Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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WATCHING THIS VIDEO IN 1440p / 4K QUALITY IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Welcome to my first special self-comparison, which was very fun to make!!
This Comparison includes all of my PCs, except my Celeron 420, Genuine T2130 and i7-2600K, which really sadly couldn't participate in this.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Main Comparison
26:18 - Results/Ranklist

This Comparison compares, how different CPUs do on playing this MIDI. Note, that this does not compare overall CPU Performance. Piano From Above depends on Single Core performance, Cache per Core, and RAM Speed.

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The i7-3540M Run was (forcedly) done in Windows 10 22H2, which worsens PFA performance significantly on older CPUs in some MIDIs.
The Celeron J1900 Run had Pagefile Lag due to not having enough RAM, which added roughly 33 seconds of additional Lag.

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MIDI Made by: ‪@HDSQ
Original Video: youtu.be/u3QCN1qqfIo

Notes: 19,972,897
Highest Polyphony: 13,686
Highest NPS: 1,669,409

⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼| Special Thanks |⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼⎼
- @LucasMIDI (some inspiration from his 30 way Comparison)
- ‪@minecraftfanredstone (helping me render the finish time numbers to an image, because my own Vegas Pro doesn't have this option for some reason)
- ‪@Anon64B (coded the script for the ranklist bar chart showed at the end)

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#1
CPU: Intel Core i7-13700KF @3.4 - 5.4 GHz, 8C16T, (E-Cores Disabled)
GPU: GIGABYTE NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 WINDFORCE OC
RAM: 64GB (2x32) DDR5 4800MT/s
OS: Windows 11 Pro

#2 (McFan's laptop, used to render the finish time numbers to an image)
CPU: Intel Core i7-8550U @1.8 - 4.0 GHz, 4C8T
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 + NVIDIA GeForce MX150
RAM: 16GB (1x16) DDR4 2400MT/s
OS: Windows 10 Pro

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Screen Recorders: Xbox GameBar (i7-13700KF), Fraps (i7-11800H), MACROSILICON HDMI to USB Adapter Capture (all other runs)
Video Editing Software: ffmpeg, XMedia Recode, Shotcut, Vegas PRO 18.0
Audio Editing Software: FL Studio 20.7.2


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Intel Core i7-13700KF @3.4 - 5.4 GHz (@5.4)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
32GB DDR5 4800
Windows 10 Pro 22H2

Intel Core i7-11800H @2.3 - 4.6 GHz (@4.2)
Intel UHD Graphics (@1.45 GHz)
32GB DDR4 2666
Windows 11 Pro 23H2

Intel Core i7-11700 @2.5 - 4.9 GHz (@4.8)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
32GB DDR4 2666
Windows 10 Pro 22H2

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H @3.3 - 4.4 GHz (@4.3)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
16GB DDR4 3200
Windows 11 Pro 23H2

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X @3.5 - 3.7 GHz (@3.57)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
8GB DDR4 2400
Windows 10 Pro 22H2

Intel Core i7-3540M @3.0 - 3.7 GHz (@3.48)
Intel HD Graphics 4000
8GB DDR3 1600
Windows 10 Pro 22H2

Intel Core i5-2520M @2.5 - 3.2 GHz (@3.1)
Intel HD Graphics 3000
8GB DDR3 1333
Windows 7 Pro

Intel Core i5-2430M @2.4 - 3.0 GHz (@2.8)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M
6GB DDR3 1333
Windows 7 Pro

Intel Core i3-2120 @3.3 GHz
Intel HD Graphics 2000
16GB DDR3L 1333
Windows 7 Pro

Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 @2.83 GHz
Intel Q33 Express Chipset Family
5GB DDR2 800
Windows XP Pro x64 SP2 V2003

Intel Pentium Silver N6000 @1.1 - 3.3 GHz
Intel UHD Graphics (@350 - 850 MHz)
8GB DDR4 2933
Windows 11 Home

AMD A4-6300 @3.7 - 3.9 GHz (@3.89)
AMD Radeon HD 8370D
8GB DDR3 1600
Windows 7 Pro

Intel Celeron J1900 @2.0 - 2.42 GHz
Intel HD Graphics (Atom Z3700 Series)
4GB DDR3L 1333
Transcend TSITHSD610-032G 32GB SATA SSD
Windows 7 Pro

AMD E2-6110 @1.5 GHz
AMD Radeon R2 Graphics
16GB DDR3L 1333
Windows 8.1

AMD E1-1200 @1.4 GHz
AMD Radeon HD 7310
8GB DDR3 1066
Windows 8.1