I have a 285K and tested it with Dom Sigala’s benchmark. I was able to play 250 copied tracks with buffer 64. I am very satisfied after the 13900K drove me crazy.
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What a great score!
I’ve just tested on 14900K 64GB Nuendo 13 Pro on RME UFX3
and having such low buffer as 64 samples reached 148 tracks.
With a buffer 512 it was 168 tracks.
BTW it is my 3rd 14900K processor and its is dying (after 2 months) as two i9’s before… do not even think to buy this crap.
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to put this into perspective a user here did this test using the ARM version of Cubase on a Snapdragon Laptop and got 220 tracks 
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Wow!
What specific laptop? What OS and audio interface and buffer size?
here you go.
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Just wondering how stability is with the 285k intel and what motherboard/memory specs you are using with success?
I use the Asus Gaming Z890 Plus-Wifi and 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 6800 and everything just works. Turn on-work-coffee, exactly as it should.
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Windows 11 pro 24H2
Intel core ultra 9 285k
Asus Prime Z890-P wifi
4 x 24 gb DDR5 memory running at 6000Mhz
Asus Hyper Card M.2 x16 gen 5 card with
3 x 4 TB Crucial T705 pcie 5.0x4 in Raid0 configuration
Radeon rx 7600xt 16gb
MR816csx with FW card.
No problems at all!
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Unfortunately, optimizations are inevitable. But if they are, then optimize them properly.
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Brilliant to know . There are conflicting reports over the new intel platform. So no mysterious blue screens or system oddness?
I even advocate for more and detailed information about specific instruction subsets of processors.
I encourage the software-vendors like Steinberg not only to publish the minimal requirements but also in detail, if specific instruction sets are used (optionally) and of what advantage (if available).
In WaveLab 9 I can see, the AVX-instruction set is used. (Optinal or obligatory, I don’t know.)
If I would buy a now processor, the full-fledged energy efficient AVX-512 implementation of the AMD Zen 5 (AMD 9950X, 9700, 9800X3D, 9950X3D) would excite me. It would be nice if this gives a considerable performance boost if implemented.
states:
“On vs. off, the Ryzen 9 9950X impressively gained 56% more performance on average across all benchmarks compared to having AVX-512 acceleration turned off. The 7950X similarly saw a still impressive 41% performance improvement with AVX-512 acceleration turned on vs off.”
I found some information what instruction Set is used in WaveLab 9. (My processor has AVX2 support and has a Zen 3 architecture)
Looking on the same place where WaveLab 9 states, AVX is used and the application is optimized for, I find in Nuendo 13 no information.
What does WaveLab 11 and 12 state on this place on computers, that have a AMD Zen 5 architecture?
Other applications, plug-In-vendors? … ??
From what I’ve read, there are a lot of discussions about AMD and Intel, often among gamers. Since I have UAD PCIe cards (Quad), Intel is currently the only option for me. I’m completely satisfied. Win 11 24H also brings with it a lot of problems. Here I’m using the Microwin from Chris Titus.
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Sounds like we both have the same needs - I have 3 UAD DSP Cards. I have an important question over the motherboard. I need 5 PCIe Slots (3 UAD Cards and 1 RME Card + graphics card. Does this mother board have 5 slots?
I have a UAD-2 Solo card and am looking at buying an audio computer built by one of the companies.
Does that mean AMD is not an option in my to-be- built new system?
Probably. Solo, duo and quad cards are different from the Octos, and in order to make those cards work on recent AMD motherboards you’ll need a motherboard with a BIOS that fixes the problem. You can check in a specific thread on Gearspace dedicated to this issue to see what motherboards people have had success with.
Octos work fine as far as I know.
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I read that too
According to the people from DAWbench Cubase runs better on the newest Intel systems vs AMD. They are more or less on par when using Reaper, depending on what you need to do with it (Intel can manage more VSTs and VSTis overall, but bus processing is done more efficiently by AMD on Reaper).
Just check their Gearspace thread, lots of good information about it there. DAWBench DSP / VI Universal - Cross Platform DAW Benchmarks : - Page 57 - Gearspace
No need to dig through a thread when the test results are visible on Scanproaudio’s website: AMD’s 9950X3D & 9900X3D Tested, Has X3D Finally Struck Studio Gold?
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Yeah, but the results of the graphs are done with Reaper.
Cubase does indeed run better on Intel according to the guy behind DAWBench (has to do something with how the Cubase process gets distributed on the different cores, which does work better on Intel for Cubase at least).
Actually you see, that many DAWs handle their processes very inefficiently, whereas Reaper is having the best performance, and therefore the no 1 pick for benchmarks.