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Old 10-30-2020, 07:25 PM
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I relied on similar info when I bought my factory spec 8 core. Hard to tell whether that info was borne out in practice as it's the only trashcan I have so have no direct comparison. I think if running as many (non-VI) AAX Native plugins as possible then the 12 core is the machine for you - I premixed a show recently where the template had been setup on a 12 core and it wouldn't reliably run on my 8 core.

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Hi Pete That is pretty telling when it will not run on your 8 core, but was ok on the 12 core. Any chance it was RAM related or do you have lots of RAM?


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I am using a 10 core in my trash can. It’s a great machine, but I feel like the question is over baking the cake a little bit. Particularly between the 10 and 12 core CPU, there is less than 2% difference in benchmarks.
Hi I certainly agree with your comment to not sweat 2%. Which benchmarks are you referring to? I am not finding any performance data for our world, and system benchmarks, such as geekbench are more in the 20% difference range. . . I have had many problems with my 2012 mac pro and native/VIs. . . so I am just dotting i's and crossing t's. . . that apprehension, plus there just does not seem to be any real test info out there, makes me think others are in the same boat, so I thought it would be good to try and dig up some info. Google is not finding much out there in this regard.

The overhead of managing cores can be a significant hit to performance in real time processing. . . so more is not always more. Not doubting anyones comments, just wish there was some real data/bench marks for reference.

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Old 10-31-2020, 12:31 PM
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Hi Pete That is pretty telling when it will not run on your 8 core, but was ok on the 12 core. Any chance it was RAM related or do you have lots of RAM?
64GB RAM and the session was completely cached so it was definitely a processor power issue.

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Found this thread:
https://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=400384

Sounds like the 10 core is able to remain at its peak single core performance even when all cores are working hard, likely because it does not readily throttle back due to heat (my uneducated statement).

I am taking the dive:
eBay 10 Core Processor
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I recently upgraded my Trash can from 6 core to 12 core CPU. I did it myself, which was not quite as easy as I thought. I also upgraded RAM from 32 to 64 GB. I did notice improvements all the way around, especially using Native plug ins(I have 1 HDX card). On the VI side I have to freeze tracks less often, but playing VI’s for recording at lower buffer rates below 256 is hit and miss depending in the VI. I even spread my VI’s over 2 external Thunderbolt 2 external drives instead of one hoping to improve VI performance. I think now my bottle neck for the VI’s are the drives. I think they should be SSD’s as the platters just can’t always deliver the samples fast enough. Maybe PT 2020.11 will help with its supposed optimize CPU newly added feature?
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10-core is great (slightly better than 12-core at singlecore, slightly worse at multicore) but as Apple has never sold them on MP you need to do the CPU swap yourself and it is not the easiest job
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