• Apple Final Cut Pro

  2.0 GHz mini server for FCPX?

  Posted by Tommo Smith on October 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm

  Do the extra cores in the server make up for the difference in GPU?
  (2.7 GHz Mini dual-core i7 with AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR5 memory) VS (2.0 GHz Mini Server quad – core i7 with Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor and 384MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory).

  Am I thinking about this configuration the right way? Is there
  any overhead given that the mini will be a server?

  thanks,

  Tommo

  Jim Giberti replied 14 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kevin Patrick

  October 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm

  This site has various benchmarks on various Macs, some with FCP X.

  https://barefeats.com/
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  Tommo Smith

  October 27, 2011 at 8:43 pm

  Which is the better trade off: the extra cores in the quadcorei7 mini server or a faster graphics of the non-server i7 mini.
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  Jim Giberti

  October 27, 2011 at 8:54 pm

  I can’t offer a comparison but I can say that I’ve been pushing X pretty hard for a week on an iMac i7 and haven’t had a single crash or glitch.
  Much of time it’s been running with Motion, PS and several other apps open.
  I have several iMacs running in my studios and bang for the buck, they are the best systems I’ve ever run.

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