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Apple’s Lack of nVidia worrying?
Hi all,
Sorry for another Apple related post but this is of great relevance to the DaVinci OS X product.
Apple have officially dropped the GT 120 as the standard Mac Pro GPU and now that the GTX 285 is technically EOL that means only the Quadro is basically the only nVidia card available. I say this as I can’t see who would downgrade a 5770 to a GT120.
I think that nVidia are being dropped by Apple.
This could be due to nVidia’s chipset licensing issue with Intel or it could simply be that they aren’t getting the right deal from them, I don’t know, but this must be a worrying trend for the upcoming DaVinci OS X.
Having seen the software in action I’m literally chomping at the bit to get my hands on it. I am slightly fearful they’ve EOL’d nVidia for good.
It limits Adobe’s direct competitiveness with Premiere and it would certainly limit DaVinci’s.
I’m getting very frustrated with Apple in general of late. I need the tools I work with daily improved, I’d love Color if the tracker improved, ingest improved and there was realtime playback. Faster background rendering would be fly too but that’s for another day. I love freelancing out of house on Baselights and Film Masters. I never have to think about getting a project in or out the systems!
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Well it looks like resolve will need to re-evaluate the ways new macpros will come configured.
For those with older 2008 or people wanting the newer 12 core machines looks like the only option is a 2009 nahelem
It looks like a hackintosh might be the way to go
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It’s starting to look like porting Resolve to mac is an up hill battle..
How is Windows 7 looking these days?
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Well…it may be an equally uphill battle, or perhaps even a steeper hill to climb, to port Resolve to Windows since it’s probably a major rewrite. It will be a little challenging over the next few months.
-chrispy
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I saw this video from Siggraph where an Nvidia rep explains the new Quadro 4000 coming to the Mac in October which has 2x performance over Quadro 4800.
Here is a link, it\’s towards the end of the video.
https://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep087.m4vPatrick Woodard
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[Patrick Woodard] “new Quadro 4000 coming to the Mac in October”
Looks good on paper, but even if nVidia does release a Mac version in about two months or so, does that translate to Christmas 2010 before anyone has enough confidence in it to recommend it as supported hardware for their application… plus whatever the GUI GPU might be by then (in the case of BM Resolve)?
I’ve been “worked over” by Apple too many times to have anything but growing concern.
Good thing I’m in no rush — no one in my market seems to be interested, as long as the product I’m supplying meets their criteria.jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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