Doesn’t the article indicate the difference had to do with utilization of e-cores? Since the newer Apple silicon has more e-cores and fewer p-cores?
Comment on Apple M1 Pro beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools
jabbr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My guess is this has to do with core stability. Dropouts occur more easily on the newer chips because the cores behave more erratically, even though they’re faster overall.
_Analog_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cbarrick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Dropouts occur […] all the cores behave more erratically
What does this even mean?
Are you trying to say something about latency versus throughput?
jabbr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Imagine 2 runners racing. One can trip and fall, get up and still win. Faster but less stable. For real time signal processing you have to maintain a minimum clock or dropouts and artifacts will occur.
jabbr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It means the clock frequency varies more than M1
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The article pretty clearly states it seems to be a software issue with either the programs themselves, or the OS. Where are you getting suspicion about the processors running erratically?
jabbr@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because this was reported last time with the M2 vs M1. The major performance improvements came from increased clocks, at the expense of some core stability.
These new cpus can bounce tracks faster, but are apparently worse at real-time processing. Most DAWs can only process individual tracks on a single thread.
If you’re monitoring while using heavy plugins then you may be more prone to dropouts on the newer chips.
The different # of P and E cores plays more into the multithreaded performance