C14 only using 4 cores?

[mducharme]

@DitaminV

This is what I’m talking about. Someone finally did the work to show the disparity between DAWs. Cubase 14’s threading performance in Windows is atrocious.

It is less than Reaper’s performance to be sure, but make sure you read the text and don’t just look at the graph because the graph itself is unintentionally misleading. More info here:

Steinberg: any news on core handling in coming updates for Win 11?

You have to read the fine print though. When you look at the bar charts it is quite dramatic. But in actuality this is the count of additional plugins that could be loaded on top of the normal DAWbench session which is already very heavily loaded and all DAWs could handle. In other words, imagine Cubase and Reaper both had 100 plugins each in their test config and both handle that just fine. Then you decide to see how many you can add before you start getting overloads and dropouts and find wi…

Looking at the bar graphs alone makes it seem like Reaper is 10x faster than Cubase. There is a sizeable difference between them but it isn’t nearly as big as the bar graph alone makes it seem.