DAWbench 2025
Behind the Scenes Update !
Apologies for being on radio silence around here of late, I haven’t forgotten the Cross Platform DAW Performance History / CPU Architecture War articles. Time and energy focus has been directed away from writing at the moment , but they are in the works.
Lots of work being done behind the scenes with both WoA and x86/AS development and testing, DAWbench DSP has been ported to 5 DAW's, with the BETA's in heavy rotation particularly in the WoA testing which I will report on shortly.
Pete from Scan has been in the front line doing some heavy lifting, also now including official Apple M4 in the results, only the baseline for now, but at least gives us a glimpse.
DAWbench VI has been shifted to K8 Player and Freeware libraries for easier access to testers, initially due to what we thought was the original K6 version falling over on AS. The results didn't move the needle that much if at all on K8, but details can be read in Pete's report.
https://www.scanproaudio.info/2025/08/05/dawbench-testing-2025-edition/
Stay tune, lots incoming over the next few months.