• DaVinci Resolve

  Best Gpu accelerated cards for Resolve and Cubic

  Posted by Matt Louie on July 10, 2014 at 11:37 pm

  Reposting from another thread.

  I have a Mac Pro (2012 tower) with cubix attached with currently 2 Quadro 4000’s. My concern is only with coloring and transcoding in DaVinci resolve.

  My current choice of purchase is the GTX Titan Super clocked (EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN SuperClocked 6GB GDDR5). I understand the limitations of the Mac OS with 2 usable gpus and PCIe 2.0. I want the best options available before my purchase currently given the latest release of the Titan Blacks, Titan Z, etc.

  It’s my understanding the Titan Black may add slight performance but adds firmware not beneficial to Mac Users. And the titan z is nice but not for the money since I’m still PCIe 2. I’m also trying not to justify buying a new Mac Pro since my system runs fine as is so the 3k Titan z doesn’t seem worth it.

  Anyone know of super clocked titan blacks or other suggestions for the cubix on Mac platform? I’m not a fan of Amd from what I’ve seen performance wise compared to Nvidia.

  Perry Trest replied 11 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Perry Trest

  July 20, 2014 at 12:28 am

  I’m running two GTX 780 6GB GPUs in Cubix and for the cost of the 780s I’ve been very pleased with the performance. Check my system specs below . . .

  Perry Trest
  POSTDIGITAL, Inc.
  http://www.perrytrest.com

  OSX 10.9.4
  Davinci Resolve 11 Licensed
  MacPro 12core 2.66Ghz (2010)
  32GB RAM
  Slot 1 = Quadro 4000 GUI (Mac)
  Slot 2 = Cubix Xpander HIC
  Slot 3 = DeckLink SDI
  Slot 4 = Nitris DX HIC
  Internal 6TB soft RAID-0
  Euphonix Artist Color
  Flanders Scientific CM170W
  Cubix Xpander = GTX780 6GB GPU x 2

  Davinci Resolve 10 Lite
  iMac 27″ 2.7GHz Quadcore i5
  20GB RAM
  Blackmagic Mini Monitor
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  Paul Nordin

  July 26, 2014 at 9:28 pm

  Perry, has your 780 been EFI updated for the Mac? Just wondering if in your configuration you loose the boot screen.

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  Perry Trest

  July 27, 2014 at 1:30 am

  No, the 780s are not flashed for Mac.
  They live in the Cubix.
  The Quadro 4000 is used for GUI and is a Mac version, hence the boot screen.
  GPUs sitting in your Cubix can be for PC or Mac.

  Perry Trest
  POSTDIGITAL, Inc.
  http://www.perrytrest.com

  OSX 10.9.4
  Davinci Resolve 11 Licensed
  MacPro 12core 2.66Ghz (2010)
  32GB RAM
  Slot 1 = Quadro 4000 GUI (Mac)
  Slot 2 = Cubix Xpander HIC
  Slot 3 = DeckLink SDI
  Slot 4 = Nitris DX HIC
  Internal 6TB soft RAID-0
  Euphonix Artist Color
  Flanders Scientific CM170W
  Cubix Xpander = GTX780 6GB GPU x 2

  Davinci Resolve 10 Lite
  iMac 27″ 2.7GHz Quadcore i5
  20GB RAM
  Blackmagic Mini Monitor

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