I don't understand why they test cubase/nuendo with G5. Cubase/Nuendo is not even near as well optimized for G5 as the logic is.
I made a simple Cubase SX2 performance test earlier when I still used Cubase. My Athlon64 3200+ machine could run 25 of similar test tracks. My friend's G5 DP1.8 & SX2 could run 34 of those tracks without clicks and pops. So the mac result was 36% better than the pc result in cubase.
In logic 5.5.1 & 3200+ a64 I got 72 platinum verbs. My new g5 dp1.8 however can run twise the amount, 144 platinum verbs. So the mac can run 100% more plugins compared to the exactly same pc-machine which I ran the cubase-test with. See?
I know that apple uses some stupid comparisons between machines and some softwares as do all the other companies too but this carillon's test was a very stupid one because it doesn't give you any idea how powerful the G5 really is. It just tells you how fast a certain program can run.
I mean that it was not very wise of carillon to put a G5 to the same test with pc computers when running cubase as a test program, because it's all up to steinberg why it runs so slowly on mac. The results would have been upside down if they tested with logic audio (logic 5.5.1 @ pc & logic 6 or logic 7 @ mac).
In fact logic pro 7 flies @ DP1.8 G5. I can load a huge amount of plugins and the cpu meters don't even move very much. And I have also noticed that once the cpu bars have rised to a certain height they may stay at that position even I load many other plugins too. I can say that this is the first time I don't have to worry about overriding my computer's calculation power. I haven't reached the 50% cpu performance yet altough I have tried.
Also I wouldn't have even bought a mac if I wanted to run cubase. I just wanted to switch to logic because it offers so much more bang for the buck than cubase does.
I just had to say something cause I saw the carillon test setup.
