Impact of Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) on Thermals and Content Creation Performance
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/artic ... ance-2373/

[Pictus]

DAWbench Suite - AMD 7000 and 13th Gen Intel results
https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.ph ... tcount=934

[vignesh.vijay]

I’m struggling a little to read this. Can someone explain how to read this?

[Pictus]

I’m struggling a little to read this. Can someone explain how to read this?

This may help
viewtopic.php?p=8410859#p8410859

BTW, I am not with time to post in the forums anymore.

[Pictus]

[Pictus]

https://www.scanproaudio.info/2024/09/12/5075/



https://gearspace.com/board/music-compu ... eaper.html

[VitaminD]

Unless you have a rather specialized need, most PCs are overkill for general music production today.

Take even a mid level NUC (500 dollars or less) and you can record 32 channels @ 24/44khz stereo at probably a 128 to 64 buffer. Which is probably within the scope of much of commercial music today. Which is great because it makes the entry into music production so much easier today than ever.

Of course you can geek out and make PC optimizing your hobby. But if you just want to lay down some tracks, and are smart with it, it doesn't really matter so much today.

[Scotty]

Channel count is almost meaningless in this discussion unless tied to VSTi instances and effect counts.Perhaps you were taking this as a given but it is easy to max out a machine with modern production techniques. We were getting channel counts in the 100s in the early 2000s but the processing tended to be basic with EQ and compression with a couple of global effects.

[NER]

One issue with these power draw benchmarks (at least for Intel, the platform I'm familiar with) is that there are different power limit settings for PL1/PL2 that Intel specificies (set in the bios) that change the power draw vs performance tradeoff, along with the fact that motherboard makers include a 'multicore enhancement' option that greatly increases power draw. These should probably be set more conservatively than the defaults which are meant for maxing out gaming benchmarks

[NER]

Unless you have a rather specialized need, most PCs are overkill for general music production today.

Well the thing is PCs are used for multitasking. It's not just your DAW running processes, people usually have a browser with multitabs open, among other shit.

So it's not gonna be specialized needs that require more compute, but generalized ones

[holmer]

There's a Dawbench DSP and a Dawbench VI file to download.
What do they do?
Thanks.