I’m pretty sure I’m going to regret writing this, but one would be surprised to know that the amount of people with performance issues so far was not enough to even allow us to put together useful comparative lists of system specs.
Although we found that performance issues are more common under certain circumstances, for example and without getting too much into the details:
– Specific chipsets
– Specific GPU / video driver versions
– Plug-ins using OpenGL (Mac especially)
– Plug-ins with problematic multi-core processing
– CPU with 6 or 12 cores
– How some VSTi access memory
On the other hand, we have users with systems having all of those characteristics which have great performance. Not a very focussed target.
Please, get in touch with me, I follow many performance-related topics. PM is fine to start.
I will start another thread about test-projects ASAP. Although I can and do test on Mac at work, my personal DAW is Windows, I’ll probably ask someone using a Mac for actual production to join.