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Will Resolve work on the New Macbook Pro?
Hi All,
I’m just about to buy a 17″ MacBook Pro and it would be very useful to have Resolve on it. I’m assuming without the NVidia/Cuda card Resolve will be a ‘no go’ on the new AMD Radeon macbook model. Are there any indications from BlackMagic that they will support the AMD card in the new MBP? Before I actually spend the money I’d really appreciate if anyone here could give me the benefit of their wisdom.
Cheers
Hugh
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6 Replies
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My impression of the Macbook implementation is that it is intended to be a technology demonstrator, and field-grade preview -quickie/dailies director/dP utility. You do need some very specific configurations (memory is a biggie) to even get the application to stay running with media, and until Blackmagic actually approves/qualifies/recommends a hardware configuration (which would then be the law), its not anything that I would assume to be hunky-dory okey-dokey. And you still might only wind up with something that just barely works.
Resolve is not an Apple ProApp, just like Final Touch wasn’t, either. The activity that I do see, the slight move toward ATI (approving the 5770) for User Interface, is interesting. Actually, wait a month or so, which is what I’m doing. Right now is no time to jump into anything.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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As long as ATI does not implement CUDA, I dont think it will work ever.
Get an old one for Resolve on set.
But dont expect it to me great..32 CUDA cores in the old one.
But I have high hopes for the thunderbolt port now.
We just need a smaller one-card-solution case from Cubix or someone else and then you are all set.
It just depends if you can milk money out of a project NOW.
If so, get the old one, if not, sit tight.A slice of color…
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Great advice guys. I’m going to sit tight and see how it plays out – interesting times!
Thanks again.
Hugh
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https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=240255 isn’t this one better?
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Performance, yes ! Reliability ? OMG !
A slice of color…
DaVinci 7.1 OSX 10.6.6
Dual Xeon 2,4 RAM 24 GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 285 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE -
cuda is part of openCL all of cuda. So its a matter of Resolve supporting OPEN CL. I believe it more a matter of ATI drivers not really supporting open CL very well even though they where a big part of the design.
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