I know this is not the hardware forum... but!
usual Dawbench
 
yup its time again

bear in mind these are preliminary and stock only for
right now. OCed number later.

still have much tweaking to do. and more
stability.

5960x @3.00 (8 core)
Turbo @ 3.5
Win 8.1
Cubase
7.5.2
Hdspe
32 buffer 208
64 buffer 229
128 buffer 233
256 buffer 240
 
ok just got OCed numbers @ 4.5GHz

32 buffer 281
64 buffer 319
have to stop here as we are OUT of space. (exceeding test)



5930k @ 3.5 (stock) only turbo's to
3.7
32 buffer 162
64 buffer 178
128 buffer 189
256 buffer 197

basically a 20% jump from 4930K

over clocked 5930K @ 4.5GHz
32 buffer 197
64 buffer 213
128 buffer 224
256buffer 236


and 5820k @4.5GHz
32buffer 198
64 buffer 212
128 buffer 224
256 buffer 230



compared to:

Single 2697 v2 12 core 2.7ghz
RME
HDSPe
RXC-EXT
Cubase 7.5

@32 buffer 215
@64 264
@128 270
@256 279

for comparison

4930k @3.4 16gb RAM
RME HDSPe/
Digiface
Cubase 7.0.4

32 buffer 135
64 buffer 144
128 buffer 156
256 buffer 157

updated with 5930K and 5820K

Hey, Scott.  Thanks for the numbers.  Is the 5930 a four or six core?
 
Kind regards,
 
Living Room Rocker

 
I'm curious as to how this relates to X3, especially since the tests are using Cubase.
 
In what situation would you need so much power ?
 

I am really surpirsed about the result of OCed 5930 6 core comparing to OCed 5820 4 core. Does that mean you better off with 5820? The numbers are almost identical but the prices are big difference when adding Motherboard and RAM.

the 5820 and 5930K are BOTH 6 core. only difference is 28 lanes vs 40 lanes of PCIe bandwidth for many audio people it wont matter. for those with multiple UADs and/or multiple PCIe interfaces it will.
 
the 5960X is an 8 core..
 

Paul P
 
I'm curious as to how this relates to X3, especially since the tests are using Cubase.
 
In what situation would you need so much power ?
 

its irrelevant what DAW you use as long as that daw is multi-thread ability. (some don't do it well)
so the % ability would be the same in sonar vs Cubase vs PT

What are the numbers after the buffer size?

www.dawbench.com
 
number of RCX compressor.  he offers a few options.

Hi Scott

Thanks for your answer. Are you the Scott from ADK? Anyway, I'm a returned customer.

Now, is there a big difference between that 2 CPU for heavy usage of East West Quantum leap and Waves Audio plug-ins with just 1 MOTU 424 card and 1 audio interface?

Thank you

Sam