My first G5 Xperience:

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:59 pm

We got our first G5 earlier this week, the 1.6 GHz model.
First thing to do was offcourse to check for myself if Apple had been too "optimistic" with their perfomance figures ? It doesn't seem too bad:
I was able to run 48 stereo PlatinumVerbs in Logic, same as on my 2.6 GHz Pentium 4.
And it stayed very quiet even with almost 100% cpu-load for +30 min.

The dual 2 GHz G5 with it's 1 GHz FSB should be a great Logic box, yes ? (And you're gonna need it with their new conv.reverb!)

To bad there's no Creamware cards for the G5. (yet.)

Kim.

Post by **hubird** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:13 am

with the new G5 supermachine it's like you maried the most beautifull woman of the world and then you find that she's lesbian.
grrrr!

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:24 am

In our case: a shemale

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 7:59 am

Kim, sorry to be a pain, but can you do a Spectral Gate test as well? It's a purer test of DSP power (Platinumverbs are dependent on memory bandwidth too).

peace

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 6:38 pm

I'll do the SpectralTest on the G5 monday if I get the time.
Meantime I redid the tests on my P4, booted in my MusicSetup instead of dev/test:
53 PlatinumVerbs
52 SpectralGates !!!

Kim.

w_ellis · Post by **w_ellis** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:30 am

Interesting that Apple's audio test is Cubase vs. Logic and that they don't mention what plugins they are using...
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

I guess if you're going to do the test again, it might be worth doing the one they suggest here:
http://www.digitalnaturalsound.com/logi ... lap5.shtml

I imagine they'd appreciate some G5 data.

Cheers,
Will

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kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:49 am

G5 1.6:

PlatinumVerb: 51
SpectralGate: 31 !?

Seems like SpectralGate is not exactly optimized for the G5 yet. (It is for Pentium4.)

Kim.

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firubbi · Post by **firubbi** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:01 am

On 2003-09-14 08:13, hubird wrote:
with the new G5 supermachine it's like you maried the most beautifull woman of the world and then you find that she's lesbian.
grrrr!

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 12:05 pm

kimgr, what's the error message you get then?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:58 pm

"CPU overload"

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 2:52 pm

"CPU overlord"

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 6:03 pm

thought you'd get "no, adding a 54th reverb won't make your song better anyways"

seriously though it's good news that you didn't get an asio overload... the asio 2 driver performs well, good for you steinberg