2020 Better CPU Handling?

[jamesa5454]

I've noticed a substantial drop in performance after moving up to 2020.3, but it's important to note that I also moved up my OS as well. Overall an 11% increase in CPU usage on the system (for the exact same session). Pro Tools specifically jumped from 354% CPU usage to 440%. I'm working with video and the net result is that Pro Tools is now dropping frames, which makes it unusable.

I made a detailed post in the Post forum - check it out here if you like:

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?p...87#post2560687

[danyg]

I think the CPU meter is different now. In 2019 I had f.ex. 42% but 2 cores 11-12 where at 80% and I had peaks and errors sometimes.

Now the overall shows 50% but the cores are more even and the system is stable. Just my setup of course....and maybe it's just voodoo thinking
But generally happy.

[weezul]

Just done another mix with some folder tracks aww yis :) And the CPU behaved. There is still slight loading on CPU 4 as always, but overall 15%, core 4 10%. Again not a massive session, just a rock track with sampled drums (so much less on drums than normal) so behaving as expected. Seemed a little bit more snappy, for instance enabling Ozone 8 on master and there was no massive pause or anything. Routing all the vocal tracks to a routing folder as the track played back (with ozone on master fader) worked as well. Everything at 128 buffer still. Can't complain at the moment!