LIVE FIVE PERFORMANCE TEST - results here

Discuss music production with Ableton Live.
Digi V
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Post by Digi V » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:17 pm

ok, i can understand so glitch wants to see where to put his money.

then what are your choices glitch? you do realize this is a core machine running only one of its 2.0, hence 2.0 core right?

if its not where you want it to be try seeing if anyone has the 2.1

in the next 3 months i'm sure the 2.1 will degradded to the second level pro book.

i think yonah reaches 2.3 before merom comes in at 2.5

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Post by glitchrock-buddha » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:53 am

Serenity now.
Anybody else feel like we're talking over each other heads? wow. I feel like I'm on crazy pills! 8O :lol: :lol:

I keep hearing that the test is unreliable because of speedstepping etc. etc. but I'm telling you. I duplicated one of the tracks again and again on a macbook until the processor choked at usual 75%, with the same increase after every addition, so I'm just saying, from what I've seen, it ain't happening, therefor I still think the test is accurate. I would love to be proven wrong, that is what I'm hoping and trying to pull out of here like a tooth.

And honestly, thanks for the buying tips, but I've got my options all sorted, I know exactly where I'm at with all that. I just wanted to know if your report of 30% was real or imagined, and get a peak value. That's all.

I am going to respectfully bow out of this one as it is going nowhere fast.
:)
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Post by warpus » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:47 pm

Just got my 2.16Ghz MacBook Pro today. The machine is loaded with 2GB RAM and the 7200 rpm HD. I'll give it the Live 5.2b acid test tonight and post the results.

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Post by warpus » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:09 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 39%-42% (44% Peak)
2) Apple MacBook Pro
3) OS X 10.4.5
4) 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
5) 2 GGB DDR2 SDRA
6) MOTU Traveler
7) 7200 rpm


A little slower than my 2.3Ghz Dual Core PowerMac. But for this kind of portability, I'll take it.

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Post by AdamJay » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:15 am

warpus wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 39%-42% (44% Peak)
2) Apple MacBook Pro
3) OS X 10.4.5
4) 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
5) 2 GGB DDR2 SDRA
6) MOTU Traveler
7) 7200 rpm


A little slower than my 2.3Ghz Dual Core PowerMac. But for this kind of portability, I'll take it.
its not running at full cpu speed.
the speedstep is holding it back.

we discussed this a page or two back in this thread.
sooner or later we'll get it sorted.

a good way to see how fast it truley is (at full cpu) for now, is run the Live Test, then run Xbench in the background from www.xbench.com
this will demand full cpu for at least 1 second and you can see the cpu meter drop (probably to the mid to high 20%'s with your macbook)

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Post by ElPat0 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:48 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % ------> 47 (<-peak/ 44 Average)
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model ----> Notebook/Gericom Blockbuster
3) Operating System --------------> XP Pro┤02 SP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed ------> P4 2.66 GHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram --> 512 MB/166 MHz
6) Soundcard ---------------------> USB2.0
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed ---------> 350 MB/s (4200 Rpm)

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Post by RavenMoon » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:40 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % ------> 30%-33%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model ----> Notebook/Compaq R4225CA
3) Operating System --------------> XP home SP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed ------> AMD Athlon 64 3500 2.2ghz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram -->1024MB 333MHz DDR System Memory
6) Soundcard ---------------------> stock- conexant AC-link audio
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed ---------> 100GB (4200RPM) Hard Drive

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Post by dandie » Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:33 am

) Ableton Live CPU Meter % ------> 26%-30%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model ----> Notebook Sony Vaio vgn-fs 215s
3) Operating System --------------> XP home SP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed ------> Intel Pentium M 750 1.86 GHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram -->1024MB 333MHz DDR
6) Soundcard ---------------------> m-audio ozone
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed ---------> 100GB (4200RPM)

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Post by jtpack » Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:49 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % -> 23-25%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model -> Asus z71v laptop
3) Operating System -> Windows XP Pro
4) CPU Make Model and Speed -> Intel Pentium M 760 (2.0 GHz)
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) -> 2 x 1GB Kingston 533MHz
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) -> stock with asio4all !
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) -> Hitachi 7200 rpm 80GB
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Post by Monofever » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:53 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % -> 28-32
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model -> Powermac Quad (2.5)
3) Operating System -> Osx 10.4
4) CPU Make Model and Speed -> Powermac 2.5 Dual Core * 2
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) -> 4*1 GB Kingston + 500mb OEM
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) -> MOTU 828
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) -> 7200 250GB

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Post by kenn michael » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:20 pm

Just bought a Core Duo Mac Mini and have both OSX AND Windows XP SP2 installed. (Dual Boot)

Ran the Live test...

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 36% (running windows) / 38% (running OSX)
2) Core Duo 1.66 Mac Mini
3) Operating System - OSX 10.4.5 / Windows XP SP2
4) Dual 1.66 Proc
5) 1.25GB RAM / 5400 RPM 80GB Drive
6) Soundcard / Emagic EMI 6|2

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Post by pua » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:53 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 27%
2) laptop HP DV 8000
3) Operating System: Windows XP SP2
4) amd athlon turion 64 ML-40 ( 2.2 GHz)
5) 1gb RAM
6) Soundcard : Presonus Firebox
7) for the test I used the internal 5400 RPM 80GB Drive, ( 2nd HD 7200 RPM)


Everything runs really smooth! :D

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Post by Musozo » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:50 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 28-32 (with XBench running in background); 39-42% (without Xbench)
2) Laptop/Desktop? MacBook Pro 1.1
3) Operating System: MacOS X 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: 2Ghz intel Dual Core
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram: 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (one slot)
6) Soundcard: integrated Core Audio
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed: 100GB SATA 5400RPM

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Post by Groovecake » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:07 pm

Musozo wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 28-32 (with XBench running in background); 39-42% (without Xbench)
2) Laptop/Desktop? MacBook Pro 1.1
3) Operating System: MacOS X 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: 2Ghz intel Dual Core
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram: 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (one slot)
6) Soundcard: integrated Core Audio
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed: 100GB SATA 5400RPM


This may be a dumb question, but why was it lower runing xbench?
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Post by Digi V » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:17 pm

Groovecake wrote:
Musozo wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 28-32 (with XBench running in background); 39-42% (without Xbench)
2) Laptop/Desktop? MacBook Pro 1.1
3) Operating System: MacOS X 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: 2Ghz intel Dual Core
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram: 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (one slot)
6) Soundcard: integrated Core Audio
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed: 100GB SATA 5400RPM


This may be a dumb question, but why was it lower runing xbench?
groove where have you been? we've discussed this a plenty.


the same reason some people believe the "whine" in the macbooks occur. it has to do with apples use of Intel's mobile cpu speedstepping funcionality.


in order to save battery life the computer will not allow full CPU usage until truly needed. so as you can see when xbench runs, the cpu is oppened up.

its time to tell apple we need the option for max cpu turn on

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