how many mix farm cards = a hd 1?

[mdotbeatz]

I was building a mix system I want to know how much power I would have compared to a hd system.

[Ted Spencer]

An HD core or process card has about twice the DSP power of a mix core or farm card. An HD accel card has abour 4 times as much. The exact amount depends on the specific plugins being used. Note that there is no such thing as an HD accel core - all HD systems have non-accel core cards.

Ted Spencer, NYC
tedspencerrecording.com

[Dopamine]

Does this stand to reason that a Mix+ (core card and mix farm card) has about the same power as a HD 1 rig?

[Ted Spencer]

Yes, a Mix+ is approximately equivalent to an HD1 in terms of DSP power at 48K and lower sampling rates. The HD1 can run higher rates, of course, where the Mix systems can't, but an HD1 running at 96K would have about the same plugin power as a Mix core at 48K.

Ted Spencer, NYC
tedspencerrecording.com

[hanz marathon]

Hi,

to make it more complicated you have to keep in mind, that an HD card has nine chips (six chips in Mixsystem).
So if you use a lot of different plugs the HD System might be not really be as powerfull.
I personally have a HD 3 System and I work a 44.1KHz. I never seem to have all power used with this configuration.
So I am really satisfied. But if I would want to go to 96KHz, there might be not enough DSP.....

best from germany

Hanz Marathon

[Dopamine]

Thanks, Hanz and Ted, for the clarification!