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Not to come out over-defensive, but your base configuration (I guess?) doesn't include a GPU, I bet your caches are significantly smaller, and also no ECC ram.
by JBorrow 7y ago
Not to come out over-defensive, but your base configuration (I guess?) doesn't include a GPU, I bet your caches are significantly smaller, and also no ECC ram. I also bet your storage is considerably slower.
- liquidify 7y agoECC ram can actually be a negative in certain use cases. Recording studios don't like the extra latency the ECC adds for MIDI for example.
- spamizbad 7y agoECC does not add latency and MIDI isn’t even sensitive to additional clock cycles in buffered memory (we are talking Nanoseconds here)
- copperx 7y agoAudioland is a magic place where even different brands of hard drives can "affect the sound quality." I'm not even a bit surprised by these outlandish claims of ECC RAM latency affecting MIDI timing.
- justinclift 7y agoSources?
- noir_lord 7y agoNo that price included a RTX2080 which is a pretty decent card and better than the base config in the new Mac Pro. Platform supports ECC all Ryzens do, though it’s on the board vendors to support it officially. Cache size no idea, will not that the new 3900X would obliterate the sky lake Xeon (12 cores vs 8 and comparable or better IPC) on in the Mac Pro base confit, it’s an 8 core older architecture against AMD’s new best consumer processor and its 499 vs intels neatest equiv at 1100, it’s not even remotely close at the moment.
- JBorrow 7y agoMy point was that ECC ram is twice as expensive. Cache is super expensive (your consumer chip will have significantly less), so are PCI lanes (again, consumer chips have significantly fewer of these), and also your Ryzen chip doesn't have AVX-512 support which is important for e.g. video work.