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Would it be fair then to say that Pro Tools and RX and such don't really benefit from the larger multi-core systems as much as higher single core speeds?
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Not at all. In fact, totally the opposite. DAWs spread the tracks out among cores and are often some of the best utilizers of multiple cores (parallel processing). I thought the OP was referring to
offline RX performance, which is single-core. Online, multiple-plug-in performance is multi-core. I think it was Bobby Lombardi who talked about the fact that an individual track in Pro Tools has to exist on one core, so if you have just a few tracks with a zillion plug-ins on each track, high clock speed per core will help you (you'll get a CPU overage if one track maxes out one core, regardless of numbers of cores not used). But if you have a zillion tracks with just a few plug-ins on each track, Pro Tools will balance the track load across all available cores.