mnailor wrote:I'd say you can load Groningen (85 GB), and it should run okay on either of those processors using historically informed registrations.
At about 3400 Thread Mark and 25000 CPU Mark, you may have to set polyphony lower than 8000 voices, which SP recommends for that sampleset, to use HW 7 highest audio quality at 96k and/or a low latency buffer size. Just something to be aware of. You'd need to test and set the polyphony limit appropriately for the CPU.
That should only be a problem if you couple all the plenums together or try to draw a modern full organ -- things the organ probably wasn't built to handle gracefully anyway. If you need to do that (as a wind sag experiment for a documentary on herd animal noises), you could always drop one of the 4 mic perspectives temporarily by routing ranks to nowhere.
I don't have Groningen, so maybe somebody who does can give a better idea how it works on their CPU model.
In the last days, I received contradictory information about the compatibility of the 48/96GB memory modules with that Mini PC based on the AMD Ryzen 7735HS CPU, or even with the CPU itself, so I postponed the acquisition a little. It is not known for sure that compatibility already exists, or if it depends on a BIOS update or, if it will never exist at all. Meanwhile, information came about an imminent launch of Mini PCs based on the new Ryzen 7840HS/7940HS, which, in addition to being 10 to 20% faster than the previous 7735HS, have a greater chance of already being compatible (or acquiring the desired compatibility in the near future) with such non-binary memories. Anyway, someone did the that yesterday, bought the 96 GB kit and installed them on a NUC based on a Intel 13th gen i5 mobile CPU. It worked!
https://williamlam.com/2023/05/96gb-sod ... -esxi.htmlTrying, therefore, to avoid a disappointment with those purchases, I decided to look for a NUC/MiniPC with both 13th gen Intel CPU and DDR5 support, and I found a model, manufactured by chinese Minisforum, named NPB7:
https://store.minisforum.com/collection ... 0152211701Comparing the performance scores of these three CPUs, the i7-13700H ties with one of them and loses to the other by a small percentage of 3%:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/52 ... -i7-13700HAssuming these scores might be reliable, one thing intrigues me. The Intel CPU has 14 cores and 20 threads: 6 "performance" cores at 2.4 GHz and 8 "efficiency" ones at 1.8 GHz, with respective turbo clocks of 5.0 and 3.7 GHz. Minimum, typical and maximum TDPs are 35, 45 and 115 W, respectively. As for the AMD Ryzen 7840HS, it has 8 (equal) cores and 16 threads. However, the base clock is 3.8 GHz (4.0 GHz on the 7940HS), much higher than Intel's, with the turbo reaching 5.1 GHz (5.2 GHz on the 7940HS). Minimum and typical TDP of 35 and 54 W respectively.
All three CPUs are between 29600 and 30600 CPU Mark. However, Ryzen's single thread ratings are about 10% higher, in contrast with the total number of cores of Intel's CPU, which is 75% higher.
So, the golden question: which of these CPUs would tend to provide the highest overall performance for Hauptwerk?