Greetings to the community. Any idea on how many tracks and how many PLUGINS can be run with the Ryzen 9 9950x if you have 32 GB of RAM? I know that some plugins have more latency then others. But, in general how many audio plugins and tracks can be used with the Ryzen 9 9950x? I use Cubase Pro 13 for mixing. Thanks in advance.

 

https://www.scanproaudio.info/2024/...-round-up-intel-ultra-series-and-amd-9800x3d/

^ Benchmarks.

Conclusion's up to you and your needs. For my workflow, I'm limited by what's on my master bus. In other words, my tracks are always waiting on the master bus to finish. I'd need more single core performance before I could start taking advantage of additional cores.

 

Indeed, these numbers are theoretical as it doesn't take into account real world usage as signal chains and routing can highly skew whether your workload is more parallel (able to be spread over more cores) or serial (more reliant on single core performance).

 

Welcome to the forum. Enjoy your stay.
On 7950X with 64gb ram, Cubase 14 @24bit/96khz, test done only using nvme ssds, i counted 300 audio tracks with 300 Waves SSL EV2 (channel strip plug) at about 65-70% cpu load. There's some people here with a 7950X to give you more details, not one that i know of with a 9950X. The latter Zen5 cpu might pull ahead like 5% but not more. The just launched 9950X3D on the other hand, will definitely have a performance uplift on VIs, mainly Kontakt and other sample based instruments, but not one on track and fx count. With one exception being convolution plugs (ie. Acustica ones) which also benefit from the X3D V-Cache architecture since technically they are sample based too. Seeing that AMD's X3D cpu launch this time is not plagued with lackluster software, is a great relief for anyone wanting to go high end and the price launch at 699$ is most welcome.
Cheers

 

The 9950X is incredibly fast for any kind of productive work. It will virtually never be the bottleneck in audio, no matter how many plugs, channels and other things you throw at it. A fast SSD, efficiently coded plugs and other S/W and you're going to be fine whatever you do.
I have a 7950X (w 64GB RAM and several SSDs) and that is also super fast. I run lots of stuff - s/w synths, fx, automation, loads of audio loops, 40 channels, real time mastering etc and my cpu is almost asleep.

 

I'd guess it can run about 9950 plugins, depending on the plugins, of course. It can surely run that amount of Waves Renaissance Compressors.

edit: what I find really astonishing about these new DAWBench results is the low performance difference between different ASIO buffer sizes. 512 sample ASIO buffer @96kHz is only about 13-14% more efficient than 64 sample (1-2ms!) ASIO buffer! 128 (2-3ms) and 256 (5-6ms) still being the optimal choice, but this is crazy good.

oh, but Kontakt polyphony test is a different story and ASIO buffer still matters a great deal... and this is a real world test which matters the most.

p.s Intel i7-14700K seems like a really great deal for about 400 euro since all same and lower performing AMDs cost more... this saddens me a bit, but it's the truth. Generally slower AMD 7700X or 9700X (same or lower price than 7700X now) based computer (+Asus Prime TUF Plus mbo, 2x16GB Kingston Fury DDR5 RAM) currently costs only around 40 euro less than Intel 14700K based computer.

 

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Hey 'sup mate? I hope all fine. You are right, actually the two have switched sides and Intel is the more budget friendly company now. But honestly speaking i wouldn't risk going for Intel 14th or even 13th gen and i don't care what their owners say. These cpus are the culprit of Intel's biggest disaster ever that is still going with seemingly no end between class act lawsuits and angry customers & ex-employees etc etc. Add to this that Intel since 12th gen uses an uneven big/small core architecture for their cpus which isn't supported universally by all DAWs, you may be left with a bunch of efficiency cores that will sit idle for ever when making music in your fav daw. I do dig their single core performance but apart from that, if Intel was a choice i 'd go for the new Ultra series (TSMC made feels a bit more safe atm) given that the architecture is supported by the DAW at hand.
Cheers

 

That's a beast of a processor. It'll more than serve your needs. I'd maybe go 2 x 32GB RAM.