• Avid Media Composer

  Does AVID MC use more than one core?

  Posted by Rainer Bergomaz on September 12, 2009 at 9:15 am

  We have done some test with MC 3.5 on several Windows workstations. Rendering scenes, effects or generating QT files.

  – One older workstation with two Intel Xeon 1 GHz,. Windows XP, 32 Bit

  – One workstation with two Pentium single core 2,3 GHz ,Windows XP, 32 Bit

  – One workstation with an Intel Core I7 with 2,7 GHz, four cores, 12 GByte RAM and Windows Vista 64 Bit

  The only speed increase we measured depended on the clock rate of the processor.

  Has any one done the same before?

  So why is AVID forcing us to multiple core workstation if they don’t use the cores?

  Charles

  Ed Cilley replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

• 

  Ed Cilley

  September 16, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  We haven’t done any tests like this. There are a lot of variables to take into account. There is some discussion about the differences between multicore and threading, but I haven’t heard any conclusion.

  With the new HP machines, Avid says to turn off hyperthreading on the Z800, but to leave it on with the Z400. I guess the difference in the dual processor vs a single processor (with multiple cores).

  Ed

  _________________________________________________
  Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  – Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up