Ableton Addict 3.11

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Mainly this is intended for the erver market, but we Ableton users like to get the most power we can so we can do crazy things in our live sets that might not even be musically tasteful. However, if we can push processors to outdo current digital audio workstation that gives the developers more breathing room to design better signal processing, better sequencing, etc.



In this article, Intel claims that there is a 50% boost in overall performance. They used a server load of a financial institution running online transactions for this benchmark to get these numbers. I would ike to see how this processor handles itself with video editing and music sequencing.

Spec wise this series of chips are using a 16MB level 3 cache. If you compare this to their consume grade Q6600 processors those only use a 4MB level 2 cache. So on a cache level alone this thing blows out many of the consumer grade CPUs. Even Mac Pro Xeon chip is running a 12MB Level 2 cache. The level 3 cache is definitely going to be pushing the envelope of this chip and hopefully they implement this chip in many more consumer grade situations. I hope this also drops the price of current gen quad core chips for not only the business server level but for the consumer like ourselves. The chis also claim to use 10% less power than the previous generation of Xeon chip. Intel han't released how the power saving effort happned, but I am sure it's from the spacing of he chips contacts to help with the heat sink. Less heat on the CPU will always give better performance.

So if you have enough cash to burn to build a new Ableton computer these generation of Xeon chips will go for 856 as a quad core and 2729 as a six core. Take one for the team and give us users some benchmarks.