LIVE 4 PERFORMANCE TEST

dirtystudios · Post by **dirtystudios** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:37 pm

the 26 percent difference between the identical ibook and powerbook up there is pretty interesting.

k

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:39 pm

dirtystudios wrote:the 26 percent difference between the identical ibook and powerbook up there is pretty interesting.

k

i think the problem has been resolved...
presets weren't loading correctly, my mistake - i should have tested it on my girlfriend's ibook

dpel · Post by **dpel** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:16 am

1) 80%
2) Apple G4 powerbook 15
3) OS 10.3.5
4) G4 1.25
5) 31 gig
6) Stock
7) 5600 rpm

i couldn't play at 512 i needed 2024 (ish)
to play without distortion or interuptions.

LAME! although i don't use this laptop for Live.
will try on the desktop PC.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:32 am

just tested my old Desktop PC, a 3.5 year old Compaq.

1) 52%
2) Compaq Presario Desktop 5004US
3) Windows XP Home (SP1)
4) AMD Athlon 1.1ghz
5) 320MB Ram, PC100
6) Stock SoundMAX soundcard
7) 5400rpm Internal IDE HD (ATA-66)

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:40 am

1) 43%
2) Apple Aluminum Powerbook 1.5
3) OSX.3.5
4) G4 1.5Ghz
5) 1.5GB
6) Stock
7) Hitachi Travelstar 7200 RPM

ultrasource · Post by **ultrasource** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:49 am

thanks adamjay for the zip. everythings's loaded and the official range on the live meter is: 68-78 with a sharp spike to 84 after the first bar is played. on par with the other books.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:06 am

tested my girlfriend's iBook G4 with the Live 4 demo.

1) 89%
2) Apple iBook G4
3) OSX 10.3.5
4) G4 800mhz (256k L2)
5) 640MB DDR PC2100 Ram
6) Stock Core Audio*
7) 4200rpm

* - glitches @ 512 samples, none at 1024 samples.

mokomo · Post by **mokomo** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:22 am

1) 21%
2) Dell Precision M60
3) XP Pro
4) Pentium M 755 (2.00 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)
5) 1gb Ram 333MHz
6) same CPU perfrmance whether using Indigo IO or internal Sigmatel soundcard
7) 7200

(1920 x 1200 screen on Nvidia Quadro FX GO1000)

I've disabled ACPI, so am set as a Standard PC. Also set the Virtual memory to zero.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:24 am

1) 28%
2) Desktop. PC.
3) WinXP Professional with SP2 - I reformated 2 days ago, so its pretty fresh.
4) AMD Athlon 2600+ XP - 2.09GHZ
5) 1GB DDR 333mhz
6) Audiophile 24/96 PCI
7) Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM

I really am not intended to start a Mac/PC war, but its interesting to me how most of the Apple systems listed are above 50%. Is there any explaination or is it just "one of them" ???

I am supremely pleased with my desktop's performance, but I might be trading it in for a AMD Athlon 2500+ laptop. A little slower, but should still be worth it.

Not sure yet if I'm going to go through with it.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:30 am

i just asked a friend to test his Dual 1.8ghz G5... which should give us all a better gauge on Apple performance.

but i'm not really trying to start a war here either... but rather set a defined benchmark for people to use when comparing systems. Its good when you need to gauge / troubleshoot problems with your own performance. If someone with nearly the same machine as you is getting 20% better performance, that tells you you arent getting the most of your machine. And if you were about to drop a grand on a new machine because of weak performance... then this becomes a good resource for making better decisions.

and in your case, you are thinking of going down to an Athlon XP 2500, and you should still get a very healthy amount of performance with it based on some of these results.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:09 am

another friend on AIM, mike kuszynski gave me his results...
thank you mike.

1) 23% peak
2) Custom Built, with K8V Mobo
3) Windows XP Professional SP1
4) AMD Athlon 64 3200
5) 1 GB Ram, DDR PC3200
6) Hammerfall Multiface
7) 10,000 RPM Serial ATA HD

MarkH · Post by **MarkH** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:19 am

AdamJay wrote:i just asked a friend to test his Dual 1.8ghz G5... which should give us all a better gauge on Apple performance.

It's too bad Live isn't more efficient with its dual CPU support. Dedicating one CPU to graphics is ok, but such a waste of a G5 processor (or AMD, Intel, for that matter). I'm not expecting 1.8Ghz performance to show anything stellar. If we were gauging Logic on single and dual CPU machines, that would be a whole different story.

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:39 am

AdamJay wrote: and in your case, you are thinking of going down to an Athlon XP 2500, and you should still get a very healthy amount of performance with it based on some of these results.

Should do yes, but its not the usual done thing to downgrade!

the laptop is £600 from Comet (UK electronics and household retailer) and I saw it in an advert in a magazine. still toying with the idea of selling my PC setup and buying the laptop.

Usually over here laptops this cheap are shitty celeron's, but I'm thinking that I might just wait until I get to university.

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:13 am

OK here we go -

1 - Min Peak 15% - Max Peak 22%
2 - Toshiba Satellite P20 H/T (not disabled) (see specs in sig)
3- Windows XP Pro SP1 (custom DAW tweak)
4- 3.2ghz H/T P4 i865 800mhz FSB (CPU clocked at 3.19ghz exactly)
5- 1gig DDR RAM (not sure on factory ram spec here)
6- Echo Indigo DJ
7- 7200 RPM Lacie D2 FW drive

Quite happy with that I must say

kptkar · Post by **kptkar** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:01 am

1) 60%
2) Custom Desktop
3) Win XP Pro SP1
4) P3 1ghz
5) 512mb PC133
6) Echo MIA MIDI
7) 7200