Live5 vs Live4 perf test

jayc · Post by **jayc** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:48 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 30%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model : custom desktop moth ASUSa7v8x-x
3) Operating System: xp sp1
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: AMD Athlon 2500+ 1.8 gHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 512 MB ddr400
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) lexicon omega ASIO driver
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): Seagate 7200 / 80 GB

zekrab · Post by **zekrab** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:57 am

28%
dell inspiron 9100
XP SP2
P4 3.2Ghz
512Mo
Echoindigo dj
7200 Rpm

krikor · Post by **krikor** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:44 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 62% peaks at 68% 65% peaks at 70%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model : Laptop PB titanium
3) Operating System: OS 10.3.9
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: G4 1ghtz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 1g
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) internal
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): origine 4200rpm 60g

in red is the test on live 4.1.4

krikor · Post by **krikor** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 10:44 am

oops double post

Polyphonic · Post by **Polyphonic** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:36 am

I'm quite concerned about my results. I'm not running anything in the background (antivirus, firewall etc) so not sure why it should be this high.

) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 55%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model : custombuilt PC
3) Operating System: xp sp2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: AMD64 2800
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 1024 MB ddr400
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) Terratec DMX6Fire PCI with buffer set to 256samples
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA133

Spectre /Aural Motives · Post by **Spectre /Aural Motives** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:39 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 19%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model : Self-made desktop
3) Operating System: xp64
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4 gHz (754 Socket)
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 1024 MB DDR400
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) M-Audio Audiophile 192
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): Seagate 7200 / 80 GB SATA

Shuzhen · Post by **Shuzhen** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 1:35 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 21% (peaks, 19% at lowest)
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M4438
3) Operating System: Windows XP Home with SP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: Intel Pentium-M Centrino (Alviso/Sonoma) 1.89GHz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 512MB SO-DIMM 533MHz PC4200
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?): Stock Realtek HD Audio
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): 2x60GB 5400rpm in SATA RAID

Before I set the power managment to Always On (i.e. turning off SpeedStep), it went jumping erratically between 20 and 40%.

This machine's fan is audible, but it's consistent and kind of muffled, so not really all that bothersome. It does generate too much heat to have it on your lap comfortably.

It does have a nVidia Go6800 PCI-E GPU in it, but other than noise and heat, it doesn't seem to affect performance.

adhmzaiusz · Post by **adhmzaiusz** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:34 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %: 50-54%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model : pb 1.33
3) Operating System: panther
4) CPU Make Model and Speed: 1.33gh
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know): 768mb
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) motu traveler
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know): 5400rpm

i get sketchy mouse behaviour in L5...even at that cpu% it never happened in 4
*edit* but not now after trashing prefs

DJRetard · Post by **DJRetard** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:55 pm

I havent done the test yet

Just wanted to say I think this should be split in to Mac and PC on seperate threads. I also think a slightly different tests rather than the same one with ver4 as there are some pretty major differences in ver5.

Just a suggestion.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:07 pm

peedro,

hey. please if you could rename this thread. i'm currently formulating a new .als for the Live 5 performance test.

like the Live 4 performance test, the purpose is to compare machines to each other, not versions to each other. The Live 4 test added the new instruments that came with Live 4, and the .als i am formulating for the Live 5 Performance Test will add the new audio and midi devices, combined with Complex warping, and other cpu dependent features that have been added to the latest version etc. etc.

so please, if you could rename this thread to something like "live 4 test in live 5", as its not really a Live 5 Test, i would appreciate it.

and then i will start the new test and subsequent Live 5 Performance Test thread soon.

thanks.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:29 am

ok, i've renamed the thread, you can go ahead with your new test adam, i hope i didn't upset you.

anyway, i think it's interesting (at least it was for me), to compare Live4 and Live5, so if ppl do this test, they are still welcome to post their results.

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:01 pm

Same like ver.4 but the "D" is blinking all the time ???????

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:20 pm

rikhyray wrote:Same like ver.4 but the "D" is blinking all the time ???????

Thats a problem with the last part of a sample not being loaded into ram.
Most of the times. You will hear no difference.
But Ableton has been notified of this issue and are looking into it i think.

Cheers

ernene · Post by **ernene** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:15 pm

Live 4: 65%-71%
Live 5: 63%-68%

Powerbook G4 1Gh
Ram: 1 Gb
Os: Tiger (10.4.2)
Audio Int.: M-audio FW 410
Ext HDD: LaCie D2 7200 - But I did not use it for this test.-

Waitting for the new one AJ, despite we already know the differences between computers, systems and so on...

Anyway, quite happy with this slighty improve on Live's permormance, at least on my computer...

Cheers ç:-)

stuffe · Post by **stuffe** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:27 pm

Would it be worth doing a poll along the lines of

> 20% worse
> 10% worse
> 5% worse
0-5% worse
0-5% better
>5% better
etc etc

Just reading all the posts makes you lose track.