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Any thoughts about the AMD Ryzen CPU's ?
They seem OK
Passmark looks good for the 4 core Ryzen 3 - 1200 about 7000 pts
Q for Hans
Is stereotool fully optimized for intel ?
Is ST tested on Ryzen ?
Kind regards
Marthijn
Old question but we finally just bought a new Ryzen 5 2600 to run some tests. To my big surprise, with exactly the same settings the Ryzen actually shows a (very) slightly lower CPU usage than my Intel i7-6700K (4 GHz), for the cores that it uses. And it has 2 cores more
(it has 6 instead of the 4 of my 6700K). Based on the numbers on cpubenchmark I would have expected the opposite.
I have often received complaints in the past that Stereo Tool didn't run very well (high CPU load) on older AMD's, but these new Ryzens look great. And they are way cheaper than the Intels. In fact, the whole computer that we bought for testing was under 400 euro. (Motherboard 50 euro, CPU 160, add an SSD and some memory and you're done - well except for the sound card).
WARNING: These 6-core AMD's do NOT have a video chip on board. The 4-cores that I looked at (for the same price) do. So you can't connect a monitor to the pc. (Unless you add a video card)
(O. And there's no need for 6 cores any time soon. 1 suffices for 100% quality, for 150% you probably need 2 if you're using a full FM preset with composite clipping with Stokkemask).