Anyone use Live 12 on Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or AMD Ryzen 9 9950X?

[planet_b]

Hey,

I'd love to research the performance of the current high-end consumer CPU's, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or AMD Ryzen 9 9950X. It could be a XEON or a Threadripper too (but it's already known that the low single core performance is not making these ideal for Live).

In case you have either of these and you're using Live 12 and have extensive collection of 3rd party VST plugins, I'd love to do some testing with you. Let me know in private message or post here.

[planet_b]

Anyone?

[schlam]

Hello, I don't have the CPU you mentione but I have an AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS( 8C/16T, 4.9GHz), 24GB DDR5 and Live runs really smooth !
And yes , it seems that the ratio performance core/efficient core is a crucial point to look at for the use of Ableton Live

[planet_b]

Well yes, there are big differences on how each rig performs, depending on your set structure and the tools used. Some plugins offer multicore support internally to help with spreading the load evenly, but most of them don't.

Some time ago, I had two desktop machines side by side, doing comparison in order to decide which one to sell. A Ryzen 9 5950X (16 core/32 thread) and Intel I9 13900K (24 core/32 thread). And one would think, that since the Ryzen comes with 16 "full speed" cores while I9 has only 8 performance cores and 16 slower efficiency cores.. you'd think it'd be clear who wins? No, I ended up choosing the I9 at the time, with the set of plugins I'm using, it gave me the best performance. Yet, still huge amount of processing power is left unused due to Live running into 100% CPU load and starts breaking up the audio.

As now two CPU generations has passed since those tests, it'd be fun to see how is it with today's top performers.