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I spent the weekend doing further research.
Unfortunately i was not able to find much related to DAW usage when it comes to current Intel Xeon and Threadripper Pro 7000 Series CPUs.
The only thing i really found is this DAWBench comparison of an Intel Core i9 13900k vs. Intel Xeon w7-2495X:
https://www.scanproaudio.info/2023/04/05/4883/
The results surprised me. This particular Xeon has a base clock speed 500mhz LOWER than the 13900k and the single thread rating (cpubenchmark.net) of the xeon is also 1000 points (!) LOWER then the 13900k.
Despite this the Xeon performed just as well and even better in the DAWBench DSP and VI test linked above.
As you can see from another benchmark also performed by scanproaudio.info:
https://www.scanproaudio.info/2024/1...d-amd-9800x3d/
Even the i9 14900k which has a slightly higher clock speed and single thread rating compared to the 13900k also cannot outperform the Intel Xeon w7-2495X!
The Intel Xeon w7-2495X only has a base clock speed of 2.5ghz.
This makes me wonder if the base clock speed even matters at all? (Especially on processors like the Intel Xeon w9-3495X or w7-3565X)
Again when it comes to DAW usage i'm producing dance music with tons of VSTs and looking for 64/128 samples buffersize without dropouts.
The Xeon has more memory channels. That doesn't matter much if you have normal loads, but running full tilt with different tracks it starts to matter.