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Originally Posted by Juho L
So it's ok to run the test on a software that haven't been updated for PC well over a year? Hoho.
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At least it would be more fair comparison than the cubase test because the platinum verb plugin hasn't changed from logic5 -> logic7 and the logic5.5.1 @ pc is very light to run too. Logic7 only has been coded to run on G5. The plugin itself is the same. Also using cubase's audio engine @ mac when testing third party plugins is not optimal.
And in my case it was 100% fair comparison, because I was about to continue working with logic 5.5.1 @ pc instead of cubase but I still wanted to upgrade to logic7.
Well it doesn't really matter what plugins you use. I have tested some third party plugins aswell and they are very light to run, partly because the plugins run thru the logic's well optimized audio engine. In fact there are 2 cpu bars in logic and compared to my athlon 3200+, each bar moves similarly as the cpu bar in cubase with the athlon pc. The only difference is that there are 2 of those cpu bars now which you can run full.
There's not very much difference between an amd opteron and Apple/IBM G5 processors. A dual opteron system is also a very powerful machine and comparable to a G5 dual computer.
At least these tests show that if you want to use cubase, you buy a pc and if it's logic, then you buy a mac, of course, because there are no more updates for logic pc version.
I will try Crystal with both machines now and compare....
Edit: Ok, I tested 1 instance of Crystal synth and in SX2.2 it took about 10% of 3200+ a64. Similarly, 1 instance in logic pro 7 took about 10% of one G5 1.8GHz. The other processor showed 0%. I don't have time now to test both machines with the maximum load but I think it doesn't change much from this result.