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Nvidia Quadro 4000 On My New 12-core Mac?
Just trying to get things straight here.
I’m thinking of purchasing the Nvidia Quadro 4000 for my new 12-Core Mac running 6gb RAM (standard factory setting)
1. Is this the best option to choose from for a Mac Pro?
2. How much RAM should I add to help work with the Graphics Card?
3. Would Exporting Time be faster in general
4. What is this Elemental Accelerator?
I’m sorry. I’m just learning about this whole GPU thing, and everything is starting to get really confusing.
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you should have a minimum of 12gb of RAM
16gb is highly recommended.
I would do 24gb if I had a 12-core.
generally you get the best result when you have 2gb ram per core.The quadro 4000 is a great option to have to help things along for the price.
It will help when you do exports with downsizing hd to sd or 4k or 2k to 1080.
several effects in premiere are also accelerated.
definitely get one if your running premiere pro
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[Matthew Castro] “1. Is this the best option to choose from for a Mac Pro?”
Yes it is.[Matthew Castro] “2. How much RAM should I add to help work with the Graphics Card?”
RAM doesn’t affect the graphics card’s performance, per se, but to make a balanced system I’d add 2GB per core. 24GB RAM would be about right.[Matthew Castro] “3. Would Exporting Time be faster in general”
Encoding happens on the CPU primarily, but any CUDA accelerated effects (including scaling, frame rate, etc.) will be handled faster. With all that RAM, you’ll never be starving your cores, so that could be done more efficiently.[Matthew Castro] “4. What is this Elemental Accelerator?”
That was back in the CS4 era. In Premiere Pro CS5/CS5.5, we have the Mercury Playback Engine, which is built-in to Premiere Pro.Kevin Monahan
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