new improved way better benchmark test for Macs

[Freeheel]

Stone Knife set off a firestorm with his post on Benchmarking and I'm sure a lot of people who went to the post to actually get some idea of whether their systems were optimized or whether they should buy this or that computer were a little disappointed. I am a mac user and don't care about pc/mac antagonism. Anyone who wishes to take part in this test please post here. And no this isn't about genital size -this is about knowing how similar computers compare when running PT. If someone with the same CPU as mine is getting significantly more tracks, I have to figure out what is slowing mine down. (although phase of the moon seems to have the largest effect)

The test is as follows.
*** NOTE Make sure your Sample rate is set at 44100 under the Setups-->Hardware menu option. Set your Hardware Buffers to 1024.
1) Open new PT session
2) Create a new mono audio track
3) Add PT stock effects Compressor, 4B-EQ, Slap delay, medium delay, long delay.
4) Open the System Usage meter to see the CPU utilization.
5) With your mouse select the newly created track from step 2 above.
6) Duplicate the track)
7) Record enable the track.
8) Repeat step 6 until your CPU goes into the red.
9) If your CPU is in the RED delete the last track created. IF it's still in the red, delete another track until the CPU is back in the green. Click on the CPU meter after every deletion to reset the meter (see warning below). Going into the RED means your getting a -9128 message from PT.
10) Hit RECORD, and record for 60 sec. (it doesn't matter what you record as the file still get's created). If your CPU goes into the RED then delete a track and repeat step 10 until you can record 60 secs. without peaking.
*** N.B. If you can achieve the full 24 tracks with record enabled and can record for 60 secs. start adding Aux tracks with the same plug-ins and keep going until you hit RED.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I also did my session at 24 bit.

I'm running a 733 G4 with 001. 768 MG of Ram L2 cache =256K L3 cache = 1MB
OS 9.2.1
using this test I could run 10 tracks loaded with the plugs.

Anyone interested in benchmarking please add their posts.
Anyone interested in arguing the relative merits of benchmarking or fighting about PC/MAC please add their posts to Stone Knife's thread "the dave c test)

[Munxcub]

I ran the test exactly as it was stated, at 24 bit as well, and i got 15 tracks.

G4 933
512 MB RAM
256 K L2 cache
2 MB L3 cache
OS 9.2.2
AM III w/ PT LE

[ckerian]

Only 10 tracks? that is way disappointing. I think my 9600 could do this easily and i will try when i get home. no wonder PC trolls make fun of us...

[OgnKog]

8 Tracks only... [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

G4 400 Mhz
512 Ram
OS 9.02

[rat1016]

10 tracks. Slow redraws. I'm using a G4 400,
256 ram and OS 9.2.2 Hope this helps!
Matt

[kris whitten]

10 tracks too

g4 400 768mb quantum 20 gb drive 4 audio

dae buffer set at 2

everything else as requested

I could get 11/12 tracks before I hit the red, but would get the -9128 error upon htting record

DAE has 70000 memory

Ptle has 78950 memory

Would more/less mem allocation help????

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[Munxcub]

i got 20 or 21 tracks without before hitting record. i got 16 tracks to record with the buffer at 256...

with that much ram you could easily put more into them. i have 512 MB ram and DAE has 100000 and PT has 110000 i think...

[kris whitten]

on what CPU did you get those counts? ANd isn't it known that assigning too much memory can have an adverse effect on performance???

Where o WHERE is WHERE02910????

Tell me what you run for memory settings Where, or Park (where the hell is Park?)

I actually am impressed with the results I got. I have never in my life used 50 plug ins, while recording.......

[jeronimo]

Hello Mac friends. I'll try this later tonight or tomorrow on my Dual 533, but I have a comment on this topic.
Shouldn't we try something more useful? I don't think anyone will record w/ all those plugins...
Why shouldn't we try to record 60sec of nothing on 24tracks and after that, start adding plugins to see how far we go. I remember a similar topic a while ago, we should try that today to see how are the results with the new Macs... what do you guys think?

[Munxcub]

make the rules, and i'll give it a try. this test really doesnt mean much to me, because like you said, its not realistic. someone should amke a test that is based on what actually happens in a real session.