Hello,
I’ve been searching online for quite a while trying to decide whether I should go for the AMD 7900X or the Intel Ultra 7 265K. Sometimes I read that the E-cores are well utilized, other times not at all. Then I see DAW benchmark comparisons where the Intel clearly outperforms the AMD.
Honestly, I’m a bit lost. I have absolutely no preference between the two — I just want the one that works best.
Would you have any advice? For my budget, I can afford either the Ultra 7 265K or the 7900X — they are the same price where I live.
I use a lot of VSTs, I record many instruments, often with buffer sizes of 64 or 128. In short, I use a bit of everything. Do you think that for this new setup, it would be possible to get something around 1300 euros or Swiss francs on digitech.ch (I’m focusing only on that website)?
If anyone could help me out a little, I’d really appreciate it. Have a great day!
If your focus is virtual instruments and low latency then the “VI” test is the one that’s most relevant I think. Looks like the Intel is about 20% better at 64 samples, around 17% better at 128…
Thank you for your answer. Yes, that’s the bench I saw. As a beginner, I still have trouble understanding the E-cores and P-cores. I figured the other one had more, so it should perform better, but based on the results, maybe it would be better to go with the Intel. Do you have any recommendations for components that would let me get the most out of this processor — especially the motherboard and RAM?
In a nutshell more performance comes at the cost of using more power and generating more heat. So the “efficiency” cores are more efficient in that they use less energy in general, but then the opposite applies and they don’t perform as ‘high’.
But software is more complex than just “more is better” so as long as Cubase can correctly adjust to a P+E core design anything that would be a bottleneck for the CPU should end up on these faster cores.
You can maybe think of an instrument track with a very heavy VST instrument followed by heavy plugins, and then they go to a group with more plugins and then the master output with even more plugins. That’s one long chain that has to be calculated. Other tracks may have shorter or less ‘heavy’ signal paths before they reach the output, so maybe the most demanding and time-sensitive paths get their own thread that runs on P-cores, and the less heavy paths end up on E-cores.
It gets a bit more complicated than that but think that’s one way of thinking about it.
Unfortunately not. I only put together AMD systems for myself. Check on Gearspace.com in the pinned thread on building a PC (in the “Computer” section).
I’ve been told Ryzen for gaming, Intel for creating.
Maybe intel is better.
But do you know the various problems with intel these days?
The problem of CPU degradation a while ago, the problem of cpu itself warping from the shape of the cpu, and the problem of the cpu itself warping from the shape of the cpu. (You have to buy a special socket separately.)
I chose Ryzen because I am afraid of these things.
I think Intel is a bit dangerous these days. Of course, I can’t say that Ryzen is a perfect bug-free system.
Depending on the audio interface you use, it may not be compatible with Ryzen.
I use UAD appollo and have not had any problems.
When I see overclocking I see Marty in Back To The Future strum his guitar in front of that gargantuan speaker. “Marty, be careful, there may be a slight possibility of overload.”
I under-clock my CPU and GPU, just in case.
Anyway MLIB, we’re expanding our studio and there’s no sales tax in Florida throughout the month of August so we stepped up our CPU to the Ultra 9 285K with the advanced cooling.
We will have to see how many extra tracks we’re going to be adding to our orchestrations but I know we’ll have the head room
One more question my friend:
The new computer is coming to us in a few days and we want to make a smooth transition from the old computer. If we can create a profile setting file and save it to an external drive do you think this would be the easiest way to import it to the new computer
I would assume that we would have to install CB 14 Pro first.
“The easiest way to transfer Cubase 14 Pro settings and presets to a new computer without losing them is by using the Profile Manager within Cubase. This feature allows you to save your custom settings, key commands, toolbar settings, and more into a profile, which can then be exported and imported on another computer”
Thanks a lot