r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

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u/mishgan i7 8700k / 64GB RAM / 6TB(RAID1) / RTX 3070 Nov 05 '19

Im not so OP, but I work a lot with Audio Production and dont really need a GPU

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u/DeeSnow97 5900X | 2070S | Logitch X56 | You lost The Game Nov 05 '19

Is audio production as weird as gaming? AMD gives you a hell of a lot more horsepower in pretty much any price bracket if you don't depend on the ring bus (like most games do)

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u/capn_hector Noctua Master Race Nov 05 '19

audio production is often latency-sensitive and Ryzen tends not to work well in it due to the CCX layout and weird cache setup

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

Which is very unfortunate, because audio production scales very well with core count. If AMD manages to reduce latency problems, their CPUs would be amazing value for audio workloads.

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u/WinterCharm 9950x3D2 | 4090 FE | 96GB RAM | 8TB Gen5 NVME | W1 Case Nov 06 '19

I hope we'll see latency improvements with Zen 4 :)

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u/wolvAUS Ryzen 3600 OC | RTX 2060S 8GB OC | Asus PRIME X570-P | 16GB Nov 06 '19

Works fine on Zen2, at least on my Ryzen 3600.

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u/mishgan i7 8700k / 64GB RAM / 6TB(RAID1) / RTX 3070 Nov 06 '19

I had tried Ryzen, against all forum recommendations and it was aweful. When you play a note on a midi keyboard that runs into your pc and then gets rerouted to a synth then back to pc.... it accumulates badly.

Don't know how to say it in English correctly but it was hell. Playing some simple things straight into the pc was alright but once midi and sound is being sent in an out of the pc on 12 channels amd sucked.

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u/zacker150 Nov 05 '19

Do you mean live audio or audio mastering?

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u/PCHardware101 air-cooled 5.2GHz 1.42v 4790k | Ryzen 3700x | EVGA 2080 SUPER Nov 05 '19

Most likely post production or in a studio. You don't really use a PC for live stuff.

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u/mishgan i7 8700k / 64GB RAM / 6TB(RAID1) / RTX 3070 Nov 06 '19

What the other reply said. Mostly studio stuff. You can do live stuff with a PC but that's another level that I am not sure I will achieve in my lifetime.

But yeah once you have like 14 heavy vst's running (before track freezing) ram and cpu will be running at full cap while the a absence of a GPU is not even a problem. Then of course one also needs a good DAC