Our post audio machines are 12-core MPs, but we don't run the same plugins so I can't do an A/B comparison, otherwise I'd answer this question myself. 32) and the D700 video card instead of the D500. I currently have a 6-core trashcan but have an opportunity to get a 12-core with twice the RAM (64 vs. The new MP announcement was initially exciting but a disappointment once they got to the price and entry-level components, but I'd like a quicker computer, and the iMac isn't practical. I don't actually need that much power for my Pro Tools use, but it's handy for other stuff I do. but for most real world workloads, specially with Pro Tools 2019.5 and it's greatly improved threading and over performance I expect CPU scalability for many workloads beyond 12 cores, but again exact kilometerage will vary.Ģ019.5 has even convinced me to get an 8 core i9 MacBook Pro, partially out of curiosity if it can run well without thermally throttling to nothing. I can certainly write a multi-threaded demo program that shows lots of weird/unexpected non-scaling effects. The experience of not scaling beyond 6 cores may be with very old versions of Pro tools or pathologically non-scaling sessions/plugins. Give me a 6 plugin workload that is all single threaded plugins and it won't scale any better on 12, may run slower (threads jumping between cores (and so invalidating CPU caches), slower individual cores, smaller caches, etc.). Being 64-bit really has nothing to do with ensuring good multi-threaded performance. But the numbers always depend on workload. I sure expect 12 cores will be faster than 6. With regard to RAM, at max I'm using about 75% of what I currently have, and typically it's about 25%. According to some figures I've seen, an 8-core is 24% faster than the 6-core, and the 12-core is an additional 28% faster than the 8-core. How could it not improve performance? PT is a 64-bit app which uses all available cores.

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