LIVE FIVE PERFORMANCE TEST - results here

roby · Post by **roby** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:17 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 73
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model Gateway 450SX4 laptop
3) Operating System XP Pro
4) CPU Make Model and Speed Pentium 4 1.6
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) 256mb PC133
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) M-Audio FW 410
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) n/a

not the best system to test on, i know. i dont know the HD speed, but it definitely needs some serious defragging. one of my RAm slots is bad so i can only run one RAM chip, hence the 256mb. i have to get a 512 stick soon. also all useless services and background applications were off.
i'll test on my main computer tonight...

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:17 pm

CPU Meter:65-72%
Laptop/Make/Model:Powerbook G4 15"
OS: OSX 10.3.9
CPU:G4 1.33 Ghz
RAM:512MB DDR SDRAM (Stock)
Soundcard:Built-In (for this test)
HD Speed:5400 rpm

Looks like a sports car, drives like a taxi...

Haha oh well.

So far I've never had "not enough". One or two glitches once when I played back lots of audio tracks, otherwise fine. Wouldn't swap it !

cherry-k · Post by **cherry-k** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:07 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 42-47%
2) Laptop/Desktop: Shuttle xpc ss51 Desktop
3) Operating System: Win XP Pro SP 2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: Pentium 4, 2,4 GHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram: 1GB DDR 200
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?): M-Audio Delta 66 PCI
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): Maxtor 120 GB, 7200 rpm, 8MB

roby · Post by **roby** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:47 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 47
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model Sager 8887 laptop
3) Operating System Windows 2000 Pro
4) CPU Make Model and Speed Pentium 4 2.4
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) 1gig PC133
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) Echo Layla24 laptop
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) 7,200rpm

Aural Chaos · Post by **Aural Chaos** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:54 pm

1) CPU meter 60%
2) Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop
3) OS-XPSP2
4)P4 1.8Ghz
5) 640 MB
6) Echo Indigo I/O
7) 5400 RPM

I was on the high side w/the Live 4 perf test too.

Though in real life,I never run into problems,but I only use a couple tracks and not too many fx either.

serotoninsteve · Post by **serotoninsteve** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:13 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 48-54%
2) Laptop Toshiba satellite 5200-701
3) Operating System-XP pro
4) CPU Make Model and Speed P4m 1,9MHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram - 2x 256 DDR SDRam PC2100 @ 133MHz
6) Soundcard - stock yamaha XG lowest latency 70ms

- indigo DJ down to 256 samples

7) Hard Disk Drive Speed 4200 rpm 2 Mb cache

Greetings

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:51 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 44%
2) Apple G5 Desktop
3) OSX Tiger 10.4.2
4) CPU; dual 1.8 ghz
5) Ram; 1.25 GB
6) Soundcard; Internal
7) Hard Disk; 7200 rpm

drush · Post by **drush** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:37 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 43%
2) Apple G5 Desktop
3) OSX Tiger 10.4.2
4) CPU; dual 2.0 ghz
5) Ram; 2.5 GB
6) Soundcard; RME Multiface/PCI
7) Hard Disk; 7200 rpm SATA

ooo, a whole percentage point!

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:02 am

drush wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 43%
2) Apple G5 Desktop
3) OSX Tiger 10.4.2
4) CPU; dual 2.0 ghz
5) Ram; 2.5 GB
6) Soundcard; RME Multiface/PCI
7) Hard Disk; 7200 rpm SATA

ooo, a whole percentage point!

haaaah..
so you beat me by 1%?
damn..

but very strange;
you've got double my RAM and a slightly faster CPU..
or is it the RME that slows things down?

etcher · Post by **etcher** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:20 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 35%
2) Laptop/Desktop - Custom Build Desktop
3) Operating System - WinXP sp2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - Athlon XP 3000+ (2.17Ghz)
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram - 1G DDR 333
6) Soundcard - Maudio Delta 66 pci
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed - 7200 rpm audio only hard drive

Airbase · Post by **Airbase** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:57 am

1) 24%
2) Custom Built Workstation
3) Operating System - Win XP
4) P4 3,6 GHz Socket 468
5) 2 GB Dual Channel DDR
6) M-Audio Audiophile 2496
7) 7200 rpm

subterFUSE · Post by **subterFUSE** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:39 pm

Seems like we have a pretty decent sized compilaton of results....

Are we going to see a consolidated results list?

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:47 pm

well, i could draw charts and graphs, but i don't have any app that allows it...
would be nice to have 2 different charts for macs and PCs.

by the way, i'm really surprised how a simple set like this one can suck such a big amount of CPU.

Danji · Post by **Danji** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:43 pm

On Live 5.01 Demo
1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 36-39%

2) Laptop- Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D8830
3) Operating System - WinXP Home sp1
4) CPU Make Model and Speed -P4 3.06HT
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram - 2048 DDR 2700
6) Soundcard - Maudio 410Firewire
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed - ??4200-5400??

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:46 pm

Danji wrote:On Live 5.01 Demo
1) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 36-39%
2) Laptop- Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D8830
3) Operating System - WinXP Home sp1
4) CPU Make Model and Speed -P4 3.06HT
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram - 2048 DDR 2700
6) Soundcard - Maudio 410Firewire
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed - ??4200-5400??

That's not bad at all why the sad face

?
I'm on a 3.2ghz Machine and get 32% so i wouldn't be all that worried.
This test was meant to be far more CPU intensive than the last one.
In relative terms you're still doin' better than a G5 1.8-2.0ghz system by a few %.
And none of our fellow Mac buddies are finding Live unproductive at those levels of CPU use.
I get more than enough juice on my PC IMHO.
You do on yours also.
Seriously are you finding that level of CPU functionality is not enough ?
Just curious.

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