4 x Stereo Tracks of Audio Content
1 x Stereo Track - Monitor
40 x Stereo Tracks of Sine Waves
320 x Multiband Compressors - 8 per Sine Wave track inactive - to be turned on one at a time until session is overloaded.
Plugins used:
ReaFX ReaXComp ( Freeware ) WaveArts MD5 ( 30 Day Trial )
This Benchmark is a combination of Low Latency, High Track Count, and Extreme DSP Loadings.
Heavily dependant on CPU, Memory and ASIO Efficiency
Native Versions for Nuendo/Cubase 6 , SONAR 8.5 , Reaper 3 and More.
The test session can be easily configured in any DAW application.
Tests were done using XP Pro on the older systems, Win7 on newer. and RME Madiface was used as an interface. Tests are from Dawbench.com
Quick Look @ 32 buffer:
AMD 965 57
i5 750 104
i7 920 HT ON 130
Dual Xeon 5550 HT ON 172
980X (stock) 201
980X @ 4GHz 270
[email protected] 261
3960X @3.33GHz (stock) 253
3960X @ 4.5GHz 353
3820 @ 3.6GHz (stock) 252
Xeon E5 2670 @ 2.6GHz 322 (stock and a single)