LIVE FIVE PERFORMANCE TEST - results here

Musozo · Post by **Musozo** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:59 pm

I think there is more pontential in these MacBooks, because xbench doesn't always use the full CPU perfomance (mostly just a part of it, watch top).
Therfore the results could be better if a process would need more cpu performance.
Any ideas which utility would be more appropriate?

jamief · Post by **jamief** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:14 pm

i have just received a Dell duo core 2.16 9400. will post test results next week.
I,m expecting 12-15 %. Maybe overoptimistic

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.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:23 pm

jamief wrote:i have just received a Dell duo core 2.16 9400. will post test results next week.
I,m expecting 12-15 %. Maybe overoptimistic

you are overoptimistic, you wont get that sort of figure until 6 comes out with dual core support

treysmith · Post by **treysmith** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:59 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)

31%

2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model

Desktop Gateway

3) Operating System

XP Media Center

4) CPU Make Model and Speed

Dual Athlong 4200+

5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)

2GB

6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)

Tascam FW-1884

7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)

7200

Freekster · Post by **Freekster** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:34 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 28%-40% (41% Peak without xbench, with xbench 31%)
2) Apple MacBook Pro
3) OS X 10.4.6
4) 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo
5) 1.5 GB DDR2 SDRAM
6) Internal soundcard
7) 5400 rpm

Running XBench on background lowers the meter by 10%

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1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 64%-70% (71% Peak, with Maudio FW410 81%)
2) Apple Powerbook
3) OS X 10.4.6
4) 1.33ghz PowerPC G4
5) 1 GB DDR SDRA
6) Internal soundcard (maudio FW410)
7) 5400 rpm

MAudio FW410 soundcard slows live down 10%

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1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 38%-41%
2) PC
3) WinXP Pro SP2
4) 2.8ghz P4
5) 2 GB DDR SDRAM
6) ESI
7) 7200 rpm

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Damn Macbook beats my pc

jamesp · Post by **jamesp** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:16 pm

1) Ableton CPU Meter (see below)
2) Homemade Desktop
3) Windows XP SP2
4) AMD 64 3700+ 2.2 GHz
5) 1 GB PC3500 DDR
6) Realtek AC97 soundcard
7) Maxtor 7200 rpm

Using the onboard soundcard: 33%
With a Presonus Inspire: 31%
With the M-Audio Black Box: 31%

edited to reflect better numbers after re-reading the directions... my doh.

bencodec · Post by **bencodec** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:31 pm

OK, heres the spec on the macbook using XP...

1) 25 %
2) 2 Ghz Macbook Pro
3) Windows XP with service pack 2
4) 2 Ghz intel core duo
5)2 GB
6) Stock soundcard
7) 5400rpm

Musozo · Post by **Musozo** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:19 pm

bencodec wrote:OK, heres the spec on the macbook using XP...

1) 25 %
2) 2 Ghz Macbook Pro
3) Windows XP with service pack 2
4) 2 Ghz intel core duo
5)2 GB
6) Stock soundcard
7) 5400rpm

I know this question doesn't fit to this topic, but I was woundering if you have the whine during using XP on MBP, too?

Thanks!

friendofphi · Post by **friendofphi** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:51 pm

1) 39-43
2) Desktop/Dell Optiplex GX270
3) XP
4) Pentium4 2.4
5) 1 Gig
6) Stock SoundMax Digital Audio
7) 7200

friendofphi · Post by **friendofphi** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:38 pm

1) 27-29
2) Laptop Acer 5672
3) XP Home
4) Intel Duo T2300 @ 2 x 1.66
5) 1 gb - 667 Mhz
6) Stock - Realtek HD Audio
7) sata 5400

This is running on 5.03, can I really expect better performance?

kenn michael · Post by **kenn michael** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:02 am

friendofphi wrote:1) 27-29
2) Laptop Acer 5672
3) XP Home
4) Intel Duo T2300 @ 2 x 1.66
5) 1 gb - 667 Mhz
6) Stock - Realtek HD Audio
7) sata 5400

This is running on 5.03, can I really expect better performance?

not until version 6...

but these are the same results I got for a Core Duo mac mini running in OSX and in Windows XP... so it seems that that since the hardware (CPU) is at parity now between Macs and PCs (unless you're running AMD), the performance is the same.

djdody89 · Post by **djdody89** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:39 am

1)26-28
2)desktop
3)xp-profesional
4)amd 64 3500+
5)1 gb
6)creative(not stock)
7)sata 7200

running 5.03

Musozo · Post by **Musozo** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:35 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter: 30%-33% (native - 1.8 Ghz), 21%-23% (overclocked - 2.56 Ghz)
2) customized PC
3) WinXP SP2
4) AMD 64 3000+ (windchester)
5) 1 GB Corsair DDR550
6) Maya44 MKII
7) UDMA 133

warpus · Post by **warpus** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:46 am

Just tried the Live Performance test on the MacBook Pro with OS X running Live 5.2 on a Windows XP virtual machine via Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta3. Pretty good results considering I have two OS's running at the same time.

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % 26%-30% (32% Peak)
2) Apple MacBook Pro
3) Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine under OS X 10.4.6
4) 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
5) 2 GGB DDR2 SDRA
6) Internal Audio
7) 7200 rpm

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:03 am

wow the workstation is really impressive.

LIVE FIVE PERFORMANCE TEST - results here

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