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Need advise on The Quadro FX 4800 for MAC
I have Adobe CS6 with Premiere Pro and After Effects. I don’t have the GPU acceleration for Premiere. I have a lot of stuttering and dropping audio. The thought of multi cam editing concerns me.
I need to be fast and efficient. Rendering is hurting me in AE and most of the time in Premiere.
I have seen the demos and the specs on the The Quadro FX 4800 for the MAC and I am pretty impressed. My question is: Will it work in my current computer?
I would love to hear some unbiased opinions about this card.
This is my current machine:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro3,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 18 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHzThis is my current Card
ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 1024 MBI am also running a Fibre Channel Card to a server
Apple 2 Port 4Gbps Fibre Channel CardI am also using a Kona 3 card just for output to a LCD monitor
30 inch MAC Display
THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT !!!!!!!
Phil LeBeau
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8 Replies
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I have the Quadro 4000 and I have to say I couldn’t work without it.
It really speeds things up for me.Any reason you’re not getting the 4000?
It would appear the 4800 has half the cuda cores but costs more.
Plus its a double height (2-slot card) Do you have 2 slots free?
the 4000 is only single slot.
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I just did more research and I was wondering about the 4000. Is the 4800 an older card? After doing the research, I am thinking the 4000 is the better card for me.
Thanks for your reply!
Phil LeBeau
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You may want to check out the GTX 285 for Mac as well. On many tests I’ve seen it’s right there with if not better than the 4000 and can be had for around $250 on Ebay. I’ve got one and it’s great in OSX and Windows in Boot Camp. Barefeats.com has some benchmarks on it.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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I have the FX 4800 for MAC, It’s older then the 4000 and more expensive. The 4000 will do the job.
Mark Wilson
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I actually have a very similar set up and was considering upgrading to CS6. I am worried now, because I have the same computer with 3.2 GHz processors, but only 8 GB RAM. Plus I run my storage from inside, so it’s 3 SATA drives configured in RAID 0. It sounds I’m going to have a lot of stuttered video as well…
Will the Quadro make the difference, or will I need to upgrade the rest too…? -
It’s like doing remodling in a house, once you tear out a wall you find other problems that need to be fixed. I thought I had to go to MAC OS 10.7 but then I found this:
This is the minimum from the Quadro website
Mac OS x 10.6.5 or later with
MacPro3,1 (Early 2008), MacPro4,1
(Early 2009) or MacPro5,1 (Mid-2010)
Microsoft Windows through Boot CamFrom what I am hearing, the Quadro 4000 for MAC should make your system sing. If you are running off of local drives you should be good to go.
I am running through a fibre channel card that is running to a server at least 100 yards away – I really don’t know the exact distance but I am on the at least 6 floors above our main media servers.
For someone using local drives, I would think that the 4000 would be amazing!
Phil LeBeau
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If you want a really fast card go for the GTX 570. It’s much faster than the 4000. While not officially supported for the Mac you can find them on eBay that have been flashed to work with the Mac.
Greg Jones
Orlando,Fl.
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I used both 4800 , 4000 and 285. I thought the 285 added some instability to the system, I think at the time perhaps because the drivers were older. I settled on the 4000 and like it. I don’t think the 4800 is worth the extra money and is bigger and hotter.
I do think that experimenting with non-supported cards might yield some better performance, mostly in real time rendering of effects and on export, it does make a big difference.
I am in a quandary though because I have the same system as you, the 3,1 and really wanted to upgrade to the “New” Mac pros that were refreshed but the refresh is so lame… I’m actually contemplating a PC! Wow.
Still there is a bit of struggling and lagginess with AVCHD footage though it is usable. Ram helps as well.
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